Remote Senior Data Engineer: Pipelines & Governed Data

GDH; North Carolina; Remote; USD 72,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

GDH is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines in a secure, regulated cloud environment. This fully remote role collaborates with engineering, analytics, and data science teams to deliver governed, analysis-ready data solutions.

You will contribute to Terraform IaC, CI/CD for production deployments, data governance, and instrumentation of data quality and lineage.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining production data pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks and Unity Catalog.
• Strong proficiency with Python and SQL.
• Experience developing ETL or ELT solutions and scalable data transformation workflows.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling principles and best practices.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms; Azure preferred, with AWS or Google Cloud also applicable.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based version control, and production deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with data governance, cataloging, lineage, and access-control technologies.
• Experience with orchestration and transformation tools such as Airflow or dbt.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline solutions.
• Develop governed, analysis-ready datasets from raw, structured, unstructured, and synthetic data sources.
• Enhance and scale the data platform in alignment with established architectural standards and engineering best practices.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and support CI/CD pipelines for production deployments.
• Monitor data quality, pipeline reliability, and platform performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline, integration, and operational issues.
• Implement data governance, cataloging, lineage, and access-control practices.
• Support data science, analytics, and machine learning teams by delivering reliable datasets and supporting tools.
• Follow applicable security, privacy, data handling, and compliance requirements.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation for data pipelines, processes, architecture, and platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams to support platform delivery and continuous improvement.

Skills

Python

SQL

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

CI/CD

Azure

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Airflow

dbt

Databricks

Job description

GDH is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines in a secure, regulated cloud environment. This fully remote role collaborates with engineering, analytics, and data science teams to deliver governed, analysis-ready data solutions.

You will contribute to Terraform IaC, CI/CD for production deployments, data governance, and instrumentation of data quality and lineage.