Senior Data Engineer: Lead Secure, Scalable Data Platform

SCP Health; Lafayette (LA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Competitive compensation

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Professional development support

Employee wellness resources

Work‑life balance

Job summary

SCP Health is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape and lead mission-critical data platform capabilities across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving at our Lafayette, LA headquarters. You will own end-to-end data delivery for revenue cycle, scheduling, and performance monitoring, while defining SLAs/SLOs and enforcing HIPAA-aligned controls.

You will collaborate with Security/Compliance, lead cross-team initiatives, and evolve scalable patterns for multi-facility data

Qualifications

• Expert-level design, optimization, and troubleshooting of complex SQL workloads.
• Deep Snowflake architecture knowledge including governance, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Advanced dbt project organization, macros, testing, and environment promotion.
• Ability to define canonical models and handle SCDs across domains.
• Define SLAs/SLOs and implement monitoring and runbooks.
• HIPAA-aligned design for PHI/PII with least-privilege access and auditing.
• Experience with batch and near-real-time patterns (CDC, backfill) and APIs.
• Lead design reviews and enable adoption through templates and documentation.
• Identify systemic issues and articulate multi-quarter technical plans.
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical partners.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent field experience.
• 8+ years in Data/Analytics Engineering with cross-domain ownership.
• 4+ years hands-on Snowflake experience including performance tuning.
• Healthcare/RCM experience and Agile/Scrum leadership a plus.
• Relevant certifications in Data/Analytics/Cloud are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve reference architectures for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving.
• Own end-to-end delivery for datasets supporting revenue cycle, scheduling, and billing.
• Lead multi-facility integrations (HL7, FHIR, APIs, flat files) and backfills.
• Establish onboarding playbooks and reusable patterns across teams.
• Enforce platform conventions across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers.
• Coordinate incident response and postmortems to drive improvements.
• Drive Snowflake performance and cost optimization and communicate tradeoffs.
• Architect HIPAA-aligned controls and partner with Security/Compliance.
• Define data quality strategy and observability standards.
• Mentor engineers and improve CI/CD with gates and automated checks.
• Shape platform roadmap with stakeholders for scalability and governance.

Skills

SQL workloads

Snowflake architecture

dbt project organization

SCD data modeling

SLA/SLO design

HIPAA-aligned design

Batch/real-time patterns

Cross-team leadership

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder communications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in MIS/CS or related field

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

SQL

Job description

SCP Health is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to shape and lead mission-critical data platform capabilities across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving at our Lafayette, LA headquarters. You will own end-to-end data delivery for revenue cycle, scheduling, and performance monitoring, while defining SLAs/SLOs and enforcing HIPAA-aligned controls.

You will collaborate with Security/Compliance, lead cross-team initiatives, and evolve scalable patterns for multi-facility data