Remote Senior Data Engineer: Healthcare Data Platform

Akumin®; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible scheduling

Cross training opportunities

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSA accounts with employer contributes

401(k) eligibility with employer match

Paid holidays

Defined PTO and sick time programs

Job summary

Akumin is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build out the enterprise data platform, enabling analytics and AI across the organization. In the Enterprise Data team, you will develop data collection processes, preserve data integrity, and provide rapid access for decision-makers.

The role requires designing ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, cloud experience (GCP/AWS/Azure), and collaboration with data asset managers and developers. Travel up to 5-10% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in Data Science, Computer Science or MIS, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of prior experience in Data Management / ETL / ELT / Data Warehousing.
• Experience in writing Data Quality routines for cleansing of data and capturing confidence score and master data management (MDM).
• Hands-on experience with designing and implementing data pipelines and ELT/ETL processes (ex. Fivetran, DBT).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (ex.GCP, AWS, Azure) and related services (ex. BigQuery, S3, Snowflake, etc.).
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data integration, and data governance principles (ex. DBT).
• Experience working in a highly regulated domain (ex. Healthcare, Banking, etc).
• Strong knowledge of Structured Query Language (SQL) and Transact-SQL (T-SQL).
• Experience using scripting languages such as JavaScript or Python.
• Experience with agile delivery methodologies.
• Strong organizational, administrative, and analytical skills required.
• Travel may be required between 5 to 10%.

Responsibilities

• Development of complex SQL queries for data extraction, manipulation, and reporting and transformation technologies.
• Design and implement robust ETL/ELT pipelines using custom-tooling (Python/Google) and off-the shelf tooling with focus on monitoring, supportability, and resource stewardship.
• Contribute to and leverage coding standards and best practices to ensure efficient and re-usable services and components.
• Architect, implement and deploy new data models and data processes in production.
• Builds data pipelines which acquire, cleanse, transform and publish data from a wide variety of sources.
• Assembles large, complex data sets which meets functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Partners with data asset managers, architects, and development leads to ensure technical solution provides data which is fit for use and in line with architecture blueprints.
• Identify, document, design, and implement internal process improvements.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Skills

SQL

ETL/ELT

Python

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Master’s degree in a related field

Tools

Fivetran

DBT

BigQuery

Snowflake

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Akumin is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build out the enterprise data platform, enabling analytics and AI across the organization. In the Enterprise Data team, you will develop data collection processes, preserve data integrity, and provide rapid access for decision-makers.

The role requires designing ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, cloud experience (GCP/AWS/Azure), and collaboration with data asset managers and developers. Travel up to 5-10% may be required.