Senior Data/Platform Engineer (AWS)

Company: Gravie
Location: Minneapolis
Posted on: March 24, 2025

Job Description:

Hi, we're Gravie. Our mission is to improve the way people purchase and access healthcare through innovative, consumer-centric health benefit solutions that people can actually use. Our industry-changing products and services are developed and delivered by a diverse group of unique people. We encourage you to be your authentic self - we like you that way.A Little More About The role:If you're dreaming about how you can use an awesome tech stack to disrupt an industry... Gravie could be the place for you. AWS native since we started, we use functional programming with autonomous, cross-functional teams to build fast and deliver impact. Gravie is at that sweet spot, checking the boxes for both excellent technology and making a huge splash in the insurance industry.What does it take to thrive as a Senior Data Engineer at Gravie? You need both deep technical data engineering skills, broad cross-functional skills to innovate and own creative data solution development. You should be curious, and eager to move quickly to deliver results for our customers. As part of Gravie's engineering organization, our data team uses engineering delivery standards and practices to build and operate our core data infrastructure to support the reporting, analytics, and data science needs of our business users.You are likely to be self-driven, enjoy working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, and want to use a modern data engineering stack to solve challenging problems-with a long-term vision to create a data driven organization. We would love to find someone in the Minneapolis metro area interested in working on a hybrid basis with our team in NE Mpls. However, we will consider someone on a remote basis if they live in the Central or Eastern time zone state.You will:

• Create data pipelines and operate data infrastructure to ingest data from various sources into Gravie's data estate.
• Lead the creation of data models, architecture, and be hands-on with development and release of efficient & reliable pipelines that balance performance, cost, fit to business requirements, and security.
• Operate and enhance Gravie's AWS CDK-provisioned data infrastructure, to enable data ingestion from a variety of sources using SQL, Python, and core AWS data technologies (Redshift, Glue, EMR, Lambda).
• Act as a data architect to understand various source applications, data standards, and how to integrate them with other source applications.
• Identify opportunities for internal process improvement such as automating manual processes or optimizing data delivery and infrastructure for greater scalability. Design a POC and implement a solution.
• Be passionate about data, data quality, access, and governance to create accurate high-performance performance data assets that are easy to consume.
• Mentor junior team members, regularly lead code reviews and solution design workshops.
• Excel at collaborating with data vendors and design creative solutions to potentially rigid constraints on source data.
• Demonstrate commitment to our core competencies of being authentic, curious, creative, empathetic and outcome oriented.You bring:
• 4+ years of experience building, optimizing, testing, and orchestrating data integrations, pipelines, and cloud architectures using modern technologies such as AWS Redshift, dbt, Glue, Airflow.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building or enhancing data warehouses with a Kimbell methodology.
• 6+ years of overall experience in a Data Engineer role, with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or another quantitative field.
• Experience with data transformation, governance, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workflow management.
• Interest in emerging tech within the field of data tooling and practices, and willingness to make recommendations on opportunities to advance our capabilities.
• Comfortable using the command line, a Unix-based OS (we are 100% Mac+Linux at Gravie) and extensive experience with software engineering best practices, like version control using Git and IaaC (AWS CDK, Terraform).
• History of managing complex dependencies, processes, multi-layered projects, and estimations of scope and timeline.
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated success at driving results through influence and collaboration.Extra credit:
• Knowledge of Health Insurance Industry, ideally working with HIPAA Protected Health Information (PHI) and EDI-transmitted data.
• Familiarity with data-adjacent AWS Infrastructure and services like EC2, IAM, ECS, Sagemaker.
• Experience using and administering data visualization or BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI).
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and data lake architectures.
• Previous venture-backed start-up company experience.Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now and in the future and must be able to work a hybrid schedule out of our Minneapolis, MN, office.Gravie:In order to transform health insurance and build a health plan everyone can love, we need talented people doing amazing work. In exchange, we offer a great overall employee experience with opportunities for career growth, meaningful mission-driven work, and an above average total rewards package.The salary range for this position is $123,300 - $205,500 annually. Numerous factors including, but not limited to, education, skills, work experience, certifications, etc. will be considered when determining compensation. Stock options may also be awarded as part of the compensation package.Our unique benefits program is the gravy, i.e., the special sauce that sets our compensation package apart. In addition to standard health and wellness benefits, Gravie's package includes alternative medicine coverage, flexible PTO, up to 16 weeks paid parental leave, paid holidays, a 401k program, cell phone reimbursement, transportation perks, education reimbursement, and 1 week of paid paw-ternity leave.A Little More About Us:
• We know healthcare. Our company was founded and is still led by industry veterans who have started and grown several market-leading companies in the space.
• We have raised money from top tier investors who share the same long-term vision as we do of building an industry defining company that will endure over the long run. We are well capitalized.
• Our customers like us. Our revenue churn is in the low single digits, in an industry where greater than 20% churn is common.
• Our culture is unique. We tend to be non-hierarchical, merit-driven, opinionated but kind people who thrive working in a high-performance, fast-paced environment. People at Gravie care deeply about making a positive impact in the lives of the people we serve. We may not be the right place for everybody, but if you get energized by doing work every day that focuses on putting consumers at the front of the line, we could be a great place for you. It takes unique people and diverse perspectives to deliver our results. We encourage you to be your authentic self - we like you that way.
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