Senior Data Engineer: AWS ETL Lead for Healthcare Data

Source Meridian; Medellín; On-site; COP 120,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent contract

Growth environment

Health benefits

Competitive salary

Job summary

Source Meridian, a healthcare-focused software development company, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to lead a new data engineering team. You will design and enforce coding standards, mentor engineers, and own end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS, using Glue, Python and SQL.

You will ingest data from healthcare partners, deliver curated data via Snowflake, and ensure PHI handling, encryption and audit trails meet HIPAA requirements.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

SQL

Python

Mentoring

English communication

Tools

AWS Glue

Snowflake

S3

IAM

Step Functions

Job description

Source Meridian, a healthcare-focused software development company, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to lead a new data engineering team. You will design and enforce coding standards, mentor engineers, and own end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS, using Glue, Python and SQL.

You will ingest data from healthcare partners, deliver curated data via Snowflake, and ensure PHI handling, encryption and audit trails meet HIPAA requirements.