Principal Data Engineer at Oracle
Nashville, TN
$114,600–$234,600from the description
Jul 22, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor data engineering role focused on designing and building scalable ETL pipelines, data infrastructure, and reusable data products. The position also owns data governance policy, PII/PHI compliance, and data quality validation, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams in an agile environment. Suits an experienced data engineer comfortable working both independently and across teams on complex pipeline architecture.
Senior level · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting is for Oracle's IC4 career level (individual contributor, senior band), which aligns with a Senior engineer scope — mentoring junior members, leading governance design, and owning architecture reviews, but no people-management duties.
No specific named technologies, languages, frameworks, or cloud platforms are mentioned anywhere in the posting. All skills extracted are derived from the core functional responsibilities stated as hard requirements (ETL, data pipeline architecture, data governance, data validation, PII/PHI compliance, agile). There are no preferred/nice-to-have technology sections either.
The role sits between 15-1243 (Database/Data Architects — pipeline and data infrastructure design) and 15-1252 (Software Developers — building and debugging scalable data solutions in an agile environment). 15-1243 was chosen as primary because the dominant emphasis is on designing and architecting data infrastructure, pipelines, governance, and storage solutions rather than general application software development.
Location is not specified in the posting beyond 'US-based'; no CBSA or state could be determined. The compensation range is stated as US-specific.
Compensation range of $114,600–$234,600/year may include bonus and equity eligibility as noted in the posting.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): data pipeline architecture, data governance.
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