[Remote] Data Engineer (East Coast Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Empassion Health is a Management Services Organization focused on improving the quality of care for advanced illness and end-of-life patients. They are seeking a Data Engineer to join their Data & Analytics team, where the role involves collaborating with various teams to build reliable data pipelines and models that enhance patient care insights. Responsibilities • Partner with teams across the business and external partners to understand data needs and deliver reliable pipelines and models that solve real problems. • Build and maintain scalable ingestion and egress pipelines in Airflow and dbt Cloud, ensuring high quality, automated data flows across cloud environments. • Implement unit tests and monitoring to guarantee data integrity and reproducibility. • Model and transform and structure healthcare datasets into usable formats that power data science models, and other reporting marts • Enhance and scale data models with SQL and dbt, ensuring precision and adaptability for new partnerships. • Write Python code for Apache Airflow DAGs, components and utilities that orchestrate and monitor data workflows. Build complex pipelines that enable flexible scheduling, conditional logic, and smooth integration across multiple data sources. Skills • 1 - 4 years in data engineering or analytics engineering with proven ability to build pipelines and scalable workflows. • Strong SQL skills for querying large, complex datasets. • Proficiency in Python for data engineering tasks (transformations, APIs, automation). • Experience with cloud data warehouses and storage (GCP preferred: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Composer; AWS/Azure equivalents acceptable). • Hands on experience with dbt or similar data modeling tools. • Comfort working in collaborative dev/staging/prod environments, partnering with Product and Tech to safely test, launch, and anticipate the impact of new changes. • Curiosity about operational workflows and a drive to partner with non-technical teams, ensuring data and reporting align with how the business actually runs. • A proactive, problem-solving mindset and ability to thrive in fast-paced, iterative environments. • Strong communication skills to collaborate with analysts, engineers, and business stakeholders. • Knowledge of healthcare data (claims, ADT feeds, eligibility files). • Familiarity with Git/GitHub for version control. • Early-stage startup experience (seed/Series A), especially mission-driven ones. • Experience building semantic layers and data models in Looker (LookML). Company Overview • Empassion Health is a provider of comprehensive care services for patients with advanced illnesses. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.empassion.com. Company H1B Sponsorship • Empassion Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job