Senior Cloud Data Infrastructure Architect

Lyric; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Lyric is the trusted leader in healthcare decision intelligence. Our cloud data team designs, builds, and scales data platforms powering online transactions, analytics, and AI within engineering operations.

The Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer will optimize performance and cost on AWS, implement IaC and CI/CD, mentor engineers, and collaborate with data, analytics, and product teams to ensure secure, high-availability data services for health plans across the US.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of experience in Cloud-based Data Infrastructure or related roles.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Data Services (Aurora, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, Athena).
• Strong PostgreSQL/Aurora and Snowflake experience.
• Proficiency in SQL and scripting languages like Python or Shell.
• Terraform and GitLab for CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Experience optimizing database performance and handling high-throughput data systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure on AWS.
• Implement and operate core data systems across ingestion, transformation, storage, and orchestration layers.
• Ensure reliability, performance, availability, and cost efficiency of data platforms.
• Promote observability, IaC, and CI/CD automation best practices.
• Support and scale distributed data systems across environments.
• Collaborate with application, analytics, and AI teams for self-service data access.
• Mentor junior engineers and participate in design reviews.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous improvements.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response when required.

Skills

Cloud data infra

PostgreSQL/Aurora

Snowflake

SQL

Python

Terraform

GitLab

Data pipeline

Tools

Aurora PostgreSQL

RDS

S3

IAM

Lambda

Glue

Athena

Terraform

GitLab

Kafka

Snowflake

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Lyric is the trusted leader in healthcare decision intelligence. Our cloud data team designs, builds, and scales data platforms powering online transactions, analytics, and AI within engineering operations.

The Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer will optimize performance and cost on AWS, implement IaC and CI/CD, mentor engineers, and collaborate with data, analytics, and product teams to ensure secure, high-availability data services for health plans across the US.