Senior Data Engineer

🕒 September 23

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $115k - $143.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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eHealth, Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1997

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2021-01

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

eHealth, Inc. is a technology and services company that connects individuals with healthcare plans and services. The company provides a platform that helps consumers find, compare, and enroll in health insurance plans including Medicare, individual and family health insurance, small business health insurance, and ancillary plans. eHealth also offers advisory services to help guide customers through the complex process of choosing the right plan for their needs.

📋 Description

• Serve as a subject-matter expert on the data ecosystem, including internal systems and third-party data sources • Guide architectural decisions across teams • Architect, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and real-time streaming architectures • Design and drive adoption of workflow automation and orchestration standards • Lead technical design for production-grade ML pipelines and APIs serving model predictions • Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate pipeline development, code review, and testing • Establish team norms for effective and responsible use of AI-assisted development tools • Own data quality, observability, lineage, and governance strategy • Define monitoring, alerting, and metadata tracking best practices • Drive logical and physical data modeling efforts and schema design decisions • Partner with DevOps and infrastructure teams on platform architecture, performance optimization, and security/compliance strategy • Mentor junior and mid-level data engineers through code review, technical guidance, and knowledge-sharing • Evaluate emerging data tools and technologies • Make build-vs-buy and adoption recommendations to engineering leadership • Demonstrate eHealth's values in behaviors, practices, and decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field • 5+ years of related data engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree; 3+ years with a Master's degree; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience • Expert-level SQL for complex query development, optimization, and performance tuning across large datasets • Strong programming skills in Python or Scala • Deep experience in CI/CD, git workflows, testing, and code review • Proven experience architecting solutions on a cloud-native data platform such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks • Deep working knowledge of modern ETL/ELT frameworks such as dbt, Spark, Informatica, or Matillion • Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or Hive • Substantial experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, including S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, and EMR • Strong command of data modeling, data governance, and security principles • Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and/or leading technical initiatives • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and technical direction • Preferred: hands-on experience with Databricks and Delta Lake • Preferred: deep knowledge of event-driven architectures and tools such as Kafka and Kinesis • Preferred: experience designing RESTful APIs for data delivery and ML model serving • Preferred: experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production • Preferred: visualization experience with Tableau, Power BI, or Looker • Preferred: exposure to healthcare or health tech, including EHR, claims data, or call center analytics • Preferred: experience in regulated environments such as HIPAA or SOC 2 • Preferred: track record of driving automation, data observability, and proactive monitoring initiatives

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision beginning on your first day of employment • 401K with matching • Tuition reimbursement • Employee stock purchase program • 12 company paid holidays • Flexible time off (PTO for non-exempt) • Annual performance bonus • Benefits designed to support employees’ personal and professional wellness