{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"3f56a0010d2ecb77eeb177a4","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3f56a0010d2ecb77eeb177a4","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3f56a0010d2ecb77eeb177a4","title":"Senior Data Engineer","description":"Senior Data Engineer\nat Zócalo Health\nRemote (Full Time)\nCompensation: $160,000 - $180,000 (per year)\n\nAbout Us\nZócalo Health is a tech-enabled, community-oriented primary care organization serving people who have historically been underserved by the one-size-fits-all healthcare system. We partner with health plans, providers, and community organizations to deliver culturally competent primary care, behavioral health, and social care.\nOur model is built for populations with high medical and social complexity, where fragmented care drives poor outcomes and unnecessary cost. We combine local, community-based teams with virtual care and modern technology to deliver coordinated, whole-person care where members live and receive support.\nFounded in 2021, Zócalo Health is backed by leading healthcare and mission-aligned investors and is scaling rapidly across states and populations. We are building a durable care platform designed to perform in constrained healthcare environments and to lead the shift toward accountable, value-based care.\n\nRole Description\nThe Senior Data Engineer will join Zócalo Health as we build the data platform that powers analytics, product measurement, and operational visibility across the company. This is a hands-on building role at a foundational stage: you will design and ship the pipelines, ingestion frameworks, and data models that the rest of the company depends on.\nThe primary focus of this role is establishing a scalable, durable data platform. This includes laying the groundwork for longer-term initiatives such as the longitudinal patient record, population-level analytics, and product instrumentation. You will partner closely with Engineering and Product to ensure the data platform supports roadmap priorities and outcome measurement as the company grows.\nThis position reports to the Principal Data Engineer and partners closely with Engineering and Product.\n\nIn your first 12 months, you will:\nBuild and operate production-grade ingestion pipelines from core clinical, operational, and third-party systems into our Databricks lakehouse\nDevelop and maintain dbt models that turn raw data into clean, well-documented, analytics-ready datasets\nEstablish data quality, testing, and monitoring practices that make pipelines reliable and trustworthy\nHelp shape ingestion patterns and architecture standards alongside the Principal Data Engineer\nEnable company-wide metrics for care outcomes and operations\nCollaborate with cross-functional leads to develop and iterate on a suite of core operational dashboards, ensuring teams have the self-service tools they need to track company metrics and outcomes.\n\nThe Senior Data Engineer will contribute in the following ways:\nDesign, build, and operate production data pipelines across clinical, operational, and third-party systems using API-based ingestion, Change Data Capture (CDC), and event- or webhook-driven patterns\nBuild and maintain transformation layers in dbt, including tests, documentation, and reusable models\nDevelop and refine core analytical and longitudinal data models used across the company\nImplement testing, monitoring, and observability to ensure data quality, pipeline reliability, and system performance\nApply strong engineering fundamentals to improve the scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency of data systems on AWS and Databricks\nPartner with Product to support metric definitions, outcome measurement, and reporting needs\nContribute to engineering standards, code review, and a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement\nPartner with business, product, and engineering stakeholders to design and build intuitive data visualizations and dashboards that drive actionable insights and program visibility.\n\nCore Technologies (current and planned)\nCloud: AWS\nLakehouse / data platform: Databricks\nTransformations: dbt\nLanguages: SQL and Python (primary languages for ingestion and transformation)\nIngestion patterns: API-based ingestion, Change Data Capture (CDC), and event- or webhook-driven pipelines, including frameworks such as PySpark and Spark Structured Streaming on Databricks\nOrchestration: workflow orchestration (e.g., Databricks Workflows or Airflow)\n\nQualifications\n5+ years of experience in data or backend engineering roles with significant data platform responsibility\nHands-on experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines and ingestion frameworks\nStrong proficiency in SQL and Python for data ingestion, processing, and transformation\nExperience with a cloud data platform; experience with AWS and Databricks (or a comparable Spark-based lakehouse) strongly preferred\nExperience building SQL-based transformation workflows; hands-on experience with dbt preferred\nStrong computer science fundamentals, including comfort reasoning about distributed systems and data processing at scale\nAbility to diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and data quality issues in complex systems\nStrong ownership mindset and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-growing environments\nClear communicator able to partner effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders\nExperience building dashboards or analytical outputs used by executives and frontline teams\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience working with healthcare, care delivery, or other regulated data environments\nFamiliarity with HIPAA requirements and handling of sensitive health or customer data\nExperience building streaming data pipelines or event-driven architectures\nExperience implementing data observability, lineage, or quality monitoring tools\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted development tools and automation in engineering workflows\nEarly-stage startup experience strongly preferred\n\nWhat you can expect from Zócalo Health\nEquity compensation package\nComprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision\n401k\nFlexible PTO policy - take the time you need to recharge\n$1,000 home office stipend\nWe provide the equipment needed for this role.\nOpportunity for rapid career progression with plenty of room for personal growth.\nYou must be authorized to work in the United States. Remote Work can be done from anywhere in the U.S.