Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HireQ Talent is partnering with an innovative Health Tech organisation that uses healthcare data to improve patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and clinical decision-making. The Senior Data Platform Engineer will build and own a greenfield Microsoft Fabric data platform, designing scalable pipelines, data products, analytics solutions, governance practices, and engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale a modern Microsoft Fabric data platform
- Own platform architecture across Lakehouse, warehouse, semantic, and analytics layers
- Drive the transition from early-stage capability to enterprise-scale production environment
- Make key technology decisions that balance performance, compliance, scalability, and future innovation
- Partner with senior stakeholders to define the organisation's long-term data strategy
- Develop highly scalable and resilient data pipelines
- Integrate data from healthcare systems, SaaS applications, APIs, databases, and operational platforms
- Build ingestion, transformation, and orchestration frameworks using modern engineering principles
- Implement monitoring, observability, and data quality controls to ensure trusted and reliable insights
- Optimise platform performance to support growing data volumes and analytical demand
- Develop trusted semantic models and enterprise Power BI solutions
- Create governed data products that enable self-service analytics across the business
- Support executive reporting, operational intelligence, predictive analytics, and future AI initiatives
- Establish consistent metrics, definitions, and reporting standards across the organisation
- Help unlock the full value of healthcare data to improve business and patient outcomes
- Introduce CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and modern DevOps practices
- Implement governance, security, privacy, and access controls aligned to healthcare regulations
- Establish best practices for documentation, testing, deployment, and platform support
- Mentor stakeholders and influence technical standards across the wider business
- Shape the roadmap for a world-class data function
Skills
- Significant experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or a similar role
- Experience designing and delivering modern cloud-based data platforms
- Strong expertise with Microsoft Fabric, including several of the following:
- OneLake
- Fabric Lakehouse
- Fabric Warehouse
- Data Factory
- Notebooks
- Power BI
- Semantic Models
- Dataflows
- Advanced SQL development skills
- Python and/or PySpark experience
- Strong understanding of dimensional modelling and data warehousing concepts
- Experience building enterprise-scale data integration and pipeline solutions
- Strong Power BI development expertise, including DAX optimisation and performance tuning
- Hands-on experience with Git, source control, CI/CD, and modern software engineering practices
- Strong knowledge of data governance, security, compliance, and data quality frameworks
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- HealthTech, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated industry experience would be highly advantageous but is not essential
Benefits
- Fully remote flexibility: Work from anywhere in the USA while collaborating with a highly engaged and technology-driven team.
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Significant career growth opportunities
- High levels of autonomy and influence
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