Data Engineer II

Gifthealth is revolutionizing the way people experience healthcare by simplifying the process of managing prescriptions and health services. They are seeking a Data Engineer II to build and maintain pipelines and models for analytics and client reporting, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and compliance standards.

Responsibilities:

• Build, test, and maintain production data pipelines and dbt models with limited day-to-day direction
• Own delivery of scoped projects end to end, including requirements clarification, implementation, testing, documentation, and handoff
• Write and maintain orchestration jobs; monitor pipeline health, triage failures, and resolve or escalate production issues
• Participate actively in code review, both giving and receiving feedback, and apply the team's technical standards consistently
• Partner with analysts, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate reporting and data needs into durable models
• Contribute to team standards, documentation, and tooling improvements
• Ensure compliance and confidentiality of Personal Health Information across all data

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or other quantitative field, and relevant work experience as a Data Engineer
• 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a closely related data role
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, including performance-aware query writing
• Hands-on experience with Airflow or a comparable orchestrator, including building and debugging scheduled jobs
• Working experience with dbt and a modern cloud data warehouse
• Familiarity with Git-based workflows, CI/CD, and automated testing
• Exposure to AWS and managed ingestion tools such as Fivetran
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain data work to non-technical partners and document your own decisions
• Comfort working through ambiguity, asking clarifying questions, and driving work to completion
• An excitement about what data can do for healthcare and patients
• Ruby experience is a plus