Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Accompany Health is on a mission to give patients with complex needs the dignified, high-quality care they deserve. As a Principal Data Engineer, you will collaborate across the organization to build products that integrate healthcare services and drive change in the industry.
Responsibilities
- Be a data champion and seek to empower others to leverage the data to its full potential
- Understand our complex data ecosystem
- Work with the product team and stakeholders to translate business requirements for data across the company into a technical roadmap and architecture for the platform
- Act as the leading data domain expert and owns platform data architecture
- Lead the technical design and implementation of reliable, scalable, and efficient data infrastructure, data-driven products, and software solutions for external and internal customers
- Provide technical leadership to define overall data engineering best practices, standards, and architectural approaches and drive technical excellence. Identify design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc
- Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture with high observability and robust operational characteristics
- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL
- Work with stakeholders, including the Executive, Product, Clinical, Data, and Design teams, to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
- Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader
Skills
- You are entrepreneurial and mission-driven and can present your ideas with clarity and confidence clarity and confidence
- Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases
- Experience building and optimizing ‘big data' data pipelines, architectures, and data sets. A definite plus with healthcare experience
- Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
- Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
- Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management
- A successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large disconnected datasets
- Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data' data stores
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
- We are looking for a candidate with 7+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field
- Experience with cloud-based data warehouse: Snowflake
- Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Golang, Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc
- Experience with big data tools: Spark, Kafka, etc
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools like Airflow
Benefits
Company Overview
Accompany Health provides comprehensive in-home care to patients who live in sometimes underserved regions. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://accompanyhealth.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Accompany Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 6 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 4 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.