Senior Data Engineer
$120k - $130k+ 10% annual bonus target
Senior
Ankeny, IA, USA
RemoteRemote hires must travel to headquarters in Ankeny, Iowa, for the first few days of orientation, training, and onboarding; travel is company-paid.
Data & AnalyticsData Engineering
No H1B Sponsorship
About the job
Requirements
- Significant experience building and supporting data pipelines, integrations, analytics platforms, reporting data assets, or cloud data solutions.
- Strong experience with several relevant technologies such as Databricks, dbt, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Lakeflow, Azure DevOps, SQL, Python, Spark, APIs, sFTP, or EDI-related data exchanges.
- Experience designing production-ready solutions and supporting operational environments.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery, source control, testing, deployment, and release practices.
- Ability to guide other engineers and lead technical work.
- Strong communication, documentation, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills.
- Understanding of HIPAA, HITRUST, protected health information handling, privacy, and healthcare compliance expectations.
- Ability to communicate with technical teams, business stakeholders, external partners, infrastructure, information security, network teams, and leadership.
- Ability to perform repetitive motions involving the wrists, hands, and/or fingers; perform sedentary work primarily involving sitting and remaining stationary for prolonged periods; and perform visual tasks requiring peripheral vision, depth perception, and adjustment of focus.
Responsibilities
- Lead operational support for assigned pipelines, integrations, APIs, reports, jobs, models, datasets, and platform services.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, notifications, reconciliation, runbooks, and support procedures.
- Drive root-cause analysis and permanent remediation for recurring production issues.
- Advocate for automation-driven administration, monitoring, and notification services.
- Support production readiness, release planning, deployment coordination, and operational handoff.
- Design and deliver complex platform solutions across data engineering, integration, analytics, reporting, and platform operations.
- Lead technical design for data pipelines, API integrations, file-based exchanges, sFTP flows, EDI-related interactions, dbt models, semantic structures, Databricks workflows, Power BI data assets, and analytics delivery processes.
- Apply architecture standards, platform patterns, naming conventions, testing expectations, documentation practices, and operational requirements.
- Identify technical risks, performance concerns, supportability gaps, and design tradeoffs.
- Review designs, code, models, integration flows, test plans, and deployment plans created by other engineers.
- Help improve continuous integration and continuous delivery practices across platforms.
- Coordinate technical delivery, testing, deployment readiness, release notes, and production validation.
- Lead assigned Azure DevOps features, user stories, tasks, bugs, requirements, and documentation.
- Ensure Azure DevOps work items include accurate progress, decisions, blockers, risks, and testing evidence.
- Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, work estimation, and stakeholder reporting.
- Ensure upstream integrations and downstream data products are aligned, reliable, traceable, and supportable.
- Support medallion architecture design and implementation across source-to-bronze, bronze-to-silver, and silver-to-gold patterns.
- Lead assigned work across Databricks, dbt, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Lakeflow, Azure DevOps, or related services.
- Support healthcare-focused data domains and partner reporting needs.
- Guide semantic consistency across dbt, Databricks, Power BI, and analytics engine outputs.
- Communicate complex technical topics clearly to business and technology audiences.
- Prepare design summaries, technical documentation, decision records, diagrams, implementation plans, and operational updates.
- Mentor Junior Data Engineers and Data Engineers.
- Coordinate work with onshore and offshore resources as assigned.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, information security, network, application, integration, reporting, and business teams.
- Ensure assigned solutions align with HIPAA, HITRUST, privacy, security, and internal compliance expectations.
- Support secure data movement, access control, encryption, logging controls, auditability, and sensitive data handling.
- Participate in security reviews, control documentation, audit support, and remediation activities as needed.
- Promote compliance-aware engineering practices within the team.
- Deliver complex, secure, scalable, and supportable platform solutions.
- Lead design, deployment, and operational improvement activities.
- Improve platform reliability through automation, monitoring, and documentation.
- Provide clear communication to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Mentor other engineers and improve team execution.
- Maintain strong Azure DevOps documentation and delivery tracking.
- Demonstrate strong judgment, ownership, and collaboration.
About the company
Mom’s Meals provides home-delivered, dietitian-planned meals for patients and seniors who want to stay independent while managing chronic conditions. Its meals are designed by Registered Dietitians, prepared by chefs in USDA‑inspected kitchens, and delivered to homes or congregate sites across 48 states. The company works with health plans, Medicaid/Medicare programs, and other care entities to offer nutrition solutions tailored to conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and kidney disease, with gluten-free and vegetarian options. What sets Mom’s Meals apart is its focus on healthcare partnerships and program eligibility to support hospital recovery, improve patient outcomes, and reduce readmissions through disease-specific menus and scalable meal delivery. The ultimate goal is to help clients maintain independence and health through proper nutrition.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Ankeny, Iowa
Founded
1999
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Mom's Meals reported 59,863 donated meals in 2025, signaling operational scale and goodwill.
- The Western Massachusetts pilot targets up to 500 Medicare Advantage members, creating near-term reference customers.
- Health plans need lower readmissions, and Mom's Meals publishes outcome data supporting that thesis.
What critics are saying
- PurFoods settled a data-breach class action for $4.25 million in December 2025.
- The 2023 breach exposed data for 1.2 million people, damaging trust with payers.
- Medically tailored meals face reimbursement dependence; one CMS policy shift can crush demand.
What makes Mom's Meals unique
- Mom's Meals runs medically tailored meals across 70 facilities nationwide, serving 48 states.
- Its 2026 Agilix Health collaboration integrates meals into Medicare Advantage care models.
- PurFoods positions Mom's Meals as food-as-medicine infrastructure, backed by white papers and case studies.
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Benefits
- Hybrid Work Options