175. Senior Data Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join Source Meridian.

About Source Meridian

Source Meridian is a development software company that works to solve the industry’s most challenging problems in healthcare practices. We are laser focused on specific technologies in the healthcare and life science industries: Healthcare technology, artificial intelligence, and healthcare interoperability.

About the role

We're growing a data engineering team for a US-based client whose entire data platform runs on Databricks on AWS. The immediate priority is building out and scaling their data ingestion layer — bringing in data from a wide range of source systems reliably, efficiently, and in a way that holds up as the platform grows. You'll work closely with two client-side teams: The DBA team, who own data governance and are the authority on source systems, access, and data stewardship.

What You'll do

• Design, build, and maintain ingestion pipelines into Databricks from a variety of source systems.
• Build and optimize Spark workloads in Python — batch and streaming.
• Model and structure data in Delta Lake following medallion-style patterns (bronze / silver / gold).
• Partner with the DBA team on governance, access, and data quality expectations, and with the Data & Analytics team so ingested data actually serves their reporting and strategy needs.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune pipelines for reliability, cost, and performance.
• Document pipelines, data contracts, and design decisions so the work is maintainable by the team.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer

• Strong, demonstrable Databricks experience. Someone who knows the platform well in production, not just conceptually. Delta Lake, workflows/jobs, clusters and compute
  configuration, Unity Catalog.

• Advanced Python for data engineering.

• Strong Apache Spark — including an understanding of how to diagnose and fix performance problems, not just write working code.

• AWS fundamentals as they relate to a data platform (S3, IAM, networking basics, secrets management).

• SQL at a strong level.

• Experience designing ingestion pipelines from multiple heterogeneous source systems.

• Senior-level autonomy: able to take an ambiguous requirement, ask the right questions, and deliver.

• B2+ or superior english level 

Nice to have

• • Experience connecting Databricks to on-premises systems (networking, private connectivity, gateways, CDC from on-prem databases).
  • Experience with other cloud data platforms — Snowflake, BigQuery, Synapse, Redshift.
  • Streaming and CDC tooling (Structured Streaming, Auto Loader, Debezium, Kafka).
  • Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles) and CI/CD for data pipelines.
  • Orchestration beyond Databricks Workflows (Airflow, dbt).
  • Databricks certifications (Data EngineerAssociate / Professional).
  • Prior experience working with governance-heavy or regulated data environments.

What We Offer

✔ Permanent contract
✔ High-impact projects in the healthcare industry
✔ Learning and continuous growth environment 🚀
✔ Competitive salary based on experience 💰
✔ Collaborative and international team

📍 Apply only if you reside in Ecuador 📍

At Source Meridian, you’ll be part of a high-impact tech-health company, building products that truly make a difference.

If you meet the profile — or know someone who might be interested — apply now!

We’d love to meet you 💬