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Lead Data Engineer

Columbia, MD, us💼 Full-time💰 $125,000–$125,000🗓 2026-08-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and semantic layers on Google Cloud Platform to enable enterprise healthcare analytics and reporting.

Role type

Lead Data Engineer (Cloud Data Platform)

Builds

Scalable ELT/ETL workflows, ingestion frameworks, and semantic data layers within GCP/BigQuery

Domain

Healthcare + Cloud Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Dataflow, SQL, Python, ETL/ELT design, CI/CD, data quality, observability, technical leadership

Preferred skills

Healthcare data ecosystems, healthcare data standards, enterprise BI, dbt, Looker, semantic modeling frameworks

Technologies

GCP, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer, Dataflow, dbt, Looker

Responsibilities

Design scalable data ingestion and pipeline automation frameworks; Develop and maintain ingestion frameworks for structured and semi-structured healthcare data; Build and expand semantic data layers; Optimize BigQuery performance and cost management; Implement engineering best practices for testing and deployment automation; Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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