Senior Data Engineer

Position Purpose An exciting opportunity to join a high-growth organization at the intersection of healthcare and technology. The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, maintaining, and optimizing the data platform that powers customer-facing analytics, embedded product capabilities, enterprise reporting, and strategic decision-making across Viventium + Apploi. This role will provide end-to-end ownership of critical components within the Viventium + Apploi data ecosystem, including data ingestion, transformation, modeling, orchestration, security, governance, and platform optimization. The Senior Data Engineer will develop scalable and reliable data solutions that enable business growth, operational excellence, and product innovation while ensuring the highest standards of data quality, performance, and security. The Senior Data Engineer will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Revenue Operations, Customer Success, and business stakeholders to transform complex business needs into trusted, actionable, and scalable data solutions. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and brings deep expertise in modern cloud data platforms, strong engineering judgment, a passion for continuous improvement, and a proven track record of delivering high-impact data solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Key Objectives Deliver trusted, scalable, and secure enterprise data solutions across Viventium + Apploi. Enable data-driven decision-making through high-quality reporting, analytics, and product capabilities. Improve platform reliability, data quality, governance, observability, and engineering efficiency. Optimize Snowflake performance, scalability, and cost management. Strengthen engineering standards through testing, automation, documentation, and continuous improvement. Support the responsible adoption of AI-powered data capabilities and advanced analytics solutions. Develop strong cross-functional partnerships that accelerate business outcomes and product innovation. Essential Duties and Responsibilities The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following: Data Architecture & Modeling: Design, build, test, document, and maintain scalable data models within a production Snowflake and dbt environment. Develop data structures across source, staging, transformation, and business-ready analytical layers. Implement best practices for incremental processing, reusable macros, testing, documentation, and data governance. Create scalable dimensional and analytical models supporting enterprise reporting, operational analytics, and customer-facing functionality. Establish standards for data quality, lineage, ownership, validation, and documentation. Evaluate and continuously improve model performance, scalability, maintainability, and usability. Data Pipeline Engineering: Design, build, maintain, and monitor end-to-end data pipelines supporting operational databases, third-party systems, APIs, event streams, and other business-critical data sources. Develop and optimize batch, streaming, and change-data-capture ingestion frameworks. Build and support ingestion workflows utilizing technologies such as AWS DMS, Estuary, RudderStack, or comparable enterprise platforms. Implement robust monitoring, validation, reconciliation, retry, and alerting processes. Investigate and resolve data quality issues, integration failures, latency concerns, and production incidents. Perform root-cause analysis and implement sustainable corrective actions. Workflow Orchestration & Automation Build and manage data orchestration workflows utilizing Prefect or similar modern orchestration technologies. Configure deployments, schedules, dependencies, monitoring, retries, and operational controls. Develop Python-based automation, integrations, and pipeline services supporting enterprise data operations. Drive workflow efficiency through automation and process optimization. Maintain appropriate controls across development, testing, and production environments. Contribute to the continuous improvement of release management and deployment practices. Product-Facing Data Solutions: Partner with Product and Engineering teams to deliver data-powered features that enhance customer experiences and business outcomes. Translate business and product requirements into scalable, reliable, and maintainable technical solutions. Support advanced analytical capabilities including entity matching, recommendation engines, search functionality, and scoring models. Develop solutions leveraging Snowflake Cortex, embeddings, vector search, or AI-powered technologies where appropriate. Ensure product-facing data solutions meet established standards for performance, security, reliability, explainability, and governance. Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Development: Utilize Company-approved AI tools to enhance engineering productivity, code development, testing, documentation, and code review activities. Validate all AI-assisted outputs for quality, security, functionality, and compliance with engineering standards. Ensure confidential, proprietary, customer, applicant, and employee information is handled in accordance with Company policies and approved technology practices. Identify opportunities to responsibly leverage AI and automation to improve development efficiency and operational effectiveness. Maintain accountability for technical decisions, production solutions, and engineering outcomes. Data Security, Privacy & Governance: Implement and maintain secure data management practices utilizing role-based access controls, masking, secure views, and least-privilege principles. Protect personally identifiable and sensitive data in accordance with Company policies, contractual requirements, security standards, and applicable regulations. Manage secure customer and partner data sharing using Snowflake shares, reader accounts, customer-scoped views, and approved access mechanisms. Participate in governance initiatives, security reviews, audit readiness activities, and compliance efforts. Maintain documentation supporting data access, lineage, ownership, classification, and control processes. Identify and escalate security, privacy, or data integrity risks in a timely manner. Performance Optimization & Operational Excellence: Monitor and optimize platform performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Evaluate and improve warehouse sizing, query performance, clustering, caching, workload allocation, and resource utilization. Identify opportunities to improve platform efficiency and operational effectiveness. Ensure critical processing workloads complete within defined operational windows and service expectations. Develop monitoring and alerting capabilities that proactively identify risks and issues. Support incident response, production troubleshooting, and continuous operational improvement. Engineering Standards & Technical Leadership: Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, testing standards, documentation, and CI/CD best practices. Establish and reinforce standards for data quality, code quality, observability, maintainability, and platform reliability. Develop automated testing methodologies supporting data integrity and operational confidence. Provide technical leadership, coaching, and knowledge sharing across the organization. Contribute to architectural discussions and the long-term evolution of the Viventium + Apploi data ecosystem. Communicate technical risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and recommendations effectively. Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering, Revenue Operations, Customer Success, and business stakeholders to prioritize and deliver impactful data initiatives. Translate ambiguous business questions into trustworthy and scalable technical solutions. Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Promote adoption, understanding, and consistent use of data across Viventium + Apploi. Manage competing priorities with transparency, sound judgment, and proactive communication. The essential functions listed above are representative of the primary duties required. Employees must be able to perform these functions with or without reasonable accommodation This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. The Company reserves the right to modify the role as needed. Employment is at-will and may be terminated at any time with or without cause or notice, in accordance with applicable law. Work Environment & Physical Requirements Ability to sit, stand, and work at a computer for extended periods Ability to communicate effectively via phone, video, and written channels Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional, and technology-enabled work environment Travel as needed for internal meetings, company events or professional development opportunities (<5%) Reasonable accommodations will be provided in accordance with applicable law. Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities) Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred. Equivalent combinations of education, professional training, certifications, and applicable experience may be considered. Minimum Qualifications: 5+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting production data engineering solutions. 5+ years of hands-on experience with Snowflake and dbt in enterprise environments. Advanced SQL expertise, including performance optimization, dimensional modeling, window functions, and semi-structured data. Strong Python development experience for pipeline engineering, orchestration, and automation. Experience with Prefect, Airflow, Dagster, or similar modern orchestration platforms. Experience supporting CDC, streaming, event-driven, and API-based data architectures. Experience utilizing Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and code-review best practices. Strong understanding of data governance, security, privacy controls, and data quality frameworks. Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills within a collaborative, remote-first environment. Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Snowflake Cortex, vector search, embeddings, semantic search, or AI-powered data solutions. Experience within healthcare technology, HCM, HR technology, ATS, or SaaS environments. Experience designing recommendation engines, matching algorithms, or advanced analytical products. Experience with dbt package development, Semantic Layer implementations, or macro-intensive dbt architectures. Experience with geospatial data, dimensional modeling, and reverse ETL technologies. Snowflake SnowPro certification or comparable advanced technical certifications. Success Profile (What Good Looks Like in 12 Months) Established a scalable and highly reliable data platform supporting critical Viventium + Apploi business and product initiatives. Improved platform observability, governance, data quality, and stakeholder confidence in enterprise reporting and analytics. Delivered measurable improvements in customer-facing product capabilities, reporting accuracy, and business intelligence outcomes. Strengthened engineering standards through automation, testing, documentation, deployment practices, and operational excellence. Improved Snowflake performance and platform efficiency through sustainable optimization initiatives. Developed strong and trusted partnerships across Product, Engineering, Revenue Operations, Customer Success, and business stakeholders. Successfully implemented AI-enabled capabilities that produced measurable business value while maintaining governance and security standards. Established credibility as a technical leader and trusted subject matter expert within the Viventium + Apploi data organization. Compensation & Pay Transparency Base Salary Range: $125,600 – $151,300 per year This range reflects the expected base salary for this position and is aligned with market data and internal equity considerations Individual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus or other incentive compensation, in accordance with Company plans Viventium + Apploi is committed to maintaining competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation practices in compliance with all applicable laws