Interwell Health

Interwell Health

Staff Data Engineer

Remote, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 91 days ago
PythonDatabricksAzureCI/CDMachine LearningSparkdbtData EngineeringComplianceRoadmappingUnityHIPAAEpicHL7/FHIREHR/EMRLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringPublic Speaking

About the role

  • Reporting to the Director of Data Engineering, the Staff Data Engineer serves as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping, scaling, and governing our modern data ecosystem.
  • Our Tech Stack: Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Factory), Azure, dbt, Python, PySpark, Spark SQL.
  • We value our differences and learn from each other.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve a scalable, secure, cloud‑native lakehouse platform leveraging Databricks, Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Factory), and dbt.
  • Lead design reviews and guide teams in adopting scalable architectural patterns.
  • Drive long‑term platform strategy and evaluate emerging technologies.
  • Develop modular ingestion, quality, lineage, metadata, and observability frameworks that scale across domains.
  • Implement HIPAA‑aligned access patterns and secure handling of PHI.
  • Lead Cross functional initiatives that modernize and unify the organization's data ecosystem.
  • Drive roadmap planning, platform evolution, and long - term data strategy.
  • Advanced data platform architecture and Lakehouse design expertise.
  • Demonstrated ability to design modular, extensible frameworks and guide the long-term evolution of enterprise data platforms.
  • If there is a better way, we will create it.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in data engineering.
  • 2+ years operating in a senior or staff level engineering role.
  • Deep hands-on proficiency with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, dbt, and Python.
  • Hands on experience with Data Engineering, Data Factory, Lakehouse, OneLake.
  • Experience working in HIPAA regulated environments and handling PHI.
  • Experience with platform reliability, CI/CD for data pipelines, and infrastructure as code.

Nice to have

  • Proven ability to design and operate largescale cloud data platforms (Azure preferred).on experience with

Skills

  • Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Factory), Azure, dbt, Python, PySpark, Spark SQL.

Benefits

  • Deep experience with Databricks, Python, dbt, and Microsoft Fabric, along with strong fluency in healthcare data and compliance standards, is essential.
  • Design and implement batch and streaming data pipelines for healthcare data sources (EHR, claims, HL7/FHIR, APIs, flat files, databases)
  • Produce clean, analytics‑ready datasets and data models for BI, analytics, and machine learning workloads.
  • Partner with product managers, data scientists, analysts, clinicians, and business stakeholders to translate healthcare data needs into scalable solutions.
  • Healthcare data fluency, including regulated data handling and compliance.

Company info

  • We are on a mission to help people and we know the work we do changes their lives.
  • So, if our mission speaks to you, join us!

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