Job Title: Lead Data Engineer

Company Name: Vida Health

Job Url: https://jobs.lever.co/vida/c6b61fcb-d847-4f0e-9cc5-c11dc36983f7

Job Description: Vida Health is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to own the reliability and integrity of the data platform that powers our clinical programs, billing and partner reporting.

You will own how data flows through Vida—from ingestion through governed outputs, ensuring the pipelines behind member care, revenue and client commitments are accurate, observable and resilient. This means building the foundations that catch failures early, isolate breakages and let engineering teams ship with confidence.
Responsibilities:
Own end-to-end reliability for core data pipelines—from ingestion through billing and reporting outputs.
Build observability foundations: health dashboards, tiered alerting and on-call signals that are actionable, not noisy.
Harden data ingestion with typed staging, quarantine patterns, freshness gates and safe backfill and replay capabilities.
Enforce schema contracts and quality validation so failures are caught in CI, not discovered by stakeholders.
Establish clear boundaries between governed core data and downstream BI and reporting layers.
Lead incident retrospectives that fix root causes, not just symptoms, and reduce future on-call burden.
Mentor 2–4 data engineers through code reviews, pairing and growth conversations.
Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree at a minimum.
7+ years in data engineering, with meaningful ownership of production pipelines and quality systems.
Deep dbt experience—you've maintained real deployments, not just prototypes.
Strong SQL and data modeling instincts, with an eye for performance and cost.
Python fluency for tooling, validation and automation.
Hands-on experience with data quality monitoring: contracts, freshness checks, schema enforcement and alerting.
Have led or mentored small engineering teams, formally or informally.
You think in systems—and you fix root causes, not just symptoms.
$165,000 - $175,000 a year
Vida is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

Diversity is more than a commitment at Vida—it is the foundation of what we do. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

We seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our platform and those we serve. Vida is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

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