Software Engineer, Ingestion & Streaming

Datavant Ireland; Galway; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive, equitable salary

Comprehensive benefits

Pension contribution

Flexible, Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Datavant Ireland, Galway-based R&D technology center, is hiring a data engineering professional to design, build, and operate ingestion pipelines for healthcare data. The role focuses on shifting to a platform-oriented approach, enabling product engineers to onboard new sources with safe, scalable patterns.

You will work with Snowflake, Iceberg, and Databricks, leveraging AI-native tooling to accelerate delivery while maintaining security and observability.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or data-focused software engineering.
• 1+ years Terraform or equivalent IaC for production workloads.
• Strong SQL skills and data warehousing concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and a workflow orchestrator (Airflow/MWAA).
• Experience building self-service tooling or platforms for engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate ingestion frameworks into Snowflake, Iceberg, and Databricks.
• Own and evolve ingestion stack (AWS DMS, MWAA, Fivetran, homegrown tooling).
• Develop self-service tooling for onboarding new data sources.
• Write and review Terraform for ingestion infra (networking, IAM, compute).
• Collaborate with product, data, and analytics teams to pick ingestion patterns.

Skills

AWS networking

Terraform IaC

SQL

Python

CI/CD

AI-native tooling

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Airflow / MWAA

Fivetran

DMS

Iceberg

GitHub

Job description

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

Join our Data & ML Platform organization on the Ingestion & Streaming team. We own the movement layer of Datavant’s data platform: batch and streaming pipelines, change data capture, document intake, and the self-service frameworks product teams use to land new sources into Snowflake, our Iceberg-backed lakehouse, and Databricks. Most data moves into the platform; some moves back out. Our job is to make both safe, fast, observable, and boring.

This role is for an engineer who thinks like a platform builder first. We are shifting from a service-oriented posture (“we’ll build the pipeline for you”) to a platform-oriented one (“here is the paved path to build it yourself, safely”), though the team still builds pipelines directly when the situation calls for it. You will be central to that shift, designing the frameworks, tooling, and guardrails that scale how Datavant onboards new sources, and rolling up your sleeves for hands‑on ingestion work when there isn’t yet a paved path. AI fluency is a baseline expectation here. You should already be using Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent tools as a core part of your daily engineering workflow, have opinions about how they make a team faster, and know how to apply them responsibly when PHI and other sensitive data are in scope.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and operate the ingestion frameworks that pull data from operational databases, vendor APIs, document streams, and third‑party feeds into Snowflake, Iceberg, and Databricks
• Own and evolve the ingestion stack (AWS DMS, MWAA / Airflow, Fivetran, and the homegrown tooling on top) and design new patterns for API sources that don’t fit a managed connector
• Build self‑service tooling so product engineers can onboard new sources without becoming experts in our infrastructure
• Write and review the Terraform behind our ingestion infrastructure: AWS networking, IAM, compute, and data services
• Partner with product, data, and analytics teams to pick the right ingestion pattern for each source (CDC, batch, API, streaming) and stand it up end‑to‑end
• Lead production troubleshooting and incident response, and turn each incident into a durable platform fix
• Raise the bar on engineering quality, observability, cost discipline, and security in everything the team ships
• Mentor mid‑career engineers and pull peers along through code review, pairing, and design feedback

What You Will Bring To The Table

• 2+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or data-focused software engineering
• 2+ years of hands‑on AWS with real strength in networking (VPC, subnets, routing, PrivateLink, security groups), IAM (roles, policies, permission boundaries), and the data services this role touches, plus the judgment to know when to reach for what
• 1+ years writing production Terraform or equivalent IaC, with experience owning modules, reasoning about state and blast radius, and shipping infrastructure changes safely
• 1+ years building self‑service tooling, internal platforms, or paved-path frameworks consumed by other engineers
• Strong SQL skills and the ability to reason about how data physically lives in a warehouse or lake
• Production experience with Snowflake (or an equivalent cloud data warehouse) and a workflow orchestrator (Airflow / MWAA preferred)
• Hands‑on experience with at least one ingestion approach: CDC tooling (e.g., DMS, Debezium), managed connectors (e.g., Fivetran, Airbyte), or rolling your own pipelines for API sources
• Solid CI/CD discipline in GitHub or equivalent: branching, code review, automated checks, repeatable deployment
• AI-native working style: daily use of Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent, with views on how they make a team faster
• Working knowledge of Python is expected; mastery isn’t the bar
• Clear written and verbal communication, especially in async, remote settings

Bonus Points For

• Direct production experience with Iceberg or another open table format, especially bridging Snowflake and Databricks
• Hands‑on Databricks or Spark
• Kubernetes experience
• Snowflake certification(s)
• Azure experience (we’re primarily AWS, but our customers and acquisitions aren’t always)
• In‑depth experience integrating data systems with managed identity platforms, particularly via SCIM (SailPoint a plus)
• Prior experience in healthcare or another highly regulated industry like Finance
• Prior DBA, SRE, or DRE work operating production data systems under pressure

Join Our Team at Datavant Ireland - A Galway-Based R&D Technology Center

Datavant Ireland is an innovative R&D technology center based in Galway, dedicated to solving complex technology challenges with a purpose. We are looking for talented technical professionals who are product‑minded and eager to make an impact. If you are passionate about developing cutting‑edge solutions and want to be part of a growing team, we invite you to explore the exciting career opportunities at Datavant.

Careers at Datavant offer the opportunity to apply your technology and problem‑solving skills toward a vision that every healthcare decision is powered by the right data, at the right time, in the right format.

We’re looking for collaborative problem‑solvers, curious learners, and thoughtful builders who are excited to make an impact. We value diverse experiences, perspectives, and approaches to solving challenges, and we believe the best outcomes come from teams that learn from and support one another.

We provide team members with a robust total compensation package that includes:

• Competitive, equitable salary.
• Comprehensive benefits.
• Pension contribution.
• Flexible, Hybrid work environment.

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high‑performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive.

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