Akumin®

Senior Data Engineer

Akumin®

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New YorkPennsylvaniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $125,000 - $140,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Serve as the initial technical point of contact for the migration of our enterprise data platform into Google Cloud Lakehouse.
  • Take point on the initial cloud implementation and Medallion architecture.
  • Share knowledge and establish best practices for HL7/Google Cloud implementations.
  • Develop complex SQL queries for data extraction, manipulation, and reporting and transformation technologies.
  • Design and implement robust ETL/ELT pipelines using custom-tooling (Python/Google) and off-the shelf tooling with focus on monitoring, supportability, and resource stewardship.
  • Contribute to and leverage coding standards and best practices to ensure efficient and re-usable services and components.
  • Architect, implement and deploy new data models and data processes in production.
  • Build data pipelines which acquire, cleanse, transform and publish data from a wide variety of sources.
  • Assemble large, complex data sets which meets functional and non-functional business requirements.
  • Partner with data asset managers, architects, and development leads to ensure technical solution provides data which is fit for use and in line with architecture blueprints.
  • Identify, document, design, and implement internal process improvements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Data Engineering with expert-level production experience in Google Cloud Platform.
  • Mastery of BigQuery architecture, performance tuning, and cost management.
  • Hands-on experience implementing and managing GCP HL7/FHIR Stores.
  • Expertise in parsing, flattening, and modeling hierarchical clinical data for downstream analytics.
  • Proven track record designing and implementing Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) frameworks in a cloud-native environment.
  • Advanced proficiency with dbt (data build tool).
  • Demonstrated experience performing technical audits and handoffs from external contractors to internal operations.
  • Proven ability to upskill and assist a team of engineers in adopting new technologies (HL7/GCP) through documentation, patterns, and collaborative development.
  • Elite BigQuery SQL (JSON parsing/Analytical functions) and Python for orchestration and automation.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLETLELTPythonBigQuerydbtdata modelingdata transformationdata extractiondata pipeline
Soft Skills
collaborationknowledge sharingprocess improvementtechnical auditingteam assistance