Blend360

Lead Data Engineer

Columbia, MD, United States · Remote (restrictions not stated) · Full-time

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EmployerBlend360
LocationColumbia, MD, United States
Work styleRemote (restrictions not stated)
Employment typeFull-time
Employer posted2 months ago

We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to support a large-scale healthcare data platform initiative focused on modernizing data ingestion, automation, and semantic layer capabilities within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role will play a critical part in building scalable, reliable, and business-ready data solutions that enable enterprise analytics and reporting across the organization.

The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on engineering expertise, deep knowledge of cloud-native data platforms, and experience leading technical implementation efforts in complex enterprise healthcare environments.

What You’ll Do

Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines supporting enterprise healthcare analytics and reporting use cases
Lead automation efforts across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and operational monitoring workflows
Develop and maintain ingestion frameworks for structured and semi-structured healthcare data sources
Build and expand semantic data layers within GCP and BigQuery to support consistent, trusted business reporting and analytics consumption
Design scalable ELT/ETL workflows leveraging modern cloud-native architecture patterns
Partner closely with architects, analytics teams, and business stakeholders to translate data requirements into scalable technical solutions
Optimize BigQuery performance, partitioning, and cost management strategies
Implement engineering best practices for testing, observability, reliability, and deployment automation
Support data governance, data quality, and metadata management initiatives across the platform
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across delivery teams

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Required Skills

Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), particularly:

BigQuery
Cloud Storage
Cloud Composer / orchestration tooling
Dataflow or modern ingestion frameworks

Experience designing and building scalable data ingestion and pipeline automation frameworks
Strong understanding of semantic layer development and dimensional modeling concepts
Advanced SQL and Python development skills
Experience with ETL/ELT pipeline design and orchestration
Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and cloud engineering best practices
Strong understanding of data quality, observability, and operational reliability principles
Experieng with AI driven workflows, and orchestration design patterns.

Preferred Experience

Experience working with healthcare data ecosystems and regulated enterprise environments
Familiarity with healthcare data standards or payer/provider analytics platforms
Experience supporting enterprise BI and analytics initiatives
Exposure to dbt, Looker, or semantic modeling frameworks is a plus

Required Experience

7+ years of experience in data engineering or cloud data platform development
Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud data solutions in GCP environments
Experience leading technical workstreams or mentoring engineering teams
Consulting or client-facing experience strongly preferred

What Makes You Successful

You are passionate about building scalable and maintainable cloud-native data solutions
You balance hands-on engineering execution with technical leadership and collaboration
You communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders
You thrive in fast-paced, delivery-focused environments
You bring strong ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement mindset to your work

The starting pay range for this role is $125,000 - $160,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, certifications, training, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range and determining factors for compensation are considered for each individual circumstance. BLEND360 also offers a competitive benefits program to meet the health and financial well-being of our team and their families. You can look forward to a range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401K, PTO, paid holidays, commuter benefits, spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, and EAPs.

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