Senior Data Engineer

Source Meridian; Colombia; On-site; COP 60,000,000 - 120,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent contract

Learning environment

Health benefits

Competitive salary

Job summary

Source Meridian is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing team in Colombia. You will be the first engineer on a new data platform for the specialty pharmacy market, setting technical standards and guiding junior engineers.

You'll build and maintain ETL pipelines on AWS (Glue, S3, IAM, Step Functions), work with Snowflake data sharing, and ensure PHI handling, de-identification, encryption, and audit trails compliant with healthcare regulations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Strong SQL and Python.
• Hands-on AWS Glue and data stack (S3, IAM, Step Functions).
• Experience with healthcare data and HIPAA considerations.
• Strong English communication and leadership in teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical anchor for a new team and set coding, testing, and pipeline standards for future hires.
• Mentor and onboard intermediate and junior engineers who join later.
• Build, enhance and maintain ETL pipelines on AWS, primarily with Glue, Python, and SQL.
• Customize pipelines for each customer implementation and ingest/normalize partner data.
• Deliver curated data to customers via Snowflake and Snowflake data sharing.

Skills

SQL

Python

Leadership

English

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS Glue

Snowflake

S3

IAM

Step Functions

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join Source Meridian.

About Source Meridian

Source Meridian is a development software company that works to solve the industry’s most challenging problems in healthcare practices. We are laser focused on specific technologies in the healthcare and life science industries: Healthcare technology, artificial intelligence, and healthcare interoperability.

About The Role

Our client runs a data platform for the specialty pharmacy market and is standing up a new data engineering team to onboard customers. You'll be the first engineer on that team: the senior anchor who sets the technical standards and guides the intermediate and junior engineers who join after you.

You’ll build and enhance ETL code on AWS that ingests partner data, transforms it reliably, and delivers it to customers, including through Snowflake data sharing.

What You’ll Do

• Act as the technical anchor for a new team: set the coding, testing and pipeline standards later hires will follow
• Mentor and onboard the intermediate and junior engineers who join after you
• Build, enhance and maintain ETL pipelines on AWS, primarily with AWS Glue, Python and SQL
• Customize existing pipelines for each new customer implementation
• Ingest and normalize data files from pharmacy and healthcare data partners
• Deliver curated data to customers through Snowflake and Snowflake data sharing
• Design pipelines that handle protected health information safely: access controls, encryption, de-identification and audit trails
• Work with Business Analysts and client stakeholders to turn data specs into working pipelines, and explain technical trade-offs clearly

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience building and owning production ETL/ELT pipelines
• Strong SQL and Python
• Hands-on AWS Glue experience, plus the surrounding AWS data stack (S3, IAM, Step Functions or similar orchestration)
• Working experience with Snowflake
• Experience working with healthcare data in production
• Understanding of healthcare data regulation (HIPAA in the US) and how it shapes engineering: PHI handling, minimum-necessary access, de-identification, encryption and audit logging
• Strong communication skills in English: explains technical decisions to US client stakeholders and documents work clearly
• Track record of mentoring engineers or setting technical direction on a team

Nice to Have

• Snowflake data sharing (Secure Data Sharing, Snowflake Marketplace) or Delta Sharing
• Specialty pharmacy data experience (dispense, patient status, hub and claims data)
• Experience with partner file feeds (SFTP, flat files, schema validation)
• Experience as the first or founding engineer on a new team

Soft Skills

• Strong and empathetic leadership.
• Proven client-facing experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong expectation management abilities.
• Strategic mindset with a solution-oriented approach and strong decision-making skills.

What We Offer

• Permanent contract
• Learning and continuous growth environment
• Benefits package focused on health and well-being
• Competitive salary based on experience