THE ESSENTIALS

This role is best suited for individuals who thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and bring a proven track record of delivering results through strong partnership and influence.

• Vision - the ability to zoom out, define what "good" looks like, and clearly communicate that direction across and beyond the organization.
• Strategic problem solving - the ability to translate vision into action by breaking complex opportunities or challenges into simple, executable strategies.
• Grounded Leadership - the ability to lead with confidence in direction while demonstrating humility in execution, taking ownership, seeking input, and adapting as new information emerges.
• Accountability and collaboration - the ability to take ownership of outcomes while motivating others to work effectively across the organization and setting clear expectations.
• Grit - the willingness and ability to overcome challenges, move beyond ideas, and consistently drive results.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Principal Data Engineer
Reporting To: Chief Digital, Technology & Data Officer (CTDO)
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. HCEsquared® does not sponsor or assume sponsorship of employment visas.

ROLE SUMMARY

We're hiring a Principal Data Engineer to build and own the data foundation powering HCEsquared's growth. We're a PE-backed specialty healthcare education platform, currently focused on dermatology and expanding into additional medical specialties. Youwill be building towards a mature platform, one that scales with the company.

You'll design and build the infrastructure that unifies our engagement platforms, CRM, conference technology, and third-party healthcare data on Snowflake (our warehouse of record) and AWS. Our analytics and data science teams - and the commercial data products we sell to pharmaceutical sponsors - depend on what you build.

If you want to own infrastructure where clean pipelines translate directly into sponsor revenue, clinical personalization, and business decisions, this is the role.

ACCOUNTABILITY

• Critical pipelines run reliably at high uptime; analytics and data science are never blocked by engineering failures
• Core data sources flow into the warehouse with clean, tested, documented transformations
• Claims and HCP intelligence data are ready for downstream analytics and commercial measurement
• Engineering standards, data dictionary, and technical documentation stay current
• The platform scales reliably as we add new sources, products, and specialty markets
• Enable data-informed decision-making across the business

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and maintain ETL and reverse-ETL pipelines connecting our MarTech and healthcare data stack - CRM, marketing automation, event management, content platforms, and third-party healthcare data - into the cloud data warehouse.
• Own the cloud data warehouse and its transformation layer - staging, business logic, and mart tables - keeping data clean, documented, and performant for analytics and data science.
• Integrate specialty healthcare datasets - pharmaceutical claims and HCP intelligence - with our first-party engagement data, building the joins and transformations that make them actionable for commercial measurement and clinical personalization.
• Define and enforce engineering best practices - code standards, testing, documentation, schema governance, and data dictionary - so analytics and data science can move fast without breaking things.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize pipeline performance, resolving data quality and availability issues before they block analytics.
• Stay current with the modern data stack and introduce new tools - connectors, transformation frameworks, orchestration, or ML compute - as we scale.
• Partner with analytics, data science, product, and commercial teams to turn business requirements into reliable, scalable solutions - making data accessible, never the bottleneck.

REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years in data or platform engineering, with proven ownership of production data infrastructure
• Expert SQL and deep hands-on Snowflake experience (required, not preferred - it's our warehouse of record)
• Strong experience with dbt or a similar SQL transformation framework - modeling, testing, documentation, and CI/CD
• Experience configuring and operating pipeline tooling such as Fivetran, Airbyte, or Segment at scale
• Strong hands-on AWS experience (our cloud), including data services like S3, Glue, Lambda, or EMR. Other clouds are a plus but not a substitute.
• Strong Python skills for custom pipelines and automation
• Experience integrating CRM, marketing automation, event, or content platforms via REST APIs, webhooks, or event streams
• Healthcare experience - especially pharmaceutical claims, HCP, or health system data - is a strong plus
• Able to explain architecture decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders

SALARY & BENEFITS

This is an opportunity to do meaningful work, grow your impact, and continue developing your expertise within a high-performing, mission-driven organization.

Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications. HCEsquared® offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health, flexibility, and professional growth of our team, including:

• Fully remote work environment with a flexible time off policy
• Dedicated professional development support, including reimbursement for approved learning and development activities.
• Comprehensive wellness benefits, including medical, vision, and dental coverage, with a significant portion of premiums subsidized for employees and eligible dependents, as well as access to HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care FSA plans
• Employer-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Cell phone reimbursement for business use
• Home office stipend to support a productive remote setup