Senior Data Engineer
Care Access12 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$120k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, reliable data pipelines for clinical, operational, and business needs.
- Develop architecture standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices for data engineering workflows.
- Build automated systems for data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration using cloud-native and open-source tools.
- Optimize data storage and processing in data lakes and cloud data warehouses using Azure and Databricks.
- Develop and monitor batch and streaming data processes for accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.
- Maintain documentation and data lineage tracking to support transparency and governance.
- Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, software engineers, business stakeholders, contractors, and third-party vendors.
- Review team members' work, provide technical mentorship, and help maintain quality and performance standards.
- Use Databricks, dbt, Azure Data Factory, and SQL to architect and deploy data engineering solutions.
- Integrate APIs, structured and unstructured data sources, and third-party systems into centralized data platforms.
- Evaluate technologies and improve infrastructure, automation, observability, scalability, efficiency, and performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of data engineering experience building cloud-based, production-grade data pipelines.
- Strong expertise in Databricks, SQL, dbt, Python, and cloud data ecosystems such as Azure.
- Experience working with structured and semi-structured data from diverse domains.
- Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow and Azure Data Factory.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software engineering practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills for addressing complex data challenges and developing scalable solutions.
Benefits
- Remote within the United States with 100% of work performed in a remote office environment.
- Less than 10% travel, with occasional planned travel potentially required.
- Paid time off and company-paid holidays.
- Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options.
- Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, and bi-weekly employer HSA contributions.
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
About Care Access
Care Access is a privately held clinical research services company headquartered in Boston, founded in 2015. It operates a global network of research sites, mobile clinics, and clinicians to run community-based clinical trials and health screenings, and provides site support, staffing, and trial software to sponsors and CROs. Studies are conducted across hundreds of locations to reach underserved populations.