Senior Data Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Department: Payment Solutions

Opportunity Overview:

We are seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to help drive the technical vision of our Data Engineering team as we scale our infrastructure, services, and architecture. This role is ideal for someone who blends deep technical expertise with strategic thinking and cross-functional influence.

As a Sr. Data Engineer, you will partner closely with other data and analytics engineers, architects, product leaders, and business stakeholders to evolve our data infrastructure in support of high-trust, scalable, and business-aligned outcomes. You’ll also serve as a force multiplier across teams; raising the bar for data engineering excellence and accelerating the maturity of our data platform capabilities.

What you’ll do:

• Develop, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data from multiple source systems into enterprise data platforms. 
• Ensure pipelines are scalable, reusable, fault-tolerant, and optimized for batch and near real-time processing requirements.
• Develop interactive dashboards, scorecards, and KPI reporting solutions using BI tools. Deliver executive, operational, and analytical reporting aligned with business goals.
• Identify repetitive manual reporting processes and automate them using scripting, workflow orchestration, scheduling tools, and dashboard refresh mechanisms to improve efficiency, accuracy, and turnaround time.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and leadership teams to understand data integration and reporting needs, define KPIs, document business rules, and translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Implement data validation checks, reconciliation controls, lineage documentation, metadata standards, and governance policies to maintain trusted, secure, and compliant data assets across the organization.
• Provide technical guidance, code reviews, best practices, and mentor junior team members.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents related to pipelines, delayed reports, data mismatches, access issues, and system bottlenecks. Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive fixes.
• Continuously improve platform reliability, performance, scalability, observability, security, and cost efficiency through engineering excellence and proactive monitoring.

ISMS roles and responsibilities:

• Good knowledge of Information practices.
• Assist the manager in all the information security activities implementation and maintenance process.
• Ensuring the  team and imparted with Competence related to Information security
• Responsible for implementation of security policies and procedures and report any issues to the Information Security Manager.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering demonstrating expertise in designing scalable data platforms, building robust ETL/ELT pipelines, optimizing data workflows, implementing cloud-based solutions, and delivering reliable, high-performance data systems that support business growth and analytics needs.
• 5+ years of experience in developing automated data ingestion pipelines that integrate data sourced from multiple streams  into enterprise platforms through cleansing, transformation, validation, and scheduled batch or near real-time processing workflows.
• Strong proficiency in writing and tuning advanced SQL queries, views, and data models to improve report performance and reduce processing time by monitoring indexing, partitioning, query plans, and database resource utilization.
• 5+ years of proven expertise in cloud-based, distributed environments (e.g., AWS, EMR, Glue, Iceberg, dbt, Lambda, Athena).
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing secure client data integrations, including inbound and outbound file exchanges, SFTP transfers, API-based data ingestion, and reliable end-to-end data delivery between client systems and internal platforms.
• Fluency in modern data architecture patterns, including medallion/lakehouse models, schema evolution, streaming ingestion, and batch orchestration.
• Familiarity with reporting and dashboarding tools such as AWS QuickSIght or Tableau.
• Designed and maintained low-latency, high-availability data pipelines to support near real-time processing, timely reporting, and reliable downstream data consumption.
• Monitored production pipelines and triaged data incidents by performing root cause analysis, resolving failures, fixing data quality issues, and ensuring SLA adherence.
• Implemented strong data governance, observability, and quality controls including schema validation, lineage tracking, alerting, reconciliation checks, and policy-based access management.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, version control, and DevOps practices using GitHub, AWS code pipeline.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Hyderabad, Telangana: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Interview Process*:

1. Connect with Talent Acquisition 
2. Meet with the Hiring Manager
3. Behavioral Interview(s)
4. Case Study
5. Interview with Senior Leadership

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform and agentic AI-powered solutions connect health plans’ strategic goals and providers’ needs, optimizing the speed, cost, and quality of care. With an enterprise approach that streamlines payer-provider decision-making across the care continuum–including policy, prior authorization, payment accuracy, and more–the company improves collaboration and reduces burden, resulting in up to 8x ROI and 94% provider satisfaction. 

With the acquisition of ZignaAI, we expanded our AI-native platform with a comprehensive Payment Integrity Suite that spans data mining, clinical and coding validation, authorization and claims reconciliation, and end-to-end payment integrity services across pre- and post-pay workflows. By connecting clinical and payment insights, our transparent, AI-powered solutions help health plans proactively improve payment accuracy, reduce waste and vendor dependency, strengthen provider relationships, and build smarter, more efficient payment integrity programs.

Cohere Health’s innovations continue to receive industry-wide recognition. We’ve been recognized on TIME’s World Top HealthTech Companies 2025 list, the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers (2022-2025), and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup for 2023 & 2024.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement: 

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all.  To us, it’s personal.