Lead Data Engineer (Data Engineering)

Location: 100% remote; employee must live within the United States. The role is based in Rochester, Minnesota, with M–F daytime hours.

Salary: $148,137.60–$214,760.00 per year.

Company

A top-ranked healthcare provider focused on patient-centered care, employee development, and comprehensive benefits.

What you will do

• Design, develop, review, and optimize production-grade data pipelines, data products, and platform capabilities.
• Lead data architecture design, prototyping, infrastructure improvements, and automation of manual processes.
• Establish architectural principles, design patterns, and engineering standards for scalable and resilient systems.
• Analyze requirements and collaborate with software, frontend, backend, data, and platform engineers.
• Lead technical discussions, participate in the Technical Review Board, and serve as a liaison between engineering leadership and technical teams.
• Mentor engineers and contribute hands-on code in an Agile, SAFe, and Scrum environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 6 years of experience, or an associate degree with 8 years of experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in data engineering, data science, or analytical modeling, including production data pipelines.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience supporting production-grade solutions.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, or AWS, and CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure Pipelines.
• Experience with Spark, Hive, Airflow, Kafka, GCP Dataflow, BigQuery, FHIR APIs, Vertex AI, Kubernetes, and Docker.
• Must live within the United States for this 100% remote role.

Nice to have

• Experience with distributed computing frameworks such as Spark, Flink, or Ray.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, Parquet, Avro, and ORC.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms supporting analytics, AI/ML, and operational workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time schedule with 80 hours per pay period and M–F daytime hours.
• Medical, dental, and vision plan options.
• HSA and FSA options for eligible expenses.
• Competitive retirement package.
• Continuing education and career advancement opportunities.