Principal Data Engineer

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Abacus Insights

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51 - 200 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

Healthcare Insurance • SaaS • Data Management

Abacus Insights is a leader in health plan data solutions that empowers healthcare payers by providing usable and interoperable data. The company offers a comprehensive suite of data solutions designed to address complex government mandates and improve payer readiness. Abacus Insights' platform is capable of consolidating and normalizing diverse data sources into comprehensive patient records, ensuring data accuracy, and facilitating timely data updates. Their solutions support multiple use cases, including risk adjustment, clinical data exchange, cost management, and performance reporting. With a focus on technology and healthcare, Abacus Insights helps payers manage costs and improve member experiences through enhanced data management capabilities.

📋 Description

• Architect Enterprise‑Scale Data Solutions: Design, build, and evolve high‑volume batch and real‑time data pipelines using PySpark, SparkSQL, Databricks Workflows, and distributed processing frameworks. • Own Platform‑Level Integrations: Develop end‑to‑end ingestion and transformation frameworks integrating Databricks, Snowflake, AWS services (such as S3, SQS, Lambda), and external data provider APIs, with a strong focus on data quality, lineage, and schema evolution. • Lead Technical Design for Clients: Serve as the technical lead for complex client implementations, defining highly available, fault‑tolerant architectures across multi‑account cloud environments. • Translate Business Needs into Architecture: Convert complex business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical designs, detailed specifications, and reusable engineering patterns. • Set Engineering Standards: Establish and champion best practices across CI/CD, code quality, testing, orchestration, monitoring, logging, and observability for data platforms. • Ensure Security & Compliance: Design and implement security‑first data solutions, including RBAC, encryption, PHI handling, auditability, and alignment with HIPAA and SOC 2 requirements. • Optimize Performance & Cost: Profile and tune compute workloads, cluster configurations, partitioning strategies, indexing, and caching across Databricks and Snowflake environments. • Provide Technical Mentorship: Mentor senior and junior engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and raise the overall technical bar across teams. • Produce Technical Artifacts: Create clear documentation, including architecture diagrams, runbooks, and operational standards that support scalable delivery.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of hands‑on experience designing and operating large‑scale, distributed data systems in cloud‑based environments. • Expert‑level proficiency in Python, SQL, and PySpark, including performance‑optimized distributed transformations. • Proven experience building and operating production‑grade ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, Airflow, or similar orchestration frameworks. • Strong working knowledge of AWS‑based data services (e.g., S3, SQS, Lambda, IAM) or equivalent cloud technologies. • Experience working with dbt, Delta Lake, Kafka, or event‑driven architectures in modern data platforms. • Hands‑on experience with Snowflake or other cloud data warehouses, including schema design and performance optimization. • Demonstrated ability to design scalable, resilient systems requiring specialized knowledge of distributed computing and cloud‑scale data processing. • Working experience with healthcare data domains such as claims, eligibility, provider, or clinical datasets. • Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical partners. • Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited paid time off – recharge when you need it • Work from anywhere – flexibility to fit your life • Comprehensive health coverage – multiple plan options to choose from • Equity for every employee – share in our success • Growth-focused environment – your development matters here • Home office setup allowance – one-time support to get you started • Monthly cell phone allowance – stay connected with ease