\n\nAt Zócalo Health Inc., we see diversity and inclusion as a source of strength in transforming healthcare. We believe building trust and innovation are best achieved through diverse perspectives. To us, acceptance and respect are rooted in an understanding that people do not experience things in the same way, including our healthcare system. 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We partner with health plans, providers, and community organizations to deliver culturally competent primary care, behavioral health, and social care.\nOur model is built for populations with high medical and social complexity, where fragmented care drives poor outcomes and unnecessary cost. We combine local, community-based teams with virtual care and modern technology to deliver coordinated, whole-person care where members live and receive support.\nFounded in 2021, Zócalo Health is backed by leading healthcare and mission-aligned investors and is scaling rapidly across states and populations. We are building a durable care platform designed to perform in constrained healthcare environments and to lead the shift toward accountable, value-based care.\n\nRole Description\nThe Senior Data Engineer will join Zócalo Health as we build the data platform that powers analytics, product measurement, and operational visibility across the company. This is a hands-on building role at a foundational stage: you will design and ship the pipelines, ingestion frameworks, and data models that the rest of the company depends on.\nThe primary focus of this role is establishing a scalable, durable data platform. This includes laying the groundwork for longer-term initiatives such as the longitudinal patient record, population-level analytics, and product instrumentation. You will partner closely with Engineering and Product to ensure the data platform supports roadmap priorities and outcome measurement as the company grows.\nThis position reports to the Principal Data Engineer and partners closely with Engineering and Product.\n\nIn your first 12 months, you will:\nBuild and operate production-grade ingestion pipelines from core clinical, operational, and third-party systems into our Databricks lakehouse\nDevelop and maintain dbt models that turn raw data into clean, well-documented, analytics-ready datasets\nEstablish data quality, testing, and monitoring practices that make pipelines reliable and trustworthy\nHelp shape ingestion patterns and architecture standards alongside the Principal Data Engineer\nEnable company-wide metrics for care outcomes and operations\nCollaborate with cross-functional leads to develop and iterate on a suite of core operational dashboards, ensuring teams have the self-service tools they need to track company metrics and outcomes.\n\nThe Senior Data Engineer will contribute in the following ways:\nDesign, build, and operate production data pipelines across clinical, operational, and third-party systems using API-based ingestion, Change Data Capture (CDC), and event- or webhook-driven patterns\nBuild and maintain transformation layers in dbt, including tests, documentation, and reusable models\nDevelop and refine core analytical and longitudinal data models used across the company\nImplement testing, monitoring, and observability to ensure data quality, pipeline reliability, and system performance\nApply strong engineering fundamentals to improve the scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency of data systems on AWS and Databricks\nPartner with Product to support metric definitions, outcome measurement, and reporting needs\nContribute to engineering standards, code review, and a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement\nPartner with business, product, and engineering stakeholders to design and build intuitive data visualizations and dashboards that drive actionable insights and program visibility.\n\nCore Technologies (current and planned)\nCloud: AWS\nLakehouse / data platform: Databricks\nTransformations: dbt\nLanguages: SQL and Python (primary languages for ingestion and transformation)\nIngestion patterns: API-based ingestion, Change Data Capture (CDC), and event- or webhook-driven pipelines, including frameworks such as PySpark and Spark Structured Streaming on Databricks\nOrchestration: workflow orchestration (e.g., Databricks Workflows or Airflow)\n\nQualifications\n5+ years of experience in data or backend engineering roles with significant data platform responsibility\nHands-on experience building and operating production-grade data pipelines and ingestion frameworks\nStrong proficiency in SQL and Python for data ingestion, processing, and transformation\nExperience with a cloud data platform; experience with AWS and Databricks (or a comparable Spark-based lakehouse) strongly preferred\nExperience building SQL-based transformation workflows; hands-on experience with dbt preferred\nStrong computer science fundamentals, including comfort reasoning about distributed systems and data processing at scale\nAbility to diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and data quality issues in complex systems\nStrong ownership mindset and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-growing environments\nClear communicator able to partner effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders\nExperience building dashboards or analytical outputs used by executives and frontline teams\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience working with healthcare, care delivery, or other regulated data environments\nFamiliarity with HIPAA requirements and handling of sensitive health or customer data\nExperience building streaming data pipelines or event-driven architectures\nExperience implementing data observability, lineage, or quality monitoring tools\nFamiliarity with AI-assisted development tools and automation in engineering workflows\nEarly-stage startup experience strongly preferred\n\nWhat you can expect from Zócalo Health\nEquity compensation package\nComprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision\n401k\nFlexible PTO policy - take the time you need to recharge\n$1,000 home office stipend\nWe provide the equipment needed for this role.\nOpportunity for rapid career progression with plenty of room for personal growth.\nYou must be authorized to work in the United States. Remote Work can be done from anywhere in the U.S.\n\nAt Zócalo Health Inc., we see diversity and inclusion as a source of strength in transforming healthcare. We believe building trust and innovation are best achieved through diverse perspectives. To us, acceptance and respect are rooted in an understanding that people do not experience things in the same way, including our healthcare system. 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