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Nexwave

Senior Data Engineering & Platform Engineer (DBT)

Contract · Remote · USA

Posted Sep 10, 2026

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  • Role : Senior Data Engineering & Platform Engineer
  • Location : Remote

Rate : $55/hr on C2C (own corp)/1099 (Max)

  • Should have dbt (Data Build Tool) project experience
  • Hands-on experience with dbt projects, including dbt models, SQL transformations, data quality testing, and production deployments.
  • We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform to join our Data Platform team and take ownership of designing and delivering large-scale, reliable, and governed data pipelines that power analytics, operations, and clinical intelligence.
  • This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives on solving complex data challenges, mentoring others, and raising engineering standards while contributing to scalable and sustainable platform growth.
  • As a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform, you’ll operate across the end-to-end data lifecycle—from ingestion to transformation to integration—driving solutions that align with architectural best practices, governance needs, and business outcomes.
  • You’ll partner closely with analytics engineers, architects, and product stakeholders to ensure that data products are performant, compliant, and trustworthy.

What you will do:

  • ● Lead the design and implementation of complex data pipelines and infrastructure across multiple domains
  • ● Mentor junior engineers, sharing expertise and raising team-wide engineering standards
  • ● Implement and enforce data quality, schema validation, and observability practices to ensure trustworthy outputs
  • ● Contribute to architecture discussions and tool evaluation, helping to shape platform scalability and governance alignment
  • ● Write clean, maintainable, and testable code in Python and SQL, following best practices in version control, CI/CD, and documentation
  • ● Optimize and monitor production workflows using tools such as Airflow, dbt, Athena, EMR, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet

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Senior Data Engineering & Platform Engineer (DBT)

Nexwave

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