Lead Data Engineer at Blend360

BLEND360 is an acclaimed, forward-thinking Data, Digital Marketing, & AI Solutions Company, dedicated to fueling remarkable outcomes for our Fortune 500 clients. Our trajectory is one of continuous expansion, emerging at the crossroads of cutting-edge analytics, data proficiency, technology, and digital marketing excellence. We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer to support a large-scale healthcare data platform initiative focused on modernizing data ingestion, automation, and semantic layer capabilities within Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role will play a critical part in building scalable, reliable, and business-ready data solutions that enable enterprise analytics and reporting across the organization.  The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on engineering expertise, deep knowledge of cloud-native data platforms, and experience leading technical implementation efforts in complex enterprise healthcare environments.  What You’ll Do  Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines supporting enterprise healthcare analytics and reporting use cases   Lead automation efforts across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and operational monitoring workflows   Develop and maintain ingestion frameworks for structured and semi-structured healthcare data sources   Build and expand semantic data layers within GCP and BigQuery to support consistent, trusted business reporting and analytics consumption   Design scalable ELT/ETL workflows leveraging modern cloud-native architecture patterns   Partner closely with architects, analytics teams, and business stakeholders to translate data requirements into scalable technical solutions   Optimize BigQuery performance, partitioning, and cost management strategies   Implement engineering best practices for testing, observability, reliability, and deployment automation   Support data governance, data quality, and metadata management initiatives across the platform   Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across delivery teams   Required Skills  Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), particularly:   BigQuery Cloud Storage Cloud Composer / orchestration tooling Dataflow or modern ingestion frameworks   Experience designing and building scalable data ingestion and pipeline automation frameworks   Strong understanding of semantic layer development and dimensional modeling concepts   Advanced SQL and Python development skills   Experience with ETL/ELT pipeline design and orchestration   Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and cloud engineering best practices   Strong understanding of data quality, observability, and operational reliability principles  Experieng with AI driven workflows, and orchestration design patterns.  Preferred Experience  Experience working with healthcare data ecosystems and regulated enterprise environments   Familiarity with healthcare data standards or payer/provider analytics platforms   Experience supporting enterprise BI and analytics initiatives   Exposure to dbt, Looker, or semantic modeling frameworks is a plus   Required Experience  7+ years of experience in data engineering or cloud data platform development   Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud data solutions in GCP environments   Experience leading technical workstreams or mentoring engineering teams   Consulting or client-facing experience strongly preferred   What Makes You Successfu l  You are passionate about building scalable and maintainable cloud-native data solutions   You balance hands-on engineering execution with technical leadership and collaboration   You communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders   You thrive in fast-paced, delivery-focused environments   You bring strong ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement mindset to your work   The starting pay range for this role is $125,000 - $160,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, certifications, training, and location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range and determining factors for compensation are considered for each individual circumstance. BLEND360 also offers a competitive benefits program to meet the health and financial well-being of our team and their families. You can look forward to a range of benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401K, PTO, paid holidays, commuter benefits, spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, and EAPs.