Remote Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform & Pipelines

Lyric; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyric is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for the Data Platform team to build the data foundation powering our healthcare decision intelligence platform. This remote US role focuses on canonical data models, pipeline development, validation, and observability in a multi-tenant environment using Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, and Python.

You will own production data pipelines, contribute to architectural direction, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data delivery aligns with business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, building and owning production data pipelines.
• Strong Snowflake experience, including streams and tasks, warehouse sizing and performance tuning, SQL optimization, RBAC, clustering, and micro-partitions.
• Production experience with dbt and Airflow, including model/DAG structuring for maintainability.
• Strong programming in Python and deep SQL proficiency.
• Solid data modeling skills for multi-consumer schemas.
• Experience building testing and data quality validation into pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own data pipelines in our unified framework using Airflow, dbt, and Snowflake.
• Implement the canonical data model in production, contributing to architecture as needed.
• Build automated validation and data quality checks into pipelines at defined stages.
• Instrument pipelines for observability: freshness, lineage, and failure alerting.
• Contribute to self-service capabilities for consuming teams with governed outputs.
• Partner with invoicing, analytics, and reporting teams to translate needs into data.
• Migrate and consolidate workloads onto the unified framework without disruption.
• Participate in on-call rotation for pipeline incidents and reviews.
• Maintain high engineering bar: version control, testing, CI/CD, and documentation.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical level of the team.

Skills

Data pipelines

Python

SQL

Data modeling

RBAC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/CS

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Datadog

Job description

Lyric is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for the Data Platform team to build the data foundation powering our healthcare decision intelligence platform. This remote US role focuses on canonical data models, pipeline development, validation, and observability in a multi-tenant environment using Snowflake, Airflow, dbt, and Python.

You will own production data pipelines, contribute to architectural direction, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data delivery aligns with business