Sr. Staff Data Engineer

The Sr Staff Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines, infrastructure, and data visualization to support our data-driven decision-making processes. The scope of this job includes collaborating with data scientists, analysts, solutions partners, and other stakeholders to increase data quality, accessibility, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advise and leverage data pipelines, data models, reporting, and dashboards to solve business problems or assigned tasks in coordination with multiple teams.
• Research, develop, and maintain data solutions to enable new or existing solutions and BI development for the enterprise-driven data warehouse and data visualization solutions.
• Maintain and optimize current data infrastructure for performance, scalability, and reliability across all data workflows.
• Influence code reviews through WellSky solution subject matter expertise across multiple business units.
• Develop and train teammates for data security, architecture, and governance requirements while maintaining data quality standards through automation.
• Strategize business requirements and translate work into data engineering architecture while adhering to WellSky's core values, ensuring PHI data security, and adapting to changing BI technologies.
• Perform other job duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent work experience
• At least 12-15 years of related work experience
• Proven track record of successfully leading large-scale data platform migrations and modernization projects
• Core Platforms & Architecture:
  • BigQuery Expert: Advanced optimization, cost controls, Lakehouse architecture, and enterprise-scale migrations from legacy systems (MS SQL, Teradata, Oracle)
  • Data Architecture: Star schema design, dimensional modeling, and modern data platform patterns for analytics-ready solutions
  • Programming & Infrastructure: Python, SQL, Terraform for automated, scalable data engineering
• Modern Data Stack & Integration
  • Data Processing & Transformation: Dataflow, Airflow, dbt, Dataform for high-volume pipeline orchestration
  • Enterprise Integration: HVR/Fivetran or DataStream for real-time data replication across SQL Server, Snowflake, and BigQuery
  • Business Intelligence: Tableau, Looker, or Sisense with advanced user administration and performance optimization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare industry experience

Job Expectations:

• Willing to work additional or irregular hours as needed
• Must work in accordance with applicable security policies and procedures to safeguard company and client information
• Must be able to sit and view a computer screen for extended periods of time

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Here are some of the exciting benefits full-time teammates are eligible to receive at WellSky:

• Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Mental health benefits through TelaDoc
• Prescription drug coverage
• Generous paid time off, plus 13 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• 100% vested 401(K) retirement plans
• Educational assistance up to $2500 per year