Lead Data Engineer

Company DescriptionBLEND
360 is an acclaimed, forward-thinking Data, Digital Marketing, & AI Solutions Company, dedicated to fueling remarkable outcomes for our Fortune 500 clients. Our trajectory is one of continuous expansion, emerging at the crossroads of cutting-edge analytics, data proficiency, technology, and digital marketing excellence.

Job Description We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to support a large-scale healthcare data platform initiative focused on modernizing data ingestion, automation, and semantic layer capabilities within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role will play a critical part in building scalable, reliable, and business-ready data solutions that enable enterprise analytics and reporting across the organization. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on engineering expertise, deep knowledge of cloud-native data platforms, and experience leading technical implementation efforts in complex enterprise healthcare environments.

What You’ll Do 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 Big Query 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 Big Query 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  Qualifications Required Skills Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), particularly:  Big Query Cloud  Storage Cloud Composer / orchestration tooling

Dataflow or modern ingestion frameworks  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 Experieng with AI driven workflows, and orchestration design patterns.

Preferred Experience Experience working with healthcare data ecosystems and regulated enterprise environments  Familiarity with healthcare data standards or payer/provider analytics platforms  Experience supporting enterprise BI and analytics initiatives  Exposure to dbt, Looker, or semantic modeling frameworks is a plus  Required Experience 7+ years of experience in data engineering or cloud data platform development  Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud data solutions in GCP environments  Experience leading technical work streams or mentoring engineering teams  Consulting or client-facing experience strongly preferred  What Makes You Successful You are passionate about building scalable and maintainable cloud-native data solutions  You balance hands-on engineering execution with technical leadership and collaboration  You communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders  You thrive in fast-paced, delivery-focused environments  You bring strong ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement mindset to your work  Additional Information The starting pay range for this role is $125,000 - $160,000.

Actual compensation within the range will be dependent on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, certifications, training, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range and determining factors for compensation are considered for each individual circumstance. BLEND
360 also offers a competitive benefits program to meet the health and financial well-being of our team and their families. You can look forward to a range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401K, PTO, paid…