Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Texicare is a mission-driven health affiliate of Texas Mutual, headquartered in Austin, Texas, focused on providing innovative healthcare solutions. As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will build and evolve the data platform, design scalable data pipelines, and ensure data reliability and security in a highly regulated healthcare environment.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve core data platform components to be robust, scalable, and maintainable
- Design and deliver secure, high-performing end-to-end data workflows in partnership with technical and business teams
- Build and operate data pipelines and orchestration workflows, ensuring reliable scheduling, lineage, quality, and recoverability
- Own platform infrastructure with a focus on uptime, repeatability, and operational excellence
- Lead Snowflake operations including configuration, performance tuning, cost optimization, and scalable data modeling patterns
- Integrate diverse sources to enable a unified, governed data strategy across the organization
- Drive reliability and security through monitoring/alerting, incident troubleshooting, IAM controls, encryption, and healthcare compliance alignment (e.g., HIPAA), while mentoring others on best practices and documentation
- Develop and host training/demos for business and technical users on how to interact with relevant parts of the data platform
Skills
- A bachelor's degree or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- At least 4 years of experience in SQL and at least 2 years in Python or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Experience with Git and building CI/CD pipelines (ex. GitHub Actions)
- Healthcare experience
- Experience with Snowflake and/or Dagster
Benefits
- Automatic 4% employer contribution to retirement plan
- 401k plan with 100% match up to 6%
- Flexible time off for vacation, illness, etc.
- Nine paid holidays
- Day one health, Rx, vision, and dental insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Pet coverage and pet Rx discounts
- Free identity theft protection
- Free 2nd medical opinion service
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