Remote Staff Data Engineer, Core Migrations
Machinify
Job Description
Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country. Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives, Machinify brings together a fully configurable and content-rich, AI-powered platform along with best-in-class expertise. We’re constantly reimagining what’s possible in our industry, creating disruptively simple, powerfully clear ways to maximize financial outcomes and drive down healthcare costs.
As a Staff Data Engineer on the Migrations team , you are the end-to-end technical and operational owner of client migrations. You will drive the full lifecycle, from deep-dive legacy analysis to production deployment, while orchestrating collaboration across Operations, Client Success, Product, Data Science and Platform Engineering. You don't just implement; you own the outcome.
This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role for someone who can think like an architect, execute like a senior engineer, and coordinate like a program manager — all on the same project. You'll own the problem space from discovery to go-live, making the defining architectural decisions and writing the code that brings them to life. What You’ll Do Lead discovery comfortable designing and authoring production DAG architectures from scratch.
AI-assisted development — actively uses coding agents (Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or equivalent) as a force multiplier in daily engineering work. Comfortable prompt-engineering for code generation, debugging, and documentation, and able to evaluate and trust AI output critically. Legacy ETL stack — able to reconstruct intent from code and translate it faithfully into a modern stack (e.g., From SSIS, SQL Server stored procedures, T-SQL, or equivalent).
Data validation the standards and patterns you set will shape how dozens of future migrations run What We Offer Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first. Full Medical/Dental/Vision for employees