Remote Lead Data Platform Engineer

Piper Companies; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Lead Data/Platform Engineer to join a healthcare technology organization. The Lead Data/Platform Engineer will play a key role in rebuilding the company's data pipeline from the ground up, helping modernize the platform and establish a scalable foundation for future growth.

Responsibilities include modernizing data pipelines, designing API integrations, building event-driven ETL, and managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and supporting large-scale data platforms or data engineering environments.
• Proven experience re-architecting or rebuilding data pipelines and platforms from the ground up.
• Strong backend skills with Python, Node.js, Go or TypeScript.
• Extensive SQL and data warehousing expertise (Redshift/Snowflake).

Responsibilities

• Rebuild and modernize a legacy data pipeline into scalable ingestion, processing, and storage solutions.
• Design and develop integrations for APIs, vendor feeds, BigQuery, and external sources.
• Build event-driven services and ETL processes using Python/Node.js or similar.
• Develop and manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform, CI/CD, and containers.
• Establish observability, monitoring, lineage, and operational standards for data systems.
• Lead data migration, reconciliation, backfill, and cutover with data accuracy.

Skills

Python

Node.js

Go

TypeScript

ETL

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Containerization

SQL

Data Warehousing

BigQuery

Redshift

Snowflake

Kafka

Kinesis

SQS

Airflow

dbt

Tools

BigQuery

Redshift

Snowflake

Kafka

Kinesis

SQS

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a Lead Data/Platform Engineer to join a healthcare technology organization. The Lead Data/Platform Engineer will play a key role in rebuilding the company's data pipeline from the ground up, helping modernize the platform and establish a scalable foundation for future growth.

Responsibilities include modernizing data pipelines, designing API integrations, building event-driven ETL, and managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD.