Data Engineering Systems Engineering Scientist
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The Data Engineering Systems Engineering Scientist elicits systems scope and requirements from stakeholders and develops and evaluates systems designs, with emphasis on data acquisition, processing, and retention. The role supports systems through definition, design, implementation, integration, and deployment, while coordinating with stakeholders, guiding project schedules, conducting engineering evaluations, and mentoring staff.
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Full job description
Elicit systems scope and requirements from stakeholders for use in systems designs, with emphasis on data acquisition, processing, and retentionDevelop and evaluate systems design, including data models, pipelines, storage, components, interactions, and interfacesCommunicate work process, products, and results, including documentation, written reports, and briefs presented to stakeholdersParticipate in Agile process, backlog management, and project decomposition into components and actionable units of workCoordinate with and provide support to stakeholders throughout the life-cycle of the systems definition, design, implementation, integration, and deploymentPerform engineering estimates, guide project schedules, and identify dependenciesConduct engineering evaluations, such as trade studies, reliability analysis, functional analysis, and risk analysis assessmentsMentoring of staff including junior engineering staff, technicians, and studentsOther duties as assigned
How this job compares
Set against the 2,496 open Data Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$104–202K/yr112 salary ranges
- US median$45–46/hr62 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 169 open Data Engineering jobs in Texas and 2,496 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Data Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 8 years (2,169 postings).
- Education
- 1,035 of the 2,496 open Data Engineering jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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