CodaMetrix - Principal Data Engineer
Requirements
• Must-Haves • A degree in Computer Science or a related field (Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D.), or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrable professional experience • 8+ years of data engineering experience with progressive responsibility • 8+ years • 5+ years hands-on experience with the Databricks platform (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Structured Streaming, Spark SQL, cluster management, platform administration) • 5+ years • Databricks platform • Expert proficiency in PySpark and Python; working knowledge of Scala • Expert proficiency • PySpark • Python • Expert experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code (state management, modular structures, multi-environment deployments, YAML-driven configuration) • Terraform • Expert experience with Apache Kafka / AWS MSK (streaming ingestion, SASL/IAM auth, topic management, cluster migrations) • Apache Kafka / AWS MSK • Deep understanding of medallion/lakehouse architecture patterns (bronze/silver/gold, SCD2, materialized views, slowly changing dimensions) • medallion/lakehouse architecture • Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) for data platform deployments • CI/CD pipelines • Expert SQL skills — complex CTEs, window functions, performance optimization of large-scale queries across petabyte-scale datasets • Strong AWS experience (S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, VPC/Private Link, cross-region replication) • Demonstrated ability to operate in a HIPAA-regulated environment with PHI handling requirements • HIPAA-regulated • Experience with disaster recovery architecture — cross-region replication, failover procedures, read-only replicas • disaster recovery architecture • Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini, Codex) and agentic workflows to augment design, development, and testing processes. • Huge Plus: Prior experience working with healthcare data, such as medical claims, electronic health records (EHR), or billing code systems (ICD-10, CPT). Familiarity with healthcare data standards like HL7 or FHIR is highly desirable. Track record of influencing technical direction beyond immediate team — architecture reviews, establishing org-widestandards, technology selection. Strategic ability to make build-vs-buy decisions and evaluate emerging technologies for platform evolution • Huge Plus • influencing technical direction • build-vs-buy decisions • Location: Boston, MA/Remote - Hybrid • Location: • Job Type: Full-time, exempt , regular • Job Type:
Responsibilities
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap - Own the vision, architecture, and roadmap for the CodaMetrix data platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, regulatory alignment, and operational excellence. Lead key technology decisions, disaster recovery design, architecture reviews, and data engineering standards across teams. • Own the technical strategy and roadmap - • Platform Engineering at Scale - Design, build, and maintain scalable streaming and batch data platforms Databricks using PySpark, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, and Structured Streaming. Own Terraform-based infrastructure across environments, including jobs, catalogs, schemas, permissions, compute policies, volumes, and external locations. Build Jenkins CI/CD workflows for automated testing, tagging, and deployments, while optimizing training pipelines, materialized views, retention policies, and production performance. • Platform Engineering at Scale - • Data Governance & Security - Implement and evolve least-privilege access controls across Databricks using Unity Catalog grants, YAML-driven group policies, and schema-level restrictions. Ensure HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance through PHI masking, audit logging, environment-level data segmentation, user provisioning, compute policies, and cost attribution. • Data Governance & Security - • Cost Optimization & Operational Excellence - Drive platform cost reduction through compute policy tuning, serverless optimization, reserved pools, materialized view improvements, and remediation of underutilized resources. Monitor Databricks/AWS spend (using tools like CloudZero and AWS Cost Explorer), own cost attribution and budgeting, resolve production incidents, and maintain runbooks to ensure platform SLAs for uptime and performance. • Cost Optimization & Operational Excellence - • Cross-Functional Enablement & Mentorship - Enable ML, BI, Analytics, DevOps, and customer success and implementation teams with training data pipelines, model-ready datasets, feature store architecture, optimized views, dashboards, Tableau refreshes, infrastructure changes, and tenant onboarding. Mentor engineers through code and design reviews, establish quality standards, and serve as a subject matter expert for data platform engineering across the organization. • Cross-Functional Enablement & Mentorship -
Benefits
• What CodaMetrix can offer you: • Learn more about our full-time employee benefits and how we take care of our team. • Health Insurance: We cover 80% of the cost of medical and dental insurance and offer vision insurance • Retirement: We offer a 401(k) plan that eligible employees can contribute to one month after their first day • Flexibility: We have a generous Paid Time Off policy, which is managed but not limited, so you can take the time you need to relax and rejuvenate • Development: We provide annual performance evaluations and prioritize working with employees on what their individual growth looks like • Recognition: We recognize the outstanding achievements of our team through annual company awards where employees have the opportunity to nominate their peers • Office Location: A modern open plan workspace located in the bustling Back Bay neighborhood of Boston • Additional Employer Paid Benefits: We offer employer-paid life insurance and short-term and long-term disability insurance • Background Check Notice • All candidates will be required to complete a background check upon acceptance of a job offer. • Equal Employment Opportunity • Our company, as well as our products, are made better because we embrace diverse skills, perspectives, and ideas. CodaMetrix is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. • Don’t meet every requirement? We invite you to apply anyway. Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At CodaMetrix we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and encourage you to consider joining us. • Don’t meet every requirement? We invite you to apply anyway.
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