Senior Data Engineer - Scalable Healthcare Platform

Harnham; Kentucky; On-site; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus (10%)

Job summary

Harnham is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the design and implementation of a modern data platform from the ground up in a healthcare-focused organization. You will own architecture, standards, and platform direction, while mentoring junior engineers and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure reliable analytics and reporting.

Responsibilities include building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, optimizing cloud data storage, and enforcing data governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing, architecting, and implementing enterprise data warehouse solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and data infrastructure.
• Proven expertise building and managing data pipelines within AWS environments.
• Strong experience with Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration and pipeline management.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience working effectively in high-growth, rapidly changing, or startup-style environments.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and adapt to evolving business needs.
• Authorization to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, development, and ongoing enhancement of a scalable enterprise data platform.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to define objectives, project scope, milestones, and success measures.
• Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines that integrate data from multiple healthcare and enterprise systems.
• Develop and optimise cloud-based data storage solutions, data models, and query performance.
• Implement workflow orchestration, scheduling, monitoring, and operational support for data pipelines.
• Establish best practices for data governance, documentation, testing, alerting, and engineering standards.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Mentor and support junior data engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to long-term data strategy and platform scalability initiatives.

Skills

5+ years data engineering experience

Critical thinking

Problem-solving

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring juniors

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Airflow

Snowflake

dbt

Python

SQL

Job description

Harnham is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the design and implementation of a modern data platform from the ground up in a healthcare-focused organization. You will own architecture, standards, and platform direction, while mentoring junior engineers and coordinating with stakeholders to ensure reliable analytics and reporting.

Responsibilities include building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, optimizing cloud data storage, and enforcing data governance.