Senior Staff Data Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Staff Data Engineer role is listed in Boston, MA; the posting describes pay ranges by geographic zone, with the Boston area included in Zone B at $196,400–$231,000 per year. SmithRx is a health technology company working to improve pharmacy benefit management through technology and customer service. The engineer sets data engineering strategy, designs and maintains distributed data systems, improves engineering practices, and supports analytics and machine learning teams with reliable, governed pharmaceutical data.

What you'll do

• Define data engineering strategy
• design pipelines and API boundaries
• make technical and framework decisions
• improve developer efficiency and engineering quality
• deliver systems with monitoring and success metrics
• align work with business goals
• enforce data governance, privacy, security, and compliance
• influence cross-functional roadmaps
• mentor engineers and communicate technical strategies to executives.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior staff data engineer

boston ma

smithrx

zone b $196,400–$231,000/year

data engineering

python

pyspark

sql

airflow

dbt

snowflake

pharmacy benefit management

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, pharmacy, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k)
• paid time off
• 12 company holidays
• parental leave
• commuter and wellness benefits
• professional development.

Why this role

The role uses tools and technologies including Python, PySpark, SQL, Airflow, dbt, and Snowflake, and may use large language models to optimize workflows.

About the employer

SmithRx is hiring for this role. Industry: Pharmacy Benefit Management and Other Third Party Administration of Insurance and Pension Funds. Sector: 52.