Senior Data Platform Engineer

Description:

ECP is a market-leading SaaS platform that helps senior living communities provide better care for their residents and is trusted by more than 8,000 communities around the world. As we continue to grow, we’re expanding both our customer base and the scope of our products to deliver even greater value to the senior living industry.

We’re seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer who is passionate about building scalable, reliable, and high-performance data infrastructure in the AWS ecosystem. In this role, you’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing our data ingestion and transformation platform, which integrates data from Microsoft SQL Server databases into AWS Redshift using AWS DMS and Change Data Capture (CDC).

You’ll collaborate closely with our data engineering and infrastructure teams to ensure our platform can scale efficiently, maintain data integrity, and enable analytics at enterprise scale. This is a highly impactful role for someone who thrives on solving complex data engineering challenges and enjoys working in a fast-growing SaaS environment. 

Join our talented infrastructure team and company culture that values creativity, opportunity, and professional development!

We are open to fully remote candidates within the United States.

• Design, build, and maintain data ingestion pipelines from Microsoft SQL Server to AWS Redshift using AWS DMS and CDC.
• Architect scalable and fault-tolerant data workflows that ensure high data quality, low latency, and consistent performance.
• Develop frameworks and automation to streamline onboarding of new databases into the data platform.
• Collaborate with data analysts, application developers, and DevOps engineers to ensure seamless data availability and integrity across systems.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and recovery mechanisms for large-scale data movement pipelines.
• Optimize AWS DMS configurations, Redshift performance, and SQL Server CDC processes for throughput and efficiency.
• Manage and tune database replication strategies to handle high data volume and concurrency.
• Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and healthcare standards.
• Document platform architecture, pipeline workflows, configurations, and standard operating procedures.
• Stay current with AWS data services and modern data platform best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform development, preferably in large-scale, distributed data environments.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, including CDC, replication, performance tuning, and query optimization.
• Proficiency with AWS data services such as DMS, Redshift, S3, Glue, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
• Experience designing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines using tools like DBT for large, high-volume data ingestion.
• Familiarity with Python or other scripting languages for automation and data transformation.
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD practices.
• Deep understanding of data modeling, schema evolution, and data lineage concepts.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with a collaborative mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.