Data Engineer

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The Data Engineer plays a critical role in architecting, developing, and optimizing enterprise-grade 
data pipelines that power decision-making across GoHealth. Leveraging Snowflake and modern 
orchestration frameworks, this role ensures high-quality, scalable, and secure data delivery. The 
Data Engineer partners closely with data scientists, BI developers, and operational leaders to design 
forward-looking data solutions, integrate complex source systems, and drive reliability and trust 
across the organization.
 

Qualifications
Education Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related field.

Work Experience Required:

• 3+ years of experience in Data Engineering and Data Warehousing.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Snowflake or equivalent cloud data platforms.
   

Preferred Qualifications, Education, Licenses, Certifications, Experience, etc.:

• Proficiency with advanced Snowflake features (SnowPipe, Streams, Tasks, and Security).
• Hands-on experience with modern orchestration and transformation frameworks (e.g., Apache Airflow, dbt).
• Expertise in data modeling, integration design patterns, and database performance optimization.
• Proficiency in Python or Java for automation, data transformations, and API integrations.
• Familiarity with Azure and other cloud services.
• Experience integrating data engineering workflows with visualization platforms (Tableau, Power BI).

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Deep proficiency in SQL for building optimized, reusable, and cost-effective queries.
• Ability to design, monitor, and maintain large-scale ETL pipelines and frameworks.
• Experience with structured and semi-structured data (e.g., JSON, XML, Parquet).
• Skilled with version control (Git) and CI/CD best practices for data engineering
• Strong problem-solving mindset with a focus on scalability, governance, and data quality.
• Ability to cope technical solutions independently, mentor junior team members, and communicate business value to stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of Snowflake pipelines, balancing scalability, governance, and performance.
• Engineer and deliver reliable datasets that meet business requirements while ensuring compliance with governance and security standards.
• Own complex data integrations across multiple systems, reconciling inconsistencies and ensuring enterprise alignment.
• Drive performance tuning initiatives, proactively optimizing for cost efficiency and speed.
• Design and implement monitoring, recovery, and alerting mechanisms for ETL workflows.
• Investigate root causes of data issues, implement preventative measures, and ensure continuous improvement.
• Partner with BI, Operations, and Finance teams to translate business challenges into scalable technical solutions.
• Evaluate emerging tools and practices, adopting innovations that align with organizational priorities.
• Guide Associate Data Engineers through end-to-end evaluations of data tools and technologies, ensuring thorough analysis and alignment with project goals. 
• Provide ongoing technical support to junior developers by addressing questions, troubleshooting issues, and sharing best practices to foster skill development and team efficiency

GoHealth Core Values
GoHealth’s Core Values, listed below, are essential functions of this position:

• Collaboration: Takes ownership for collectively establishing productive partnerships and relationships and seek to gain joint understanding of priorities and objectives so that the greater good of the organization and those we serve is always at the forefront.
• Innovation: Consistently uses good judgment, applying creativity to overcome obstacles and increasing effectiveness and efficiency through process and other forms of innovation.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Fosters diversity and inclusion, to be able to better understand team members, our customers and partners. Engages the strengths and talents of each GoHealth team member, creating an environment of involvement, respect and connection where the richness of ideas, backgrounds and perspectives are harnessed.
• Courage & Integrity: Models and practices the highest ethical and professional standards; demonstrates pride and personal interest in our patients, partners and fellow team members, deeply engaging in the business. Makes decisions, with a focus on doing the right thing; treats team members, our customers, partners and vendors with dignity, consideration, open-mindedness and respect.
• Accountability: Always shows initiative, demonstrates a bias to action and gets things done. Actively accepts responsibility for diverse roles, obligations and actions that positively influence patient and customer outcomes, our partnerships and the healthcare needs of our communities.

Physical Requirements

• Office Environment: Primarily remote; standard office or home-office setting.
• Travel: Minimal travel may be required (up to 10%).
• Safety Equipment: Compliance with workplace safety and infection-prevention standards 

Note: This Job Description is not inclusive of all the duties of the position. You may be asked by Leaders to perform other duties. Leadership may revise this job description at any time

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