Optimizing business performance through people, data, tech & analytics
Lead Data Engineer
Location
Maryland
Posted
4 days ago
Salary
$150K - $160K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Lead Data Engineer
Blend360
• Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines supporting enterprise healthcare analytics and reporting use cases • Lead automation efforts across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and operational monitoring workflows • Develop and maintain ingestion frameworks for structured and semi-structured healthcare data sources • Build and expand semantic data layers within GCP and BigQuery to support consistent, trusted business reporting and analytics consumption • Design scalable ELT/ETL workflows leveraging modern cloud-native architecture patterns • Partner closely with architects, analytics teams, and business stakeholders to translate data requirements into scalable technical solutions • Optimize BigQuery performance, partitioning, and cost management strategies • Implement engineering best practices for testing, observability, reliability, and deployment automation • Support data governance, data quality, and metadata management initiatives across the platform • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across delivery teams
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering or cloud data platform development
- Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), particularly: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer, Dataflow
- Experience designing and building scalable data ingestion and pipeline automation frameworks
- Strong understanding of semantic layer development and dimensional modeling concepts
- Advanced SQL and Python development skills
- Experience with ETL/ELT pipeline design and orchestration
- Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and cloud engineering best practices
- Strong understanding of data quality, observability, and operational reliability principles
- Experience working with healthcare data ecosystems and regulated enterprise environments (preferred)
- Familiarity with healthcare data standards or payer/provider analytics platforms (preferred)
- Exposure to dbt, Looker, or semantic modeling frameworks is a plus (preferred)
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401K
- PTO
- paid holidays
- commuter benefits
- spending accounts
- life insurance
- disability coverage
- EAPs
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