Back to all positions

[Remote] Lead Data Engineer

Remote Full-time Now Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BLEND360 is an acclaimed, forward-thinking Data, Digital Marketing, & AI Solutions Company, dedicated to fueling remarkable outcomes for our Fortune 500 clients. 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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

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
  • Experience with AI driven workflows, and orchestration design patterns
  • 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
  • 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

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits program to meet the health and financial well-being of our team and their families
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401K
  • PTO
  • Paid holidays
  • Commuter benefits
  • Spending accounts
  • Life insurance
  • Disability coverage
  • EAPs

Company Overview

  • Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://blend360.com/.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Blend has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 5 in 2026, 33 in 2025, 30 in 2024, 28 in 2023, 32 in 2022, 21 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.