Contract Senior Data Engineer - Remote/Hybrid Warehouse

Teal Health; United States; Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 172,000; Part time

Job summary

Teal Health is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the data warehouse foundation, pipelines, and semantic layer in Omni. You will work across backend systems, marketing platforms, and healthcare data streams to provide reliable, analysis-ready data for decision-making.

You will collaborate with Analytics to deliver trusted dashboards and enable cross-system insights. The role focuses on building scalable data models, ensuring data quality, and expanding integrations and data sources while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering.
• Strong SQL, including window functions, date logic, and complex joins across marketing, product, and operational data.
• Fluency in Postgres/Redshift/Snowflake-style SQL.
• Hands-on experience with dbt-core.
• Experience designing and developing a data warehouse using a layered staging → reporting architecture.
• Experience working with Fivetran-landed data, and comfort digging into each source’s raw schema quirks.
• A habit of clear documentation and organized, ticket-driven work.

Responsibilities

• Own Teal’s data warehouse architecture, performance, reliability, and documentation.
• Manage and extend Fivetran ingestion across source systems and troubleshoot issues.
• Build and maintain the dbt transformation layer from staging to reporting for multiple domains.
• Own the Omni data layer definitions to enable cross-system questions.
• Partner with analytics to ensure dashboards sit on a consistent data layer.
• Handle integrations, connect new data sources, support partner data flows.
• Write tests and documentation in dbt for trust and clarity.
• Set standards for data modeling, testing, and documentation.
• Work from a ticketed backlog (Jira) with prioritized, visible work.
• Handle sensitive health data per HIPAA and Teal governance practices.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data warehousing

Data modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation

Tools

dbt-core

Fivetran

Looker/LookML

PostgreSQL/Redshift/Snowflake

Python

Job description

Teal Health is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the data warehouse foundation, pipelines, and semantic layer in Omni. You will work across backend systems, marketing platforms, and healthcare data streams to provide reliable, analysis-ready data for decision-making.

You will collaborate with Analytics to deliver trusted dashboards and enable cross-system insights. The role focuses on building scalable data models, ensuring data quality, and expanding integrations and data sources while