Senior Data Engineer - Scalable ETL/ELT & Streaming

CEI; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CEI in Richmond, VA is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize enterprise data pipelines and ELT solutions. This role blends hands-on implementation with technical leadership for scalable data processing across analytics and AI/ML use cases.

The candidate will work in a hybrid environment, mentor teams, ensure data quality, security, and governance, and collaborate with governance, DataOps, and architecture groups to advance the data ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Hands-on data engineering with enterprise pipelines.
• Experience building ELT/ETL and streaming solutions.
• Strong SQL and data modeling capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end data pipelines and ETL/ELT solutions for analytics and AI/ML use cases.
• Develop scalable batch and streaming data workflows with low latency.
• Optimize data models, transformations, and performance.
• Prototype and integrate tooling to meet project requirements.
• Ensure pipelines are observability-ready with monitoring and alerts.
• Collaborate with governance, DataOps, and architecture teams.

Skills

Data pipelines

SQL

ETL/ELT

Streaming data

Kafka

Kinesis

Spark Streaming

Data modeling

Performance tuning

Monitoring

Security/governance

Education

Bachelors or higher

CS/IS/Math

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Spark Streaming

Job description

CEI in Richmond, VA is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize enterprise data pipelines and ELT solutions. This role blends hands-on implementation with technical leadership for scalable data processing across analytics and AI/ML use cases.

The candidate will work in a hybrid environment, mentor teams, ensure data quality, security, and governance, and collaborate with governance, DataOps, and architecture groups to advance the data ecosystem.