Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Virtasant is a global technology services company specializing in cloud architecture and optimization. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to work with a leading healthcare technology client, responsible for architecting and building core services, automation tools, and integrations to enhance the client's data ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Build Automation & Tooling: Develop scalable backend services, APIs, and internal tools to automate data platform workflows (e.g., data onboarding, validation, pipeline orchestration, schema tracking, quality monitoring)
• Data Platform Integration: Integrate tools with core data infrastructure, building pipelines (Airflow, Spark, dbt, Kafka, Snowflake, or similar) to expose capabilities via APIs and UIs
• Observability & Governance: Build visualization and monitoring components for data lineage, job health, and quality metrics
• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with data engineering, product, and DevOps teams to define requirements and deliver end-to-end solutions

Skills

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or software development with at least 5 years building production-grade data or platform services
• Strong programming skills in Python & SQL and at least one major data platform (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or similar)
• Develop tooling for schema evolution, data contracts, and developer self-service
• Deep experience with streaming, distributed compute, or S3-based table formats (Spark, Kafka, Iceberg/Delta/Hudi)
• Experience with schema governance, metadata systems, and data quality frameworks
• Understanding of orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, etc.)
• Solid grasp of CI/CD and Docker
• At least 2 years of experience in AWS
• Experience with building data pipelines using dbt
• You have to live in the contiguous United States and have all the necessary documentation to work under an independent contractor agreement
• We cannot offer sponsorships or sponsorship transfers, so unfortunately, we CANNOT consider candidates on H1B, OPT, EAD, or CPT visas
• Experience with data observability, data catalog, or metadata management tools
• Experience working with healthcare data (X12, FHIR)
• Proven experience in data migration projects (legacy technologies to the latest technologies)
• Experience building internal developer platforms or data portals
• Understanding of authentication/authorization (OAuth2, JWT, SSO)

Benefits

• Totally remote within the contiguous United States, full-time (40h/week)
• Stable, long-term independent contract agreement
• Work hours - US Eastern time office hours

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