Senior Data Engineer — Remote/Hybrid Contract

Teal Health; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 172,000; Part time

Job summary

Teal Health is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the data warehouse, pipelines, and the semantic layer in Omni that teams rely on for decision making. You’ll connect diverse sources like AWS, HubSpot, and marketing platforms, shaping trusted data for forecasting and analytics.

You will partner with analytics to ensure accurate, well‑defined data layers and dashboards, while implementing governance and documentation standards across the data stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering or analytics engineering with ownership of a production data warehouse.
• Strong SQL skills, including window functions, date logic, and complex joins across marketing, product, and operations.
• Fluency in Postgres/Redshift/Snowflake-style SQL (type casts, date_trunc, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with dbt-core: models, sources, dbt_project.yml, Jinja templating, and tests.
• Experience designing a layered staging → reporting data warehouse.
• Experience with Fivetran-landed data across diverse sources.
• Clear documentation and ticket-driven work practices.
• Familiarity with HIPAA data governance and privacy considerations.

Responsibilities

• Own Teal’s data warehouse architecture, performance, reliability, and documentation.
• Extend and troubleshoot Fivetran ingestion across source systems.
• Build and maintain the dbt transformation layer from raw sources to business-ready models.
• Own the Omni data layer and define relationships, joins, and modeled fields.
• Partner with analytics to ensure dashboards sit on an accurate data layer.
• Handle early integrations work and support partner data flows.
• Write tests and documentation in dbt to ensure trust in the warehouse.
• Set standards for data modeling, testing, and documentation; contribute to team growth.
• Manage work from a Jira-backed backlog and keep priorities visible.

Skills

SQL

dbt-core

Data warehousing

Looker/LookML

Data modeling

HIPAA

Tools

Fivetran

dbt

Looker

Python

AWS

Job description

Teal Health is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the data warehouse, pipelines, and the semantic layer in Omni that teams rely on for decision making. You’ll connect diverse sources like AWS, HubSpot, and marketing platforms, shaping trusted data for forecasting and analytics.

You will partner with analytics to ensure accurate, well‑defined data layers and dashboards, while implementing governance and documentation standards across the data stack.