Data Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Datavant's Data Infrastructure engineering team as a highly collaborative, remote-friendly team member passionate about transforming healthcare. You will collaborate with engineers, plan complex projects, mentor junior developers, and facilitate technical discussions. The role involves building and maintaining data infrastructure across multiple clouds, writing high-quality code, and engaging with stakeholders. This position requires extensive software development and data infrastructure experience, strong communication skills, and a product mindset. Datavant offers a competitive salary and a high-growth, high-autonomy culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software development
• 2+ years of experience building and maintaining a data lake and/or data warehouse
• Leadership skills, ranging from mentoring your own team to gaining buy-in from technical stakeholders throughout Engineering
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, with 2+ years of experience using a cloud provider
• Experience writing Infrastructure-as-Code
• Deep knowledge of operational database products
• A “get things done” attitude and a product mindset – you’re excited to identify places the team can deliver value, then take ownership of delivering
• Strong communication skills with business and technical stakeholders alike – you’re skilled at balancing partnership and focus for yourself and the team

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your department and software engineers across the organization to deliver a world-class data platform from the ground up
• Plan and delegate complex projects with broad scope
• Mentor and grow early career developers or engineers transitioning into Data Infrastructure from other domains
• Facilitate technical discussions, guiding the team toward the most effective approaches to problem solving
• Engage with stakeholders across the business to ensure their needs are being met
• Build, upgrade, and maintain Data-related infrastructure & monitoring across multiple clouds and other systems & services
• Write performant, readable, and reusable code and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Review code for your team to ensure a high standard of technical quality across our codebases

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing IaC in Terraform and code in Python
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts in AWS and/or Azure
• Strong knowledge of AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), Apache Airflow, Data Build Tool (dbt), and/or Snowflake
• Prior experience in Healthcare or another highly regulated industry like Finance
• Background as a Database Administrator, Data Analyst, or similar role
• AWS or Azure certification(s)

Benefits

• Remote work, flexible hours
• The estimated salary range for this role is $130,000- $185,000