Senior Data Engineer

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More About This Role

We're building a near real-time streaming data platform for operational data across the business. We seek a Senior Data Engineer to both build/extend and operate it: you'll build the infrastructure and you'll own the platform in production - latency and throughput SLOs, backpressure under spiky load, replay and backfill, dead-letter triage, and connector failure recovery. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to build, extend, and operate a live production platform, not just design it and hand it off.

You are self-driven, calm under production pressure, and comfortable owning streaming systems in a regulated environment.

You Will

*Take full-lifecycle ownership of the streaming platform - architecture, implementation, production operations.*

• Run the platform in production: own latency/throughput SLOs, monitoring and alerting (e.g. Datadog) - including replays, per-source backfills, connector-failure recovery, dead-letter triage, and tuning for spiky, batch-driven claims load.
• Build and extend streaming pipelines that ingest CDC events from operational databases and SaaS sources into canonical, contract-validated form.
• Transform and enrich in Spark (Structured Streaming or dbt-on-Spark micro-batch), including cross-stream joins that correlate events into unified lifecycle entities.
• Enable secure, governed data access over PHI: classification, row/column controls, and access policy applied as data is served to consumers (e.g. ABAC).
• Make it reliable and observable: idempotent/replayable pipeline design, data-quality validation, runbooks, and observa