Lead Data Engineer, Senior Data Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Virtasant

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏢 Enterprise

🤝 B2B

Consulting • Enterprise • B2B

Virtasant is a cloud services and optimization company that helps businesses migrate to, manage, and build on public cloud platforms. They combine a proprietary automation platform with managed services and FinOps expertise to reduce cloud costs (claiming average savings of over 50%), support Cloud FinOps programs, and deliver outcome-based engagements rather than hourly or seat-based billing. Virtasant also provides enterprise AI guidance and partners with major cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) to deliver migration, optimization, and 24/7 managed operations.

📋 Description

• Build connectors and pipelines from HR, scheduling, EHR, and external benchmark sources into Snowflake on Azure • Map enterprise data into a shared ontology and publish it to a Neo4j graph • Make customer data onboarding repeatable so new customer data can go live in days rather than months • Work with real, sensitive client data • Use AI-assisted development as a normal part of development • Lead: own the technical direction, design, standards, and work sequencing of a pod • Lead: work directly with client architects and data owners to agree source extracts, data contracts, and acceptance criteria • Lead: review engineers’ code and designs and remain accountable for pod deliverables • Senior: own significant components end to end, such as source connectors, mappings, or domain reconciliation • Build production data integrations that handle late files, schema drift, duplicates, and conflicting records • Validate incoming data, quarantine failures, and evolve schemas without breaking downstream systems • Ensure data totals reconcile with source systems, provide record-level lineage, and support idempotent reruns • Implement masking, tokenization, least-privilege access, audit trails, and sensitive-field controls • Build repeatable multi-tenant onboarding based on configuration and mapping rather than separate codebases • Build Azure storage, identity, and infrastructure-as-code components • Potentially travel domestically on occasion

🎯 Requirements

• Must be based in the United States • Authorized to work in the United States • Available around December 1, 2026 • Experience integrating messy enterprise source systems in production • Strong SQL and Python skills • Hands-on Snowflake experience • Experience building and running layered pipelines using dbt or equivalent • Experience with data contracts and versioned schemas • Experience with data quality, lineage, and reconciliation • Experience working with regulated or sensitive data under PHI/PII controls such as HIPAA • Experience building multi-tenant data platforms with strict per-customer isolation • Azure experience with storage, identity, and infrastructure as code using Terraform or Bicep • Daily use of coding assistants with verification of generated output • Lead level: experience leading a small engineering team, setting technical direction, and working directly with client architects and stakeholders • Senior level: ability to own significant pieces end to end, work independently, raise problems early, and work without day-to-day supervision • Strong plus: healthcare data experience with Workday, UKG, Epic, Cerner, or MEDITECH • Strong plus: graph database experience, ideally Neo4j • Strong plus: ontology or common data model mapping • Strong plus: entity resolution • Strong plus: external benchmark or reference data feeds • Strong plus: event-ready batch pipelines with idempotent loads and incremental refresh • Strong plus: OpenLineage or similar lineage and metadata standards • Strong plus: production data-feed monitoring for freshness, volume, and failure alerts

🏖️ Benefits

• Multi-month engagement, likely to extend • Fully remote work arrangement • Occasional domestic travel may be required

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