Principal Data Engineer

At Trella Health, we are passionate and committed to our mission : empowering meaningful change in healthcare. Since our founding in 2015, we continue to grow our team, enhance our solution and services offerings, accelerate into new markets, and expand our customer base. We are rapidly growing and are looking for new Trellavators to join our team!

"What is a Trellavator?" you ask. Innovate and elevate is the name of our game! We go above and beyond to collaborate with and support each other. We believe that when a colleague or customers succeeds, we succeed. By learning from others, building on our successes, and taking risks, we constantly raise the bar. After all, continuous improvement is in our DNA. Our word is paramount, we keep our commitments, and we always follow through. We have a strong, reliable support system that fuels growth, collaboration, and passion—and together, we create a positive environment where everyone at Trella Health, including the customers we support, can thrive. Are you ready to learn more about the opportunities with our team? Trell-yeah you are!

Position Overview

We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. As the Principal Data Engineer, will be play a critical role in designing complex data models to support Trella's core product offerings, building ETL / ELT pipelines as well as maintain existing pipelines, collaborate closely with Data Scientists, and provide mentorship to other team members.

Location : This role is remote with a strong preference for candidates within commuting distance of Atlanta, GA; Philadelphia, PA; or Nashville, TN. We will also consider applicants based in other U.S. locations.

Reports to : Manager, Data Engineering

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain data models, pipelines, and architecture to support current and future product needs – focusing on healthcare datasets such as claims, EHR, BCDA, and CCLF.
• Design processes to consolidate data from multiple sources into a single source of truth.
• Contribute to data governance policies, standards, and procedures to ensure data quality, security, HIPAA and other regulatory compliance.
• Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks in ETL / ELT pipelines – ensuring the long term scalability of pipelines.
• Work closely with Data Scientists, Engineers, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into high-value, technical solutions.

Qualifications

This job might be a fit for you if you have :

Python

Experience working with dbt or SQLMesh

Role based access control, audit logging, and data governance

The Trellavator Experience

Trella Health provides unmatched, actionable market intelligence to post-acute care and value-based care providers of all sizes. Our industry leading analytics paired with CRM and EHR integration workflows positions us as the most advanced sales enablement platform for the post-acute care market. One of only a few companies to be deemed both a Qualified Entity by CMS and an Innovator under its Virtual Research Data Center Program, Trella has elite access to billions of performance metrics and referral data to enable competitive positioning across the market. Its standardized insights, representing 90% of all lives 65+ U.S. population, help customers identify, engage, and manage critical relationships and advance their organizations with certainty.

Since launching our first product in 2016, we have experienced tremendous growth and have highlighted a few key data points to get an at-a-glance view of Trella :

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries with a comprehensive benefits package to all employees and provide an environment that fosters work-life harmonization with Flexible Paid Time Off, along with remote-first work arrangements. Some of the benefits we provide are :

Equal Opportunity Employer

Trella Health is an equal opportunity employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, handicap, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status as recognized by federal, state, or local laws.

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