Sr. Data Platform Engineer
Role Overview
Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise data infrastructure for analytics and decision-making.
Build scalable data pipelines and ETL programs and support data integrity, reliability, and compliance in a regulated environment.
Create custom software components, maintain metadata repositories, and improve data standardization and quality.
Key Skills for This Role
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Position summary
Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise data infrastructure for analytics and decision-making.
Build scalable data pipelines and ETL programs and support data integrity, reliability, and compliance in a regulated environment.
Create custom software components, maintain metadata repositories, and improve data standardization and quality.
Key responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable pipelines and ETL programs integrating complex internal and external data sources.
- Write and optimize SQL and Python queries for data processing and query performance.
- Maintain metadata repositories and enterprise data integrity, accuracy, and usability.
- Implement data standardization, reliability, and quality improvements across platforms.
- Troubleshoot complex analytics and database management problems in production and development.
- Maintain query libraries and custom software components for analytics and reporting.
- Recommend and implement tools, technologies, and practices to improve data engineering and system performance.
- Support governance, security, and regulatory compliance through data quality checks and documentation.
- Align data solutions with enterprise architecture and business priorities through cross-functional collaboration.
- Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineering teams.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Typically requires 7+ years of relevant professional experience in data engineering or related fields.
- Hands-on experience with advanced ETL development, SQL/Python scripting, and multi-platform data integration.
- Expertise in data pipelines and ETL; advanced SQL and Python; strong data modeling, entity relationship, and metadata management knowledge.
- Familiarity with Hadoop, Apache Kafka, and distributed file systems such as HDFS.
- Healthcare or other regulated-industry experience is preferred.
Base pay
- The stated base pay range is $99,100–$132,100; the description gives no pay cadence.
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