Senior Data Engineer

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for complex design, development, deployment, operational support, technical communication, mentoring, and continuous improvement across Mom’s Meals data and integration platforms. This role works independently on complex assignments and provides guidance to junior and mid-level engineers.

The Senior Data Engineer may operate broadly across Databricks, dbt Cloud, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Lakeflow, Azure DevOps, and related Azure services, or may serve as a senior specialist within a specific platform area. This role bridges hands-on engineering delivery with solution design, platform reliability, compliance-aware implementation, stakeholder communication, and team leadership.

The successful candidate must be able to communicate with technical teams, business stakeholders, external partners, infrastructure, information security, network teams, and leadership.

Remote hires will be required to travel to our headquarters in Ankeny, IA (company paid) their first few days for new hire orientation, training, and onboarding.

At this time, we are NOT considering applicants that require immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but IS NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc.

Salary range: $120,000-130,000 plus 10% annual bonus target

Benefits

Our employees enjoy a generous package of benefits that we are thrilled to provide, and feel is part of what makes us different as an employer. We value our team members, and this is one way we can show it.

Benefits include:

-PTO, holiday pay and holiday of choice

-401(k) match

-Life insurance

-Short-term disability

-Health, dental and vision insurance

-Maternity/paternity leave

-Health savings account (HSA)

-Flex spending accounts (FSA) – health and dependent

Position Responsibilities may include, but not limited to

Platform and Operational Leadership

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

Solution Design and Senior Engineering Delivery

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

Azure DevOps, CI/CD, and Delivery Coordination

Help improve CI/CD 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 ADO work items include accurate progress, decisions, blockers, risks, and testing evidence

Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, work estimation, and stakeholder reporting

Cross-Platform Data and Integration Enablement

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, ADF, 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

Communication, Mentoring, and Collaboration

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

Security and Compliance

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

Required Skills and Experience

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, ADF, Lakeflow, Azure DevOps, SQL, Python, Spark, APIs, sFTP, or EDI-related data exchanges

Experience designing production-ready solutions and supporting operational environments

Experience with CI/CD, 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, PHI handling, privacy, and healthcare compliance expectations

Performance Expectations

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

Physical Requirements

Repetitive motions that include the wrists, hands and/or fingers

Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting, remaining in a stationary position for prolonged periods

Visual perception to perform job including peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus

Company Overview
Mom’s Meals is a home-delivered meal service providing fully prepared, refrigerated meal solutions direct to homes nationwide since 1999. We provide seniors, patients recovering post-discharge and those managing a chronic condition with tailored nutrition solutions to manage their specific needs. If you are passionate about the well-being of others and have a strong sense of community, Mom’s Meals could be the place for you! We are a family operated business looking for fun, compassionate, and friendly people who want to make a difference in the lives of others.
EEO
Mom’s Meals complies with all applicable federal and state non-discrimination laws. All qualified applicants shall receive consideration for employment without regards to race, religion, national origin, ancestry, color, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or military status.
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