Principal Data Engineer
Core
Senior individual contributor accountable for cross-domain technical leadership, defining enterprise data engineering standards, and driving convergence of complex data initiatives from ambiguity to production.
Role type
Principal Data Engineer (Senior IC)
Builds
Enterprise data capabilities, semantic/metrics layers, canonical data models, governed data products, and shared platform services.
Domain
Healthcare diagnostics and life sciences data engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Enterprise data architecture, Databricks/Spark/Python/Scala/SQL, ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling (relational/NoSQL), cloud infrastructure (AWS), API development, technical leadership, incident management, regulatory compliance (HIPAA/CLIA)
Preferred skills
Unity Catalog, Kafka/event-streaming, semantic layer design, multi-cloud architecture, life sciences domain knowledge
Technologies
Databricks, Unity Catalog, Spark, Python, Scala, SQL, Snowflake, AWS, S3, SQS, GitLab CI/CD, Kafka, Delta Lake, Tableau, JIRA, Confluence
Responsibilities
Convert enterprise needs into executable architecture, define and steward enterprise engineering standards, lead enterprise design and code reviews, serve as technical escalation for cross-domain incidents, design architectures handling protected health information, provide technical direction for vendor solutions
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic scope
