Senior Data Engineer
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Zócalo HealthHealthcare
Remote Work can be done from anywhere in the U.S.Full-TimeSenior
Salary$160,000 - $180,000 (per year)
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonSQLData modelingdbtDatabricksPySpark
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data or backend engineering roles with significant data platform responsibility
- Hands-on experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines and ingestion frameworks
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for data ingestion, processing, and transformation
- Experience with a cloud data platform; experience with AWS and Databricks (or a comparable Spark-based lakehouse) strongly preferred
- Experience building SQL-based transformation workflows; hands-on experience with dbt preferred
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including comfort reasoning about distributed systems and data processing at scale
- Ability to diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and data quality issues in complex systems
- Strong ownership mindset and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-growing environments
- Clear communicator able to partner effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience building dashboards or analytical outputs used by executives and frontline teams
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate production data pipelines across clinical, operational, and third-party systems using API-based ingestion, Change Data Capture (CDC), and event- or webhook-driven patterns
- Build and maintain transformation layers in dbt, including tests, documentation, and reusable models
- Develop and refine core analytical and longitudinal data models used across the company
- Implement testing, monitoring, and observability to ensure data quality, pipeline reliability, and system performance
- Apply strong engineering fundamentals to improve the scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency of data systems on AWS and Databricks
- Partner with Product to support metric definitions, outcome measurement, and reporting needs
- Partner with business, product, and engineering stakeholders to design and build intuitive data visualizations and dashboards that drive actionable insights and program visibility
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