Lead Data Engineer

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We are looking for a highly skilled and hands‑on Lead Data Engineer to join our Home Health Data Engineering team. In this role, you will serve as a technical leader responsible for designing, building, and optimizing our cloud‑based data platforms. You will play a key role in implementing scalable, secure, and reliable data solutions that support our business strategy and accelerate our cloud modernization efforts.

This position requires deep expertise in cloud data engineering—particularly Snowflake and Azure—and a strong ability to guide best practices, influence architectural decisions, and mentor engineers. We are looking for someone who is passionate about engineering excellence, automation, and building robust data systems that scale.

The Lead Data Engineer will design, build, and optimize cloud‑native data pipelines and platform components, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.

On a regular basis, you will perform the following tasks:

• Serve as a technical expert for Snowflake and Azure
  , leading hands‑on implementation across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and platform optimization.
• Develop and maintain API-driven integrations using Mule Soft
  , enabling secure, scalable connectivity between cloud and on‑prem systems.
• Drive the migration from on‑prem SQL Server environments to Snowflake
  , including re‑architecting pipelines, data models, and workflows for the cloud.
• Implement engineering best practices
  , including CI/CD for data, infrastructure‑as‑code, version control, testing frameworks, and observability.
• Independently troubleshoot complex data and platform issues
  , identifying root causes and designing effective long‑term solutions.
• Collaborate with data architects, analysts, and business partners to translate requirements into robust, production‑ready solutions.
• Mentor and support data engineers
  , providing technical guidance, code reviews, and thought leadership to elevate engineering standards.
• Optimize data models, storage patterns, and compute usage to ensure cost‑efficient and high‑performance operations.
• Partner with IT, security, and governance teams to ensure compliance, data quality, and secure handling of sensitive healthcare data.
• Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and cloud capabilities that enhance our data platform and engineering productivity.

• 8+ years’ extensive hands‑on experience with Snowflake
  , including performance tuning, data modeling, RBAC, tasks, streams, and secure data sharing.
• 8 years’ strong expertise in Azure cloud services
  , such as Data Factory, Databricks, Functions, Storage, Key Vault, and Azure Dev Ops.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python
  , and modern ETL/ELT frameworks.
• Experience working with Mule Soft for API‑driven integrations, data movement, and connecting cloud and on‑prem systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git‑based workflows, and infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform, Bicep, or similar).
• Strong understanding of data architecture, distributed systems, and cloud platform engineering
  .
• Ability to work independently
  , take ownership of complex technical initiatives, and drive them to completion.
• Demonstrated strength as a creative and analytical problem solver
  , capable of navigating ambiguity and designing effective solutions.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, influence design decisions, and mentor engineers.
• Experience working with healthcare data is a plus.

• Snowflake
• Azure (ADF, Databricks, Functions, Storage, Dev Ops)
• Python
• Mulesoft
• CI/CD tooling
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code

• Minimum download speed of 25 Mbps and upload speed of 10 Mbps recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
• Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.
• Associates living in California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi‑weekly payment for their internet expense.
• Telephones equipment will be provided to meet the business requirements.
• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing…