Lead Data Engineer

Hopscotch Primary Care is on a mission to transform healthcare in rural America, providing high-quality primary care tailored to meet patient needs. They are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to own and evolve their data platform, ensuring data quality and accessibility while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Own our data platform : architect, build, and maintain our data model, data pipelines, and data access layer that support our care delivery, operations, and analytics
• Ensure data quality & governance : implement practices that make our data trustworthy and usable for all stakeholders, from clinicians to operators
• Monitor and optimize data infrastructure : troubleshoot issues, improve system performance, and drive efficiency through automation and process enhancements
• Lead with technical depth : review code, mentor engineers, and set engineering best practices across the team
• Think big picture : design today's infrastructure with tomorrow's needs in mind, laying the foundation for advanced analytics and AI
• Be hands-on: flex across the stack, from backend data engineering to occasional contributions in frontend applications that bring data to life
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams : work with product managers, analytics, operations, and care delivery stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering and software architecture shipping production level code, preferably in healthcare services
• Strong programming skills (Python, Pyspark, or similar) with proven experience in building and scaling reusable, testable, and maintainable data pipelines
• Experience designing and optimizing data models, warehouses, and/or lakehouses
• Familiarity with modern data platforms and cloud ecosystems (ex. Palantir Foundry, DBT, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Track record of ensuring data quality, governance, and reliability
• Ability to balance high-level architecture with tactical execution