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