Senior Data Engineer

Experience Required

6 - 20 years

Minimum Education Required

High School Diploma/G.E.D.

Compensation

$180,000.00 - $220,000.00 / yearly

Hours Per Week

40

Number Of Positions

1

Work Schedule and Shift Requirements

First (Day)

Job Description

Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country. Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives, Machinify brings together a fully configurable and content-rich, AI-powered platform along with best-in-class expertise. We're constantly reimagining what's possible in our industry, creating disruptively simple, powerfully clear ways to maximize financial outcomes and drive down healthcare costs.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll be at the heart of transformingraw external data into powerful, trusted datasetsthat drive payment, product, and operational decisions.You'llwork closely withproduct managers, data scientists, subject matter experts, engineers, and customer teamstobuild, scale, and refine production pipelines- ensuring data isaccurate, observable, and actionable.

You'll also play a critical role inonboarding new customers, integrating their raw data into ourinternal models. Your pipelines will directly power the company'sML models, dashboards, and core product experiences. If you enjoy owning end-to-end workflows, shaping data standards, and driving impact in a fast-moving environment, this is your opportunity.

What You'll Do

Design and implement robust, production-grade pipelines using Python, Spark SQL, and Airflow to process high-volume file-based datasets (CSV, Parquet, JSON).

Lead efforts to canonicalize raw healthcare data (837 claims, EHR, partner data, flat files) into internal models.

Own the full lifecycle of core pipelines - from file ingestion tovalidated,queryabledatasets - ensuring high reliability and performance.

Onboard new customers by integrating their raw data into internal pipelines and canonical models; collaborate with SMEs, Account Managers, and Product to ensure successful implementation and troubleshooting.

Build resilient, idempotent transformation logic with data quality checks, validation layers, and observability.

Refactor and scale existing pipelines to meet growing data and business needs.

Tune Spark jobs andoptimizedistributed processing performance.

Implementschema enforcement and versioning aligned with internal data standards.

Collaborate deeply with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Product Managers, Engineering, Platform, SMEs, and AMs to ensure pipelines meet evolving business needs.

Monitor pipeline health,participatein on-call rotations, and proactively debug and resolve production data flow issues.

Contribute to the evolution of our data platform - driving toward mature patterns in observability, testing, and automation.

Build and enhance streaming pipelines (Kafka, SQS, or similar) where needed to support near-real-time data needs.

Help develop and champion internal best practices around pipeline development and data modeling.

What You Bring

6+ years of experience as a Data Engineer (or equivalent), building production-grade pipelines.

Strongexpertisein Python, Spark SQL, and Airflow.

Experience processing large-scale file-based datasets (CSV, Parquet, JSON,etc) in production environments.

Experience mapping and standardizing raw external data into canonical models.

Familiarity with AWS (or any cloud), including file storage and distributed compute concepts.

Experience onboarding new customers and integrating external customer data with non-standard formats.

Ability to work across teams, manage priorities, and own complex data workflows with minimal supervision.

Strong written and verbal communication skills - able to explain technical concepts to non-engineering partners.

Comfortable designing pipelines from scratch and improving existing pipelines.

Experience working with large-scale or messy datasets (healthcare, financial, logs, etc.).

Experience building or willingness to learn streaming pipelines using tools such as Kafka or SQS.

Bonus: Familiarity with healthcare data (837, 835, EHR, UB04, claims normalization).

Why Join Us

Real impact - your pipelines will directly support decision-making and claims payment outcomes from day one.

High visibility - partner with ML, Product, Analytics, Platform, Operations, and Customer teams on critical data initiatives.

Total ownership -you'lldrive the lifecycle of core datasets powering our platform.

Customer-facing impact- you will directly contribute to successfulcustomer onboardingand data integration.

What We Offer

Workfrom anywhere in the US!Machinifyis digital-first.

Full Medical/Dental/Vision for employees & their families

Flexible and trusting environment whereyou'llfeel empowered to do your best work

Unlimited FTO

Competitive salary, equity, 401(k) including employer match

The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc. The base salary range for this role is $180k-$220k. We are hiring for different levels, and our Recruiting team will let you know if you qualify for a different role/range. Salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes meaningful equity, excellent healthcare, flexible time off, and other benefits and perks.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Machinify

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of r ace, color, ancestry, r eligion, s ex, national origin, s exual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Machinify is an employment at will employer. We participate in E-Verify as required by applicable law. In accordance with applicable state laws, we do not inquire about salary history during the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruitment process, please let our recruiters know. See our Candidate Privacy Notice at:

Equal Opportunity Employer

Veteran Friendly Employer

Job Type

Full time

Benefits Offered

Not specified

Veteran Preference

No

Place of Work

On-site

Requisition ID

4116095009