Hybrid Senior Data Engineer – Data Operations

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About the role

  • Senior Data Engineer responsible for building and maintaining scalable data ingestion systems for healthcare data. Optimizing data pipelines and collaborating with analytics engineers in a fast-growing environment.

Responsibilities

  • The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining scalable data ingestion infrastructure and operational systems.
  • Develop and optimize scalable data ingestion pipelines from platform sources (RDS, DynamoDB) into Snowflake.
  • Building event-driven pipelines using Kinesis, Airbyte, or other open-source frameworks to handle high-volume healthcare data.
  • Implementing and maintaining a staging-layer architecture that supports the broader medallion (staging → intermediate → marts) structure.
  • Creating configuration-driven, containerized toolsets (Docker/Kubernetes) to ensure data solutions are portable and maintainable.
  • Ensuring data reliability by building comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and automated testing for all ingestion processes.
  • Collaborating with analytics engineers to streamline the flow of data for dbt transformation.
  • Applying software engineering best practices, including modular design and test-driven development, to all data infrastructure.
  • Refactoring existing ingestion processes to improve performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
  • Mentoring mid-level and junior engineers through code reviews and sharing best practices in data operations.

Requirements

  • 4-6+ years of professional experience in data engineering with a focus on data ingestion and infrastructure.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL, with a track record of building production-grade data pipelines.
  • Strong experience with ingestion tools such as Kinesis, Airbyte, Kafka, or similar frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake and moving data from operational databases (RDS, DynamoDB) to cloud data warehouses.
  • Solid understanding of AWS services (S3, Lambda, Step Functions, RDS).
  • Experience with containerization (Docker) and deploying maintainable systems.
  • Knowledge of ELT patterns, specifically supporting analytics engineering workflows and dbt.
  • Experience with CDC (Change Data Capture) and incremental processing methodologies.
  • Detail-oriented mindset regarding data privacy and compliance (HIPAA experience is a plus).
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across data science and engineering teams.

Benefits

  • Outstanding Team and Culture
  • Making a Proven Difference in Healthcare
  • Market Opportunity
  • Dramatic Growth

Job title

Senior Data Engineer – Data Operations

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$150,000 - $170,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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