Senior Data Platform Engineer – Real-Time Healthcare Data

Lyric; United States; On-site; USD 125,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyric is seeking a Senior Data Engineer on the Data Platform team to build the data foundation for Lyric's healthcare decision intelligence platform. You will design and deliver production data pipelines using Airflow, dbt, and Snowflake, implement the canonical data model, and ensure data quality and observability across multi-tenant data domains.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams in analytics and invoicing, and uphold disciplined engineering practices including

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, building and owning production data pipelines.
• Strong Snowflake experience, including streams and tasks, warehouse sizing and performance tuning, SQL optimization, and RBAC concepts.
• Production experience with dbt and Airflow, including model and DAG structuring for maintainability.
• Strong Python programming and deep SQL proficiency.
• Solid data modeling skills for multi-consumer schemas and shared vs consumer-specific extensions.
• Experience building data quality validation into pipelines, not after the fact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own data pipelines in our unified framework using Airflow, dbt, and Snowflake.
• Implement the canonical data model in production and contribute to architectural direction.
• Build automated validation and data quality checks into pipelines at defined stages.
• Instrument pipelines for observability, including freshness, lineage, and failure alerting.
• Contribute to self-service data capabilities for consuming teams.
• Collaborate with invoicing, analytics, and reporting teams to translate requirements into reliable data.
• Migrate and consolidate existing data workloads onto the unified framework without disruption.
• Participate in on-call rotation for pipeline and data quality incidents and incident reviews.
• Maintain high engineering standards: version control, testing, code review, CI/CD, and documentation.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical level of the team.

Skills

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Python

SQL

Data modeling

RBAC

CI/CD

Micro-partitions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Datadog

Job description

Lyric is seeking a Senior Data Engineer on the Data Platform team to build the data foundation for Lyric's healthcare decision intelligence platform. You will design and deliver production data pipelines using Airflow, dbt, and Snowflake, implement the canonical data model, and ensure data quality and observability across multi-tenant data domains.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams in analytics and invoicing, and uphold disciplined engineering practices including