Senior Data Engineer
Job Location:
Ankeny, IA - USA
Yearly Salary:
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Job Summary
The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for complex design development deployment operational support technical communication mentoring and continuous improvement across Moms Meals data and integration platforms. This role works independently on complex assignments and provides guidance to junior and mid-level engineers.
The Senior Data Engineer may operate broadly across Databricks dbt Cloud Power BI Azure Data Factory Lakeflow Azure DevOps and related Azure services or may serve as a senior specialist within a specific platform area. This role bridges hands-on engineering delivery with solution design platform reliability compliance-aware implementation stakeholder communication and team leadership.
The successful candidate must be able to communicate with technical teams business stakeholders external partners infrastructure information security network teams and leadership.
Remote hires will be required to travel to our headquarters in Ankeny IA (company paid) their first few days for new hire orientation training and onboarding.
At this time we are NOT considering applicants that require immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT F1-CPT H-1B TN L-1 J-1 etc.
Salary range: $00 plus 10% annual bonus target
Benefits
Our employees enjoy a generous package of benefits that we are thrilled to provide and feel is part of what makes us different as an employer. We value our team members and this is one way we can show it.
Benefits include:
-PTO holiday pay and holiday of choice
-401(k) match
-Life insurance
-Short-term disability
-Health dental and vision insurance
-Maternity/paternity leave
-Health savings account (HSA)
-Flex spending accounts (FSA) health and dependent
Platform and Operational Leadership
- Lead operational support for assigned pipelines integrations APIs reports jobs models datasets and platform services
- Improve monitoring alerting logging notifications reconciliation runbooks and support procedures
- Drive root-cause analysis and permanent remediation for recurring production issues
- Advocate for automation-driven administration monitoring and notification services
- Support production readiness release planning deployment coordination and operational handoff
Solution Design and Senior Engineering Delivery
- Design and deliver complex platform solutions across data engineering integration analytics reporting and platform operations
- Lead technical design for data pipelines API integrations file-based exchanges sFTP flows EDI-related interactions dbt models semantic structures Databricks workflows Power BI data assets and analytics delivery processes
- Apply architecture standards platform patterns naming conventions testing expectations documentation practices and operational requirements
- Identify technical risks performance concerns supportability gaps and design tradeoffs
- Review designs code models integration flows test plans and deployment plans created by other engineers
Azure DevOps CI/CD and Delivery Coordination
- Help improve CI/CD practices across platforms
- Coordinate technical delivery testing deployment readiness release notes and production validation
- Lead assigned Azure DevOps features user stories tasks bugs requirements and documentation
- Ensure ADO work items include accurate progress decisions blockers risks and testing evidence
- Support sprint planning backlog refinement work estimation and stakeholder reporting
Cross-Platform Data and Integration Enablement
- Ensure upstream integrations and downstream data products are aligned reliable traceable and supportable
- Support medallion architecture design and implementation across source-to-bronze bronze-to-silver and silver-to-gold patterns
- Lead assigned work across Databricks dbt Power BI ADF Lakeflow Azure DevOps or related services
- Support healthcare-focused data domains and partner reporting needs
- Guide semantic consistency across dbt Databricks Power BI and analytics engine outputs
Communication Mentoring and Collaboration
- Communicate complex technical topics clearly to business and technology audiences
- Prepare design summaries technical documentation decision records diagrams implementation plans and operational updates
- Mentor Junior Data Engineers and Data Engineers
- Coordinate work with onshore and offshore resources as assigned
- Collaborate with infrastructure information security network application integration reporting and business teams
Security and Compliance
- Ensure assigned solutions align with HIPAA HITRUST privacy security and internal compliance expectations
- Support secure data movement access control encryption logging controls auditability and sensitive data handling
- Participate in security reviews control documentation audit support and remediation activities as needed
- Promote compliance-aware engineering practices within the team
- Significant experience building and supporting data pipelines integrations analytics platforms reporting data assets or cloud data solutions
- Strong experience with several relevant technologies such as Databricks dbt Power BI ADF Lakeflow Azure DevOps SQL Python Spark APIs sFTP or EDI-related data exchanges
- Experience designing production-ready solutions and supporting operational environments
- Experience with CI/CD source control testing deployment and release practices
- Ability to guide other engineers and lead technical work
- Strong communication documentation troubleshooting and stakeholder management skills
- Understanding of HIPAA HITRUST PHI handling privacy and healthcare compliance expectations
Performance Expectations
- Deliver complex secure scalable and supportable platform solutions
- Lead design deployment and operational improvement activities
- Improve platform reliability through automation monitoring and documentation
- Provide clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences
- Mentor other engineers and improve team execution
- Maintain strong Azure DevOps documentation and delivery tracking
- Demonstrate strong judgment ownership and collaboration
- Repetitive motions that include the wrists hands and/or fingers
- Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting remaining in a stationary position for prolonged periods
- Visual perception to perform job including peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
Required Experience:
Senior IC
