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We partner with managed care organizations to provide innovative healthcare solutions that drive growth, improve outcomes, reduce costs, and bring value to their members.\nThrough our comprehensive suite of innovative supplemental benefits, fintech payment platforms, and member engagement solutions, we help health plans deliver high-quality benefits to their members that address the social determinants of health and improve member health outcomes and satisfaction.\nOur compliance-focused infrastructure, proprietary technology systems, and premier service delivery model allow our health plan partners to deliver high-quality, value-based care to millions of members.\nWe offer a fulfilling work environment that attracts top talent and encourages all associates to contribute to delivering premier service to internal and external customers alike. Our goal is to transform the healthcare industry for the better! We provide career advancement opportunities from within the organization across multiple locations in the US, South America, and India.\nSr Staff Engineer - Data Analytics\nRole Overview\nWe are seeking an experienced Sr Staff Engineer - Data Analytics to build and scale the data products, models, and analytical foundations that power decision-making and external customer reporting across the organization.\nThe role will work across Databricks, dbt, Tableau, and supporting data technologies to transform raw and curated data into trusted, reusable analytical products.\nKey Responsibilities\nAnalytics Engineering & Data Modeling\nDesign, build, test, and maintain production-grade analytical data models using dbt and Databricks.\nDevelop scalable Gold-layer models that translate operational data into business-ready analytical datasets\nDesign dimensional, domain-oriented, and reusable data models supporting reporting, analytics, and downstream data products.\nEstablish clear separation between raw/curated data, Gold analytical models, and the enterprise semantic layer.\nImplement testing, documentation, lineage, version control, and deployment practices for analytical data assets.\nSemantic Layer & Business Analytics\nDesign and evolve semantic models that provide consistent definitions for business metrics, dimensions, and KPIs.\nBuild analytical foundations optimized for consumption through Tableau and other BI or self-service tools.\nReduce duplicated business logic across dashboards, reports, and analyst workflows by centralizing reusable definitions.\nPartner with analysts and business teams to translate business concepts into governed analytical models ready for consumption by business users.\nData Product Development\nTreat analytical datasets, semantic models, and reusable metrics as data products with defined consumers, ownership, documentation, quality expectations, and lifecycle management.\nBuild reusable data products that support multiple downstream consumers rather than one-off reporting solutions.\nPartner with product, analytics, engineering, and business teams to identify high-value data products and prioritize development.\nImprove usability, discoverability, and self-service usage of analytical data across the organization.\nEngineering & Automation\nDevelop scripts and utilities using Python, SQL, shell scripting, or similar technologies to automate data preparation, validation, deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows.\nBuild repeatable engineering patterns that replace manual analytics processes.\nParticipate directly in code reviews, debugging, performance optimization, and production support.\nApply software engineering practices including Git, CI/CD, automated testing, modular development, and infrastructure-aware deployment.\nTechnical Leadership\nEstablish standards and design patterns for analytics engineering, modeling, semantic layers, and data products.\nProvide technical guidance and mentorship to analytics engineers, analysts, and adjacent data teams.\nReview architectures and code while remaining an active contributor to the platform.\nPartner with data platform and data engineering teams on architecture, performance, governance, and data quality.\nHelp define the roadmap for the organization's analytics engineering capability.\nQualifications\nAt least 10 years experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, business intelligence, or related disciplines.\nAdvanced SQL skills and strong experience designing analytical data models.\nProduction experience with dbt.\nStrong experience with Databricks, including Delta Lake and modern lakehouse patterns - direct Databricks experience required.\nExperience developing analytical solutions consumed through Tableau or comparable BI platforms.\nStrong understanding of dimensional modeling, Gold-layer architecture, semantic modeling, metrics, and data governance.\nExperience building reusable data products rather than primarily developing individual reports or dashboards.\nProficiency with Python and scripting/automation.\nExperience with Git, CI/CD, testing, code review, and modern software development practices.\nAbility to translate ambiguous business requirements into durable technical solutions.\nIdeal Profile\nThis role is best suited for someone who operates comfortably between analytics, software engineering, and data architecture. 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