Lead Data Engineer
Yesterday• Flexible / Remote
Arcadia is dedicated to happier, healthier days for all. We believe that there is a better healthcare world – one powered by data. Our platform transforms complex, diverse data into a unified foundation for health, helping organizations deliver better care, boost revenue, and lower costs.
We’re a team of fiercely driven individuals committed to making healthcare more sustainable—and we’re looking for passionate people to help us get there.
For more information, visit arcadia.io.
Why This Role Is Important to Arcadia
The Arcadia Data Engineering team onboards and supports the data feed integrations between Client Claim and Clinical data management platforms and our Healthcare Solution Platform. Our customers are top Healthcare providers and payers, and we help them integrate their internal systems with our analytic platform. The Data Engineering team is responsible for the data architecture that drives the partnership with customers and other internal organizations to drive success through adoption of cutting edge analytic solutions that leverage new age technologies and best practices. Our Data Engineers require both SQL Database knowledge and design , along with multiple programing languages.
As a Lead Data Engineer, you will drive the successful development of solution architecture and the completion of data pipeline connectors that automate the flow of data between client Claim and Clinical data platforms and our analytic health solution platform. Your efforts will be critical to driving the long-term partnership between Arcadia and our customers.
What Success Looks Like
In 3 months
- Learn the different areas of the data connector life cycle, and develop a working knowledge of the technical stacks, storage platforms, data models, and Arcadia's development cycle
- Familiarize yourself with the existing data pipeline and associated product capabilities
- Set to work on new ingestion pipelines with full bandwidth available (as formal training will end)
In 6 months
- Meaningfully contribute to team efficiency by building or rolling out new functionality to enhance team speed
- Build a backlog of development projects that you can start executing on in the next 6 months
- Build strong relationships with engineering organization that supports the data engineering stack so that you can help drive stack improvements
- Set your own personal vision of development and career aspirations and set a working path forward with leadership to work on how we can help you attain those goals
- Contribute to scrum ceremonies and ceremonies within the dev cycles while successfully updating status and progress in Jira
In 12 months
- Demonstrate impact to larger team’s ability to get the work done faster
- Continue to work with Product, Engineering or Implementation to build out tools for better data integration capabilities
- Work on standardizing data connector development with better abstraction patterns
- Become a SME (subject matter expert) on Arcadia’s data stack
What You'll Be Doing
- As a Lead Data Engineer, you will drive the successful development of solution architecture and the completion of data pipeline connectors that automate the flow of data between client data platforms and our analytic health solution platform. Your outcomes are critical to driving the long-term partnership between Arcadia and our customers.
- Improving the process of how we design and document data pipelines
- Identifying high leverage improvement projects and driving them to completion
- Support of our processes in partaking in peer code reviews, sprint planning, product grooming, maintaining Jira tasks and peer test reviews
- You will be expected to contribute to multiple implementations simultaneously, which will include both new customer setup as well as support and enhancements for existing customers
You will primarily do the following:
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The expectations of the day to day of an engineer are as follows:
Delivery
Technical Domain Knowledge:
Business Domain Knowledge:
Communication Skills:
Team Projects:
What You'll Bring
- Senior Experience Level of 5-8 years post-grad with relevant industry experience or graduate level degree.
- As a Lead Data Engineer you will be expected to problem solve coding issues and enhancements with frameworks that are built in Spark, while also leveraging technical skills to partake in idea sessions on process improvement and POC design of how to carry out a solution
- SQL: 5+ years (Preferred)
- Python: 3+ years (Preferred)
- Spark: 4+ years (Preferred)
- Database Architecture: 2-3 years (Preferred)
- Cloud Architecture: 1-2 years (Preferred)
- As a Lead Data Engineer you will be expected to problem solve some basic data analysis issues and work the data to create analytic enhancements
- Healthcare Data: 2-4 years (Preferred)
- Healthcare Analytics: 1-3 years (Preferred)
TECH
DATA
Would Love For You To Have
- AWS (S3 and EC2): 2-3 years
- Nifi: 3- 5 years
- Kafka: 3-5 years
- Java : 3-5 years
- Healthcare Analytics: 3-5 years
What You'll Get
- Chance to be surrounded by a team of extremely talented and dedicated individuals driven to succeed
- Be a part of a mission driven company that is transforming the healthcare industry by changing the way patients receive care
- A flexible, remote friendly company with personality and heart
- Employee driven programs and initiatives for personal and professional development
- Be a member of the Arcadian and Barkadian Community
About Arcadia
Arcadia.io helps innovative providers and payers across the country transform healthcare to reduce cost while improving patient health. We do this by aggregating large amounts of disparate data, applying algorithms to identify opportunities to provide better patient care, and making those opportunities actionable by physicians at the point of care in near-real time. We are passionate about helping our customers drive meaningful outcomes. We are growing fast and have emerged as a market leader in the highly competitive population health management software market and have been recognized by industry analysts KLAS, IDC, Forrester, and Chilmark for our leadership. For a better sense of our brand and products, please explore our website.
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Client-provided location(s): Flexible / Remote
Job ID: 811000d1-b400-491b-a712-f2484ba03e66
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2026-02-13T21:07:45
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Pet Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- FSA
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- Fitness Subsidies
- Mental Health Benefits
Parental Benefits
- Family Support Resources
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Adoption Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
Work Flexibility
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Pet-friendly Office
- Snacks
- Company Outings
- Commuter Benefits Program
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- 401(K)
- Performance Bonus
Professional Development
- Work Visa Sponsorship
- Promote From Within
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
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