Head of Data Engineering & Platform Delivery

Waystar, Inc; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total rewards

3 medical plans with HSA

Paid time off - 3 weeks + 13 holidays

Parental leave

Education assistance

LinkedIn Learning access

401(K) with company match

Pet insurance

Job summary

Waystar, Inc is seeking a Technical Manager, Data Engineering to lead and scale its data engineering function on a modern BigQuery-based platform. You will manage a team, own delivery, and drive architectural decisions across Bronze/Silver/Gold data layers on GCP.

You will partner with governance and business domains to ensure a governed, high-performing data ecosystem while delivering scalable ingestion, transformation pipelines and domain-aligned data models.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering experience on enterprise-scale platforms.
• 2+ years leading or managing data engineering teams.
• Hands-on expertise with GCP and BigQuery.
• Advanced experience with dbt (required).
• Experience with Fivetran and API-based ingestion frameworks.
• Strong Python skills including API integrations and automation.
• Proven experience building scalable ELT pipelines and data models.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a team of data engineers across multiple domains.
• Drive sprint delivery, engineering best practices and adoption of standards.
• Define data engineering standards, patterns, and governance.
• Oversee ELT pipelines into BigQuery using Fivetran and custom APIs.
• Review and optimize dbt models, transformations and orchestration.
• Implement and monitor data quality, observability, and governance.

Skills

Team leadership

GCP BigQuery

dbt

Python

Fivetran

API integrations

GitHub CI/CD

Terraform

Data governance

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Cloud Composer

Fivetran

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Waystar, Inc is seeking a Technical Manager, Data Engineering to lead and scale its data engineering function on a modern BigQuery-based platform. You will manage a team, own delivery, and drive architectural decisions across Bronze/Silver/Gold data layers on GCP.

You will partner with governance and business domains to ensure a governed, high-performing data ecosystem while delivering scalable ingestion, transformation pipelines and domain-aligned data models.