Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mom’s Meals is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to design, deliver, and operate data and integration platform solutions. The role leads technical delivery and platform reliability, supports healthcare-focused data products and compliance, and mentors engineers while collaborating with business and technology stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead operational support for assigned pipelines, integrations, APIs, reports, jobs, models, datasets, and platform services
- Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, notifications, reconciliation, runbooks, and support procedures
- Drive root-cause analysis and permanent remediation for recurring production issues
- Advocate for automation-driven administration, monitoring, and notification services
- Support production readiness, release planning, deployment coordination, and operational handoff
- Design and deliver complex platform solutions across data engineering, integration, analytics, reporting, and platform operations
- Lead technical design for data pipelines, API integrations, file-based exchanges, sFTP flows, EDI-related interactions, dbt models, semantic structures, Databricks workflows, Power BI data assets, and analytics delivery processes
- Apply architecture standards, platform patterns, naming conventions, testing expectations, documentation practices, and operational requirements
- Identify technical risks, performance concerns, supportability gaps, and design tradeoffs
- Review designs, code, models, integration flows, test plans, and deployment plans created by other engineers
- Help improve CI/CD practices across platforms
- Coordinate technical delivery, testing, deployment readiness, release notes, and production validation
- Lead assigned Azure DevOps features, user stories, tasks, bugs, requirements, and documentation
- Ensure ADO work items include accurate progress, decisions, blockers, risks, and testing evidence
- Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, work estimation, and stakeholder reporting
- Ensure upstream integrations and downstream data products are aligned, reliable, traceable, and supportable
- Support medallion architecture design and implementation across source-to-bronze, bronze-to-silver, and silver-to-gold patterns
- Lead assigned work across Databricks, dbt, Power BI, ADF, Lakeflow, Azure DevOps, or related services
- Support healthcare-focused data domains and partner reporting needs
- Guide semantic consistency across dbt, Databricks, Power BI, and analytics engine outputs
- Communicate complex technical topics clearly to business and technology audiences
- Prepare design summaries, technical documentation, decision records, diagrams, implementation plans, and operational updates
- Mentor Junior Data Engineers and Data Engineers
- Coordinate work with onshore and offshore resources as assigned
- Collaborate with infrastructure, information security, network, application, integration, reporting, and business teams
- Ensure assigned solutions align with HIPAA, HITRUST, privacy, security, and internal compliance expectations
- Support secure data movement, access control, encryption, logging controls, auditability, and sensitive data handling
- Participate in security reviews, control documentation, audit support, and remediation activities as needed
- Promote compliance-aware engineering practices within the team
Skills
- At this time, we are NOT considering applicants that require immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc
- Significant experience building and supporting data pipelines, integrations, analytics platforms, reporting data assets, or cloud data solutions
- Strong experience with several relevant technologies such as Databricks, dbt, Power BI, ADF, Lakeflow, Azure DevOps, SQL, Python, Spark, APIs, sFTP, or EDI-related data exchanges
- Experience designing production-ready solutions and supporting operational environments
- Experience with CI/CD, source control, testing, deployment, and release practices
- Ability to guide other engineers and lead technical work
- Strong communication, documentation, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills
- Understanding of HIPAA, HITRUST, PHI handling, privacy, and healthcare compliance expectations
Benefits
- PTO
- Holiday pay
- Holiday of choice
- 401(k) match
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Maternity/paternity leave
- Health savings account (HSA)
- Flex spending accounts (FSA) – health and dependent
- Remote work; remote hires travel to headquarters in Ankeny, IA for their first few days for new hire orientation, training, and onboarding, with travel company paid
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