
Data Engineer
Empassion Health
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $160,000 per year
About the role
- Partner with teams across the business and external partners to understand data needs and deliver reliable pipelines and models that solve real problems.
- Build and maintain scalable ingestion and egress pipelines in Airflow and dbt Cloud, ensuring high quality, automated data flows across cloud environments.
- Implement unit tests and monitoring to guarantee data integrity and reproducibility.
- Model and transform and structure healthcare datasets into usable formats that power data science models, and other reporting marts.
- Enhance and scale data models with SQL and dbt, ensuring precision and adaptability for new partnerships.
- Write Python code for Apache Airflow DAGs, components and utilities that orchestrate and monitor data workflows. Build complex pipelines that enable flexible scheduling, conditional logic, and smooth integration across multiple data sources.
Requirements
- 2+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering with proven ability to build pipelines and scalable workflows.
- Strong SQL skills for querying large, complex datasets.
- Proficiency in Python for data engineering tasks (transformations, APIs, automation).
- Experience with cloud data warehouses and storage (GCP preferred: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Composer; AWS/Azure equivalents acceptable).
- Hands on experience with dbt or similar data modeling tools.
- Comfort working in collaborative dev/staging/prod environments, partnering with Product and Tech to safely test, launch, and anticipate the impact of new changes.
- Curiosity about operational workflows and a drive to partner with non-technical teams, ensuring data and reporting align with how the business actually runs.
- A proactive, problem-solving mindset and ability to thrive in fast-paced, iterative environments.
- Strong communication skills to collaborate with analysts, engineers, and business stakeholders.
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Bonus opportunities
- Equity grants for qualifying roles
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringanalytics engineeringSQLPythondata modelingApache Airflowdbtdata transformationdata pipelinesunit testing
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationcuriosityproactivityadaptabilitydriveinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillsteamwork