Principal Data Engineer

OUR COMPANY

HCEsquared® is a leading healthcare solutions platform developed by healthcare specialists for healthcare specialists to elevate patient care. We serve our community of clinicians by delivering practical clinical and non-clinical content through digital and in-person connections​. We provide our clinicians with solutions to serve their patients through onsite and digital educational content based on the newest and best therapies and techniques from respected thought leaders in the field of dermatology as well as services to enhance their career trajectories. Our offerings have been proven to enhance clinician confidence, demonstrated by our exceptional audience and partner retention rates for our ecosystem. For more details on our clinician offerings and continuing medical education, please visit our portfolio companies on the hcesquared.com website. Our conferences can be viewed at www.dermsquared.org

WHY JOIN HCESQUARED®?

At HCEsquared®, our mission is simple: elevate patient outcomes by elevating the people who deliver care. When you join us, you become part of a team that blends healthcare expertise, educational excellence, and a shared commitment to making a measurable impact.

Meaningful Work
Your contributions directly strengthen the skills and performance of healthcare professionals. Your work ultimately improves patient lives.

Growth-Driven Culture
We develop our people through coaching, stretch assignments, and opportunities to lead. Your professional growth isn’t a perk, it’s a priority.

Values-Led Teamwork
You’ll collaborate with high-performing colleagues who care about integrity and continuous improvement.

Empowered Innovation
We encourage new ideas and give you the autonomy to innovate and improve processes.

Flexibility With Accountability
Remote work creates the flexibility you need while maintaining the high expectations for performance, communication, and ownership.

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