Senior/Lead Data Engineer

Senior/Lead Data Engineer Remote - CST Hours, Within US only Max Vendor Rate - *** Senior/Lead Data Engineer Position Summary Seeking a hands-on Senior/Lead Data Engineer with 8+ years of experience to design, build, and support scalable cloud data solutions for healthcare reporting, analytics, and operational use cases. The role requires strong expertise in Snowflake, Informatica IDMC, ETL/ELT, dimensional data warehousing, Python, CI/CD, and AWS or Databricks, with technical ownership expected at the Lead level. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable batch and near-real-time data pipelines using Snowflake and IDMC. Implement ETL/ELT solutions, dimensional models, and SCD Types 1 and 2 for enterprise DW. Develop efficient SQL and Python components, reusable frameworks, automation, and validation utilities. Build CI/CD pipelines for data code, IDMC assets, Snowflake objects, testing, and environment promotion. Optimize Snowflake performance, scalability, reliability, security, and cost; support AWS and/or Databricks workloads. Implement data quality, reconciliation, lineage, monitoring, governance, and audit controls. Troubleshoot production issues and partner with architecture, QA, DevOps, analytics, and business teams. Lead design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and drive engineering standards and solution ownership. Required Qualifications 8+ years in data engineering, ETL development, and enterprise data warehousing. Strong Snowflake expertise in SQL, data loading, security, performance tuning, scalability, and cost optimization. Strong IDMC development experience with CDI mappings, tasks, taskflows, parameters, deployment, and monitoring. Proficiency in Python and SQL, plus Git-based CI/CD using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools. Hands-on experience with AWS data services and/or Databricks/Spark, including data quality, governance, and production support. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience. Healthcare data experience across claims, eligibility, provider, clinical, or pharmacy domains. Exposure to Snowpark, PySpark, AWS Glue/S3/Lambda, streaming, or automated data testing. Snowflake, Informatica, AWS, or Databricks certification is a plus. Apolis