Virtasant

Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform

Virtasant

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSBigQueryDockerKafkaPythonSparkSQL

About the role

  • Own and scale a modern healthcare data platform
  • Build core services, automation, and observability
  • Improve pipeline reliability and observability
  • Partner closely with data engineering, analytics, and DevOps
  • Architect and build core services, automation tools, and integrations that power our client's data ecosystem

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in data engineering or software development
  • Strong programming skills in Python & SQL
  • At least one major data platform (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar)
  • Develop tooling for schema evolution, data contracts, and developer self-service
  • Deep experience with streaming, distributed compute, or S3-based table formats (Spark, Kafka, Iceberg/Delta/Hudi)
  • Experience with schema governance, metadata systems, and data quality frameworks
  • Understanding of orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, etc.)
  • Solid grasp of CI/CD and Docker
  • At least 2 years of experience in AWS
  • Experience with building data pipelines using dbt
Benefits
  • Totally remote within the contiguous United States
  • Stable, long-term independent contract agreement
  • Work hours - US Eastern time office hours
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLSnowflakeBigQueryRedshiftSparkKafkaIcebergDeltaHudi