Senior Data Platform Engineer

Senior Data Platform Engineer

Founded in 2023 as a mission-driven health affiliate of Texas Mutual, Texicare was created by a group of seasoned healthcare professionals, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Texicare is committed to changing the healthcare landscape by providing small businesses with innovative solutions that increase access to easy-to-use, more affordable, quality health care for Texans and their families. Texicare's vision is to transform the healthcare ecosystem for the better, helping to create a healthier and happier Texas. Our healthcare plans were designed to be used, to remove barriers to care, to truly make a difference in people's lives.

We're looking for passionate, mission-driven individuals to join us in creating a healthier and happier Texas.

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer at Texicare, you'll help build and evolve the foundation that powers data across the organization. You'll architect and operate the core data platform, designing scalable data pipelines, optimizing our Snowflake environment, and developing reliable infrastructure that enables trusted data for analytics, operations, and business decision-making. Using a modern data stack—including Snowflake, Dagster, Coalesce, Tableau, Terraform, GitHub, and integrations with platforms such as Salesforce and Optum Stepwise—you'll solve complex engineering challenges while ensuring our platform remains secure, resilient, and compliant in a highly regulated healthcare environment.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role for someone who enjoys building platforms that others depend on. You'll partner closely with engineers, analysts, product teams, and business stakeholders to improve data reliability, performance, and governance while influencing the technical direction of our platform. Beyond delivering solutions, you'll mentor teammates, share best practices, and help foster a culture of engineering excellence. If you're energized by solving difficult technical problems, taking ownership of critical infrastructure, and making a meaningful impact on a growing organization, you'll thrive on Texicare's Data Platform team.

Essential Job Functions

• Architect and evolve core data platform components to be robust, scalable, and maintainable.
• Design and deliver secure, high-performing end-to-end data workflows in partnership with technical and business teams.
• Build and operate data pipelines and orchestration workflows, ensuring reliable scheduling, lineage, quality, and recoverability.
• Own platform infrastructure with a focus on uptime, repeatability, and operational excellence.
• Lead Snowflake operations including configuration, performance tuning, cost optimization, and scalable data modeling patterns.
• Integrate diverse sources to enable a unified, governed data strategy across the organization.
• Drive reliability and security through monitoring/alerting, incident troubleshooting, IAM controls, encryption, and healthcare compliance alignment (e.g., HIPAA), while mentoring others on best practices and documentation.
• Develop and host training/demos for business and technical users on how to interact with relevant parts of the data platform

To be successful in this role, you must have:

• A bachelor's degree or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• At least 4 years of experience in SQL and at least 2 years in Python or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Experience with Git and building CI/CD pipelines (ex. GitHub Actions)

It would be great if you have:

• Healthcare experience
• Experience with Snowflake and/or Dagster

Benefits

• Automatic 4% employer contribution to retirement plan
• 401k plan with 100% match up to 6%
• Flexible time off for vacation, illness, etc.
• Nine paid holidays
• Day one health, Rx, vision, and dental insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Pet coverage and pet Rx discounts
• Free identity theft protection
• Free 2nd medical opinion service

Location

Texicare offers a flex-hybrid environment centered around collaboration and connection. All employees must reside in Texas. Team members living in the Austin area are expected to work from our office at least two days per week. Those based outside the greater Austin area may work remotely within Texas, with occasional travel to Austin as needed.

Texicare is an equal opportunity employer.