Senior Data Engineer - AI Pipelines for Regulated Data

EY; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Paid time off

Medical/dental coverage

401(k) plan

Job summary

EY is seeking a Data Engineer to join its Advanced Forward Engineering (AFE) team. You will embedded in delivery pods with client stakeholders to ensure data is accessible, governed, and production-ready for AI-enabled solutions in regulated environments.

In this role you’ll design data ingestion, transformations, and interfaces, own data readiness, and collaborate with Forward Deployed Software Engineers to deliver reliable, compliant data flows across dev, test, and production environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, or analytics engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience building and operating data pipelines in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Experience integrating with relational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, or enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with data modeling, transformation frameworks, and API-based data access.
• Experience working under data governance, security, or compliance constraints.
• Ability to collaborate closely with application engineers and operate in delivery-focused teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the data owner within an AFE delivery pod, ensuring data readiness does not block or delay delivery outcomes.
• Design and implement data ingestion, transformation, and access patterns that integrate AI systems with client and legacy data sources.
• Ensure data pipelines comply with governance, security, lineage, and access control requirements mandated by regulated environments.
• Implement data interfaces and contracts that satisfy DevOps Specification (DS) data requirements for supported deployment templates.
• Partner closely with Forward Deployed Software Engineer roles to enable AI workflows, retrieval, and analytics that are reliable in production.
• Diagnose and resolve data quality, schema drift, and integration issues encountered in real deployment scenarios.
• Contribute reusable data patterns and implementation learnings back to the AFE integration core to improve repeatability across pods.
• Support validation, testing, and deployment activities to ensure data flows behave correctly and consistently across environments (dev, test, pre-prod, prod).

Skills

Data pipelines

Data governance

SQL databases

Regulatory environments

Communication

Problem-solving

Data modeling

Cloud data engineering

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Tools

Postgres

Oracle

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Azure Data Factory

Kafka

Flink

Spark

Job description

EY is seeking a Data Engineer to join its Advanced Forward Engineering (AFE) team. You will embedded in delivery pods with client stakeholders to ensure data is accessible, governed, and production-ready for AI-enabled solutions in regulated environments.

In this role you’ll design data ingestion, transformations, and interfaces, own data readiness, and collaborate with Forward Deployed Software Engineers to deliver reliable, compliant data flows across dev, test, and production environments.