Principal Software Data Engineer
PointClickCare8 months ago
Responsibilities
- Lead and guide the design and implementation of scalable distributed systems based on Java microservices.
- Engineer and optimize batch and real-time data pipelines using Apache Hudi, Apache Trino, and Azure ADLS.
- Collaborate with product, analytics, and AI teams to make data a strategic organizational asset.
- Advance event-driven architecture and cloud-native modernization efforts.
- Drive data governance, observability, performance tuning, and quality practices across data workloads.
- Define schema contracts, transformation tests, data assertions, backward-compatible schema evolution, and automated freshness, completeness, and accuracy checks.
- Implement pipeline metrics, logging, distributed tracing, SLAs, SLOs, alerting, and dashboards for proactive monitoring and incident response.
- Provide technical leadership, mentor team members, and foster quality through peer reviews and constructive feedback.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of professional experience in software or data engineering, including at least four years focused on batch and streaming data pipelines.
- Proven experience setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and delivering complex, high-scale solutions as a hands-on contributor.
- Strong understanding and implementation experience with event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and resilient low-latency pipelines.
- Practical experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and containerized deployments for data workloads.
- Experience with data quality practices and CI/CD integration, including schema management, automated testing, and validation frameworks such as dbt and Great Expectations.
- Experience implementing metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for data pipelines and applying data governance and performance optimization.
- Experience with lakehouse architectures and technologies including Apache Hudi, Azure ADLS Gen2, HDFS, Trino, Databricks, and Spark.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and promote modern data practices.
Benefits
- Benefits start from Day 1.
- Retirement plan matching, flexible paid time off, wellness support programs, parental and caregiver leaves, fertility and adoption support, continuous development support, employee assistance program, allyship and inclusion communities, and employee recognition.
- The role may require travel to the Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City offices for remote-role events; hybrid roles require residence within commuting distance of the specified office.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About PointClickCare
PointClickCare is a leading health tech company with one simple mission: to help providers deliver exceptional care. With the largest long‐term and post‐acute care dataset, we power AI-driven healthcare that fuels intelligent transitions, insightful interventions, and financial sustainability. Enhanced by our marketplace of 400+ integrated partners and trusted by over 30,000 provider organizations and every major U.S. health plan, we’re redefining healthcare, so it doesn’t just survive — it thrives.