Principal Data Engineer
Trella Health
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Pennsylvania, Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
ApacheETLKafkaPySparkPythonSparkSQL
About the role
- Design, implement, and maintain data models, pipelines, and architecture to support current and future product needs – focusing on healthcare datasets such as claims, EHR, BCDA, and CCLF.
- Design processes to consolidate data from multiple sources into a single source of truth.
- Contribute to data governance policies, standards, and procedures to ensure data quality, security, HIPAA and other regulatory compliance.
- Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks in ETL/ELT pipelines – ensuring the long term scalability of pipelines.
- Work closely with Data Scientists, Engineers, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into high-value, technical solutions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience
- Minimum of 3+ years demonstrated technical leadership
- Python
- Advanced SQL
- Apache Spark and PySpark
- Apache Kafka or other streaming technologies
- Data Modeling & Warehousing Concepts
- OLAP vs OLTP
- Normalized vs Denormalized data, one big table
- Medallion Architecture
- Multi-Tenant Architecture
- Experience working with dbt or SQLMesh
- Experience with at least one major data platform and warehousing tool such as Databricks or Snowflake
- Role based access control, audit logging, and data governance
- Knowledge of data security, encryption at rest/in transit, and tokenization
- Prior experience working with PHI/PII and experience working in audited environments
- HIPAA, SOC2, and HITRUST compliance requirements and implementation
- Healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7)
- EHR operational data and claims data processing experience
Benefits
- Health, Dental, Vision & Voluntary Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Bonus Plans
- 401k Retirement Savings
- Flexible PTO & 10 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Work Hours
- Equity Shares
- Paid Leave Programs
- Marketplace for discounted retail and entertainment
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Hard skills
PythonAdvanced SQLApache SparkPySparkApache KafkaData ModelingData WarehousingETLdbtSQLMesh
Soft skills
technical leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingdata governance
Certifications
HIPAA complianceSOC2 complianceHITRUST compliance