Remote Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform

About Virtasant

Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 technology professionals across 130+ countries. We specialize in cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, and optimization, helping enterprises scale efficiently while maintaining cost control.
Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups, relying on us to build high-performance infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and enable continuous delivery at scale.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join us and work with our clients Data Platform team. Our client is a leading healthcare technology company, dedicated to transforming the patient and provider experience through innovative, data-driven solutions.
You will architect and build core services, automation tools, and integrations that power our clients data ecosystem. You’ll own high-impact platform components, improve pipeline reliability and observability, and partner closely with data engineering, analytics, and DevOps to advance the scalability and developer experience of our clients data platform.

For this role, we can only consider candidates located in contiguous US states.
Also, we are only able to consider candidates who are either US citizens, or Green Card Holders, or sole proprietors of their own LLC company.

We are NOT able to consider candidates on any kind of visa that requires sponsorship, like STEM OPT, H4 EAD, F-1 OPT, L-2S, CPT, etc.

What You’ll Do

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.

What We’re Looking For

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.

Must-Have Experience

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

Nice-to-haves

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 )

Our recruitment process
Recruiter interview (30 min)

Technical Interview (45 min)

Screening interview with the clients hiring manager (30 min)

Client technical interview (45 min)

We strive to move efficiently from step to step to make the recruitment process as fast as possible.

What we offer
Totally remote within the contiguous United States, full-time (40h/week)

Stable, long-term independent contract agreement

Work hours - US Eastern time office hours