Lead Data Engineer – Healthcare Data, Audience Applications

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and uphold the architecture for healthcare data, including interface contracts, ADRs, schemas, and a staged delivery plan.

• Oversee the ingestion and transformation processes across Snowflake, Athena/S3, MySQL, and authorized healthcare repositories, ensuring no duplication of shared platform functionalities.

• Collaborate with Data Cloud on certifying sources, establishing partner-feed contracts, validating identities, owning raw zones, and ensuring data availability SLAs.

• Create healthcare base/vertical models and published/governed views, incorporating row/member-level controls, account scoping, masking, and backward-compatible versioning.

• Establish SLOs and criteria for operational readiness; ensure that dashboards, alerts, runbooks, rollback paths, and incident ownership are established prior to release.

• Lead design and code reviews, mentor the Senior Data Engineer, and manage dependencies within the pod.

• Provide support for compliance evidence, conduct annual audits, enforce US data-residency regulations, and facilitate stoplight decisions: Start, Stop, or Requires CERT.

• Implement privacy-by-design principles across all systems that manage PHI/PII.

• Collaborate with Product and Data teams to convert healthcare requirements into scalable architectures.

• Promote engineering best practices in testing, CI/CD, code quality, and operational excellence.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8–10 years of software engineering experience with progressively increasing technical responsibility.

• Proficient in SQL and experienced in Python and Java; familiarity with batch and streaming patterns, orchestration, testing, and schema evolution.

• Demonstrated success in building and scaling data-intensive or distributed systems.

• Experience in regulated environments is preferred, particularly in healthcare.

• Strong skills in system design and architecture.

• Capability to lead technically while remaining actively involved in implementation.

• Excellent collaboration skills with engineering, product, and data teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Employee Equity

• Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance

And more!!