Staff Data Engineer

firsthand supports individuals living with serious mental illness through a holistic approach involving a team of specialists. The Staff Data Engineer will design, build, and optimize data infrastructure, serving as a technical lead to enhance the company's data capabilities and support healthcare initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, building, and optimizing scaled data infrastructure, serving as a technical lead and mentor within the organization
• Directly collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to effectively gather requirements and understand business needs in order to create durable pipelines, infrastructure, and ELT models that enable the company to ingest data in various formats and from various sources and then turn them into usable business facing data products
• Align and coordinate your team's work against strategic business priorities and help define and manage the data roadmap
• Drive operational excellence by ensuring data quality through automated testing and validation, robust pipeline monitoring and alerting, and establishing clear incident response practices when things break
• Provide technical leadership through mentorship, architecture reviews, and maintaining high technical standards across the codebase
• Own data architecture, infrastructure, and platform improvements. Drive systems improvements and upgrades with a long-term view
• Use systems thinking to solve problems and add capabilities. Adopt tools, technologies, and patterns to provide leverage. Build a platform, don't just get tasks done

Requirements:

• 7+ years of data engineering experience, with deep expertise in technologies like Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, and Python
• You've architected data systems for reliability and scale, not just built pipelines to spec
• A track record with ambiguous initiatives that required breaking down complex problems, coordinating across engineering and business teams, and delivering outcomes
• Strong technical communication skills, including the ability to represent your team's work and direction to non-technical leadership, and to translate business needs into technical strategy that others can follow
• Experience enabling team leverage through mentorship, establishing technical standards, and guiding stakeholders through capability tradeoffs; you make the people and systems around you better
• Familiarity with healthcare data: claims, pharmacy data, interoperability specs (HL7/FHIR, X12, etc) is at the core of what we do