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Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer, Data Modernizaton

LaddersUnited States
$180k–230k · statedRemote · USAMid-Senior Level

Skills

  • DATABRICKS
  • SNOWFLAKE
  • MICROSOFT FABRIC
  • PYTHON
  • PYSPARK
  • SQL
  • TERRAFORM
  • GITHUB ACTIONS
  • CI/CD
  • INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-CODE
  • HIPAA
  • HITRUST

About the role

For our client, we are seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer, Data Modernizaton to join the team of a leader in the Healthcare space.

This role will serve as a hands-on technical lead partnering directly with customer data and IT teams to modernize data platforms and accelerate delivery. The focus will be on designing scalable ingestion, transformation, and governance solutions for regulated healthcare workloads while supporting discovery and implementation from pre-sales through production. You will help establish reliable architecture, reusable frameworks, and secure data access patterns that improve delivery speed and data quality across engagements.

Location: Remote

Compensation: $180,000 – $230,000 annually

Responsibilities

  • Engage directly with customer data and IT teams to drive project success
  • Lead platform-specific architecture and build efforts as the technical lead
  • Design and implement ingestion from healthcare systems into a medallion lakehouse
  • Develop change-data-capture and transformation pipelines within deadlines
  • Configure governance and access control for clean data delivery
  • Maintain production environments and create reusable components for efficiency
  • Support pre-sales technical discovery and data assessments

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in data engineering or data platform roles at a Senior or Staff IC level
  • Client-facing experience in a healthcare or technical environment
  • Deep expertise in Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric
  • Experience with regulated production data workloads, including HIPAA or HITRUST
  • Proficiency in Python, distributed data processing with PySpark, and SQL
  • Ability to autonomously manage platform-specific architecture during builds
  • Fluency in Infrastructure-as-Code, including Terraform, and CI/CD processes such as GitHub Actions

Benefits

  • Equity options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Flexible working environment
  • Health and wellness benefits
  • Opportunities for professional development

Our client is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification—your background could be exactly what this team needs.

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