Lead Data Engineer

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Austin, Texas (Remote US) / $175000 - $200000 annum

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SALARY:

$175000 - $200000

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LOCATION

Austin, Texas (Remote US)

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Lead Data Engineer

Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)

A growing healthcare technology company is looking for a Lead Data Engineer to take on a hands-on technical leadership role within its data engineering organization. The company builds SaaS analytics and workflow solutions that help public-sector healthcare organizations make better use of complex data to improve operations, oversight, and outcomes.

This is an opportunity for an experienced data engineer who enjoys tackling complex, ambiguous problems while still staying close to the code. You'll help shape data architecture and engineering practices, mentor other engineers, and build scalable capabilities that make customer data integrations increasingly automated, reliable, and repeatable.

What You'll Do

  • Lead complex data engineering initiatives from technical design through implementation, testing, and delivery.
  • Design and build scalable ELT pipelines, data models, transformations, and reusable data-processing capabilities.
  • Lead the onboarding and integration of complex, imperfect customer data from diverse sources.
  • Build automated data profiling, validation, and quality-monitoring capabilities.
  • Help modernize data architecture, tooling, workflows, and engineering practices to improve scalability, observability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Evaluate new architectures and technologies, including opportunities to leverage AI-assisted tools and automation within data engineering workflows.
  • Provide technical mentorship and help establish engineering standards, best practices, and architectural direction.
  • Identify recurring customer data challenges and turn them into reusable backend services, frameworks, and product capabilities.
  • Partner with technical and business stakeholders to communicate architectural decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations.
  • Help develop data capability roadmaps and recommend technical investments and priorities.

What We're Looking For

  • 10+ years of relevant engineering experience with significant hands-on data engineering expertise.
  • Strong technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers, guiding architecture, and establishing engineering best practices.
  • Experience managing and developing a small engineering team.
  • Deep hands-on experience with SQL and Python.
  • Strong experience designing and building scalable ELT pipelines, data models, and transformations.
  • Experience with modern orchestration/transformation frameworks such as Airflow, Astronomer, Dagster, dbt, or Windmill.
  • Experience working across relational, MPP, and file-based data architectures.
  • Strong experience integrating complex or imperfect data and mapping it into standardized data models.
  • Experience building automated data quality, profiling, validation, and monitoring capabilities.
  • Experience designing and evolving scalable, reusable data platforms and leading significant architecture modernization efforts.
  • Experience applying AI-assisted technologies to improve data engineering workflows, processing, quality, or developer productivity.
  • Experience working with healthcare data.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to translate business requirements into thoughtful technical solutions.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without employer sponsorship.

Nice to Have

  • Experience developing technical or data capability roadmaps.
  • Experience modernizing legacy relational architectures into file-based, distributed, or cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience in a SaaS product environment, particularly where data engineering supports both customer implementations and reusable product capabilities.

Why Join?

This is a high-impact opportunity to influence not only the technical direction of a data engineering function, but also how data capabilities evolve into scalable products. You'll have significant ownership over architecture and engineering practices while remaining hands-on with challenging data problems.

The company offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k) with company match, company-paid life and disability insurance, generous PTO, and a vacation travel stipend.

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