# Principal Data Engineer

About Medical Guardian: Medical Guardian is a fast-growing digital health and safety company on a mission to help people live a life without limits. With 13 consecutive years on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies, we are redefining what it means to age confidently and independently. We support over 625,000 members nationwide with life-saving emergency response systems and remote patient monitoring solutions. Trusted by families, healthcare providers, and care managers, our work is powered by a culture of innovation, compassion, and purpose. Mission: This role is focused on building and leading the data engineering foundation that powers real-time decisioning, operational applications, analytics, ML/AI model development, and data services across Medical Guardian. The Principal Data Engineer will own the design, delivery, and maturity of production-grade data pipelines and data platforms, with a primary emphasis on real-time streaming, IoT telemetry, Databricks, Azure, data services for APIs and microservices, and reliable data products for downstream consumption. Role Summary: We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical and people leade

- **Id**: 22385
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/medical-guardian-principal-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Philadelphia, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T19:01:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 13283
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Patient Monitoring

## Company

- **Id**: 6309
- **Name**: Medical Guardian
- **Domain**: medicalguardian.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/medical-guardian>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 119000
- **Max usd**: 233000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 390

## Technologies

- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Shuffle** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Azure Cosmos DB** — Optional: yes
- **Azure Data Factory** — Optional: yes
- **Feature Store** — Optional: yes
- **FinOps** — Optional: yes
- **HIPAA** — Optional: yes
- **Incident Management** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 2
- **Flags**: repost
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-07-06T00:00:00Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-22T20:59:56Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-09T04:21:01Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-16T15:55:31Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-13T01:00:18Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 65
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.645
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:1, repost:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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