Staff Data Engineer

Inovalon•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

Overview: The Staff Software Data will build and operate large-scale ingestion and transformation pipelines that power our enterprise data platform. You’ll own end-to-end delivery of batch + CDC pipelines into Snowflake, with strong operational maturity (quality, reliability, cost, observability).

Requirements

8–15 years in data engineering / data platform roles shipping production-grade pipelines.
Strong hands-on experience with: SQL (advanced) + performance-oriented data modeling Python (pipeline logic, automation; FastAPI is a plus) Airflow (or equivalent orchestration) including retries/backfills and dependency patterns Snowflake (query optimization, tasks/streams, Snowpipe, stored procedures) CDC / incremental loading patterns and operational handling of real-world edge cases AWS: S3, MWAA, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, EMR (plus IAM basics)
Experience operating systems at scale with clear ownership, reliability mindset, and strong documentation.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology

Responsibilities

Design, build, and support production ingestion pipelines (batch + incremental + CDC) using AWS services and orchestration frameworks.
Design systems that operate reliably at scale, supporting high-volume ingestion and multi‑tenant workloads
Build repeatable patterns for schema evolution, idempotency, deduplication, late-arriving data handling, backfills, and replay .
Implement Snowflake-side patterns: Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, stored procedures , warehouse sizing, query tuning, and cost controls.
Define and enforce data contracts and data quality gates (validation rules, reconciliation, anomaly detection, auditability).
Drive operational excellence: dashboards, alerts, runbooks, incident analysis, and continuous improvements to reduce reruns and MTTR.
Collaborate with platform engineers to standardize onboarding patterns and create reusable framework components for teams adopting Data Platform.
Adhere to all confidentiality, HIPAA, regulatory, and other such policies, procedures, and requirements as outlined within Employer’s Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the scope of work.
Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures and mission statement, and fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success.
Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical issues, including outside standard business hours (evenings, weekends, and holidays), ensuring timely response and resolution as per defined SLAs.