Senior Data Engineer New

Unite Us; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Mental health benefits

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

401(k) match

WFH equipment provided

Job summary

Unite Us, a nationwide health and social care network, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design and scale data infrastructure supporting clients and internal teams. You will partner with Application Engineers, Product Managers, and cross-functional groups to deliver ETL pipelines and data warehouse integrations.

You will champion data quality, governance, and accessibility, participate in on-call rotations, and help onboard customers to data products across the nationwide network.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating data warehouses, data lakes, and ETL/ELT pipelines in production.
• Expertise with Snowflake, DBT, and modern data tooling.
• Strong SQL and Python skills; familiarity with cloud platforms.
• Experience with data governance and compliance in healthcare/social determinants space.

Responsibilities

• Design / implement a data architecture and infrastructure aligned with business objectives.
• Collaborate with Application Engineers, Product Managers, and Solutions Architects to ensure data systems support client requirements.
• Develop, create, and maintain ETL processes and data pipelines for loading data into the data warehouse.
• Test, monitor, and optimize data pipelines to ensure reliability and performance.
• Collect and validate high-quality data.
• Ensure data integrity and governance standards.
• Champion data democratization and enable access to well-documented data for stakeholders.
• Guide teams on data engineering best practices.

Skills

Snowflake

DBT

Python

Apache Airflow

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

SQL

Postgres

Redshift

Data governance

Education

BS in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Airflow

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Snowflake

DBT

Redshift

Postgres

Job description

About the Role

The Senior Data Engineer designs, builds, and maintains scalable data architecture and infrastructure that supports Unite Us’ business objectives and the needs of both healthcare and social care clients. As part of a collaborative team of talented engineers, this role partners closely with Application Engineers, Product Managers, and cross‑functional teams to deliver reliable, high‑quality data solutions, including ETL pipelines and data warehouse integrations. This work is critical to collecting, processing, and delivering data to internal and external stakeholders, enabling informed investment decisions, quantifying the value and ROI of Unite Us networks, and supporting continued organizational growth across healthcare and social care domains. The Senior Data Engineer champions data integrity and accessibility, contributes to system architecture and technical best practices, and provides operational support through customer onboarding and on‑call participation—helping establish Unite Us as a trusted leader across the healthcare and social care landscape while making a meaningful impact nationwide.

What You'll Do

• Design / implement a data architecture and infrastructure aligned with business objectives
• Collaborate with Application Engineers, Product Managers, and Solutions Architects to ensure data systems or technical infrastructure support client and product requirements
• Develop, create, and maintain ETL processes and data pipeline solutions for efficient loading of data into the data warehouse
• Test, monitor, and optimize data pipelines or ETL solutions to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability
• Collect and validate high‑quality data
• Ensure data integrity and maintain strong data governance standards
• Champion data democratization and enable or facilitate accessibility to well‑documented data for relevant stakeholders
• Guide the team or engineering teams on technical or data engineering best practices
• Contribute to system or platform architecture
• Support operational activities such as onboarding new customers to data products
• Participate in team on‑call rotations
• Partner or engage with cross‑functional teams, including Solutions Delivery, Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics, and Enterprise Services
• Address, resolve, or support data‑related technical issues or requirement

You're a great fit for this role if

• 6–8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating data warehouses, data lakes, and ETL/ELT pipelines in production environments
• Proven experience building, designing, or optimizing data pipelines using Snowflake
• Experience using data transformation tools like DBT
• Proven expertise architecting and optimizing batch and streaming data pipelines
• Advanced SQL knowledge, including complex query authoring and familiarity with relational databases such as Snowflake, Redshift, and Postgres
• Strong proficiency in Python for building, optimizing, and maintaining data pipelines and services
• Experience with orchestration frameworks such as Apache Airflow
• Exposure to or experience with AWS and cloud services such as S3, ECS, and RDS, including building cloud‑native data platforms
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for testing, deployment, and release (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience with infrastructure and data tooling including Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker
• Exposure to or experience with Kafka
• Experience developing or delivering data platforms or applications for large enterprise clients
• Background or previous engagement with healthcare and/or social determinants of health (SDOH) data products, including designing, building, or maintaining pipelines for healthcare claims and clinical data, with an understanding of data quality, scale, sensitivity, and compliance requirements in this space
• Experience designing high‑performance, reliable systems, including exposure to operational best practices
• Exposure to or experience with data quality frameworks
• Experience supporting analytics, reporting, or data user tools (e.g., Tableau, Looker, ThoughtSpot, Sigma)
• Strong problem‑solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to identify, investigate, and resolve complex data issues and system failures, and to lead technical investigations
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional and non‑technical stakeholders
• BS/BA degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Our Mission

Unite Us’ mission is to unlock the potential of every community. Our co‑founders started Unite Us in 2013 to serve the people they served with. They witnessed firsthand the barriers and inefficiencies in trying to navigate health and social services, and set out to improve that experience for veterans and their families. Unite Us quickly expanded to serving all people who need connections to care across our country. Through Unite Us’ national network and software, community‑based organizations, government agencies, and healthcare organizations are all connected to better collaborate to meet the needs of the individuals in their communities. We drive the collaboration to predict, deliver, and pay for services that impact whole‑person health. If you want to do well and do good, join Unite Us.

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions

• This position is remote, U.S. based.
• The target pay range for this role is: $145,000-$175,000. This salary range represents our target hiring range for this role. The proposed salary will be dependent on the candidate's skills, experience, and competencies, as well as location.
• All team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification

Benefits provided by Unite Us

Medical, Dental, and Vision

We offer insurance to team members and eligible partners and dependents, including unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits.

Mental health benefits, such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness platform subscription, are available to all team members.

Flexible Time Off

Take what you need, including volunteer days and mental health days. We also offer 14 paid, company‑wide holidays.

Paid Parental Leave

Adoptive parents are included.

Employee Resource Groups

Join our ERGs to connect and engage with colleagues, like Military Veterans

Spending Accounts

We offer tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and commuter benefits.

401(k) + Employer Match

Enjoy matching, immediate vesting and financial wellness resources

Additional Benefits

Life and AD&D - a company paid benefit, with the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents

Disability Coverage

Pet Insurance

As part of this work at home job, we will provide you with all the necessary equipment to perform your duties, including a computer, mouse, keyboard as well as other items on our approved list of WFH supplies.

Unite Us is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in race, religion, color, national origin, gender, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, medical conditions, and other characteristics. If you require assistance in applying for open positions due to a disability please email us at [e-mail] to request an accommodation.

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self‑identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file.

As set forth in Unite Us’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service‑connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three‑year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.