Senior Data Engineer — GCP, BigQuery & ELT Pipelines

Cloudjobs; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 89,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Waystar is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Business Data & Architecture team in Lehi, UT. This role focuses on designing and building scalable data platforms for analytics, governance, and AI initiatives on Google Cloud Platform.

The candidate will own end-to-end data pipelines, data modeling, and data quality across the enterprise, working with stakeholders to deliver trusted data products and insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related technical field.
• 5+ years of data engineering or related experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Advanced SQL development and data modeling knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable ELT pipelines into BigQuery using Fivetran, APIs, Python and cloud-native services.
• Develop and optimize bronze, silver, and gold data layers following Medallion Architecture principles.
• Create and maintain reusable dbt models for enterprise reporting and analytics.
• Design scalable ingestion patterns for structured and semi-structured data.
• Develop monitoring, observability, and data quality checks across data pipelines.

Skills

BigQuery

ELT development

dbt

Python

GCP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Cloud Composer

Job description

Waystar is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Business Data & Architecture team in Lehi, UT. This role focuses on designing and building scalable data platforms for analytics, governance, and AI initiatives on Google Cloud Platform.

The candidate will own end-to-end data pipelines, data modeling, and data quality across the enterprise, working with stakeholders to deliver trusted data products and insights.