What You'll Be Working On (Duties include but not limited to):
- Data Engineering Strategy and Architecture:
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines to support clinical, operational, and business needs.
- Develop and maintain architecture standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices across data engineering workflows.
- Build automated systems for data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration leveraging cloud-native and open-source tools.
- Data Infrastructure and Performance Optimization:
- Optimize data storage and processing in data lakes and cloud data warehouses (Azure, Databricks).
- Develop and monitor batch and streaming data processes to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.
- Maintain documentation and lineage tracking across datasets and pipelines to support transparency and governance.
- Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:
- Work cross-functionally with analysts, data scientists, software engineers, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver fit-for-purpose data solutions.
- Review and refine work completed by other team members, ensuring quality and performance standards are met.
- Provide technical mentorship to junior team members and collaborate with contractors and third-party vendors to extend engineering capacity.
- Technology and Tools:
- Use Databricks, DBT, Azure Data Factory, and SQL to architect and deploy robust data engineering solutions.
- Integrate APIs, structured/unstructured data sources, and third-party systems into centralized data platforms.
- Evaluate and implement new technologies to enhance the scalability, observability, and automation of data operations.
- Other Responsibilities
- Continuous Improvement: Proactively suggest improvements to infrastructure, processes, and automation to improve system efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance performance.
Scope of Role:
- Autonomy of Role: Work is performed under limited supervision
- Direct Reports: No
Physical Requirements:
- This role requires 100% of work to be performed in a remote office environment and requires the ability to use keyboards and other computer equipment.
Travel Requirements:
- This is a remote position with less than 10% travel requirements. Occasional planned travel may be required as part of the role.
What You Bring (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):
- Strong expertise in Databricks, SQL, dbt, Python, and cloud data ecosystems such as Azure.
- Experience working with structured and semi-structured data from diverse domains.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Azure Data Factory), and modern software engineering practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to address complex data challenges and drive toward scalable solutions.
Certifications, Education, and Experience:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering with a proven track record of building cloud-based, production-grade data pipelines.
Benefits (US Full-Time Employees Only):
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Company Paid Holidays
- 100% Employer paid medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options
- Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Bi-weekly HSA employer contribution
- Company paid Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability
- 401(k) Retirement Plan, with Company Match
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What We Do
Care Access is a leading decentralized research organization (DRO) that breaks down traditional barriers in clinical research for patients, sponsors, and physicians. Its innovative model brings decentralized trials, Sites On Demand™, Virtual PIs, and Mobile Sites to previously-unreachable patient populations to expand the impact of clinical research. Supported by top pharmaceutical and biotech partners across 20 different therapeutic areas, Care Access is scaling and globalizing its new model for clinical trial delivery, where more physicians and patients can engage in life-saving research to develop new therapies faster.
To find out how Care Access is transforming the future of clinical trials, visit www.careaccess.com or email [email protected].








