Senior Data Engineer

The Business Intelligence & Analytics team within Datavant Product is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help build and scale our reporting, analytics, and data platform capabilities.

Our team is focused on creating a trusted and scalable analytics platform that delivers clear, actionable insights across Datavant. In this role, you'll help improve our data ecosystem, modernise reporting capabilities, and enable better decision-making through reliable, high-quality data.

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges, building scalable solutions, and partnering with both technical and non-technical teams to deliver meaningful outcomes.

You Will:

• Design and evolve scalable data platform infrastructure, orchestration frameworks, and data models that support reporting, analytics, and operational systems.

• Partner across Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Operations to translate business needs into scalable data solutions and platform capabilities.

• Build and maintain reliable, observable, and reusable data workflows using Python, SQL, dbt, Airflow, Terraform, and cloud-native technologies.

• Lead technical discussions and architecture decisions, balancing scalability, reliability, maintainability, cost, and delivery speed.

• Mentor engineers and help establish best practices for data engineering, observability, Infrastructure-as-Code, and operational excellence.

• Drive improvements in testing, monitoring, reliability, security, and cost optimisation across the platform.

• Review code, infrastructure, and architecture to support high standards of quality, maintainability, and performance.

What You Will Bring to the Table:

• 7+ years of experience in software development or data engineering, including experience contributing to complex technical initiatives and collaborating across teams.

• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development workflows, code quality, operational efficiency, and scalability.

• Strong experience with modern data modelling, transformation practices, and scalable architecture patterns across analytical and operational domains.

• Experience designing and operating data pipelines and orchestration frameworks using technologies such as dbt, Apache Airflow, Python, and cloud-native platforms.

• Experience building and operating cloud-based data platforms in AWS, Azure, or GCP, including Infrastructure-as-Code practices using Terraform or similar tools.

• Experience supporting platform reliability through observability, monitoring, operational excellence, performance optimisation, and cost management.

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and modern software engineering practices for reliable data platforms.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across engineering, analytics, product, and operations teams.

• Ability to balance competing priorities, navigate ambiguity, and deliver impactful solutions.

Bonus points for:

• Prior experience in healthcare or another highly regulated industry such as finance, insurance, or life sciences.
• Experience administering and optimizing Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse platforms, including security and access management, performance tuning, workload management, cost optimization, governance, and operational reliability at scale.
• Hands-on experience with modern data stack technologies such as dbt, Fivetran Airflow, Kafka, Spark, Databricks, or streaming/event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, lineage, and compliance frameworks such as HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2, or GDPR.
• Background as a Database Administrator, Data Analyst, Analytics Engineer, or similar data-focused role.
• Experience building self-service data platforms, reusable developer tooling, or internal platform capabilities that improve engineering productivity.
• Experience supporting multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud infrastructure and networking patterns across AWS and/or Azure.

Join Our Team at Datavant Ireland – A Galway-Based R&D Technology Center

Datavant Ireland is an innovative R&D technology center based in Galway, dedicated to solving complex technology challenges with a purpose. We are looking for talented technical professionals who are product-minded and eager to make an impact. If you are passionate about developing cutting-edge solutions and want to be part of a growing team, we invite you to explore the exciting career opportunities at Datavant.

Careers at Datavant offer the opportunity to apply your technology and problem-solving skills toward a vision that every healthcare decision is powered by the right data, at the right time, in the right format. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers - people who are ready to move the needle and build on our success.

We provide team members with a robust total compensation package that includes:

• Competitive, equitable salary.  
• Comprehensive benefits.
• Pension contribution.
• Flexible, Hybrid work environment.