Associate, Data Engineer

AffirmedRx is on a mission to improve health care outcomes by bringing clarity, integrity, and trust to pharmacy benefit management. We are committed to making pharmacy benefits easy to understand, straightforward to access and always in the best interest of employers and the lives they impact. We accomplish this by bringing total clarity to business practices, leading with clinical approaches, and utilizing state-of-the-art technology.

Join us in improving health care outcomes for all!  We promise to do what’s right, always.

Position Summary:

The Associate, Data Engineer is responsible for maintaining the reliability and performance of AffirmedRx’s Snowflake data warehouse and upstream data ingestion pipelines. This hands-on role supports daily operations by monitoring file ingestion, data movement, transformation processes, scheduled loads, and troubleshooting data-related issues. The position also assists in expanding and enhancing the data warehouse through new tables, dbt models, automation, monitoring, and other development initiatives under the guidance of the Data Warehouse Manager. As a designated backup to the Senior Data Warehouse Engineer, the role helps ensure continuity of critical warehouse operations and reduces key-person dependency. Over time, the engineer will build technical expertise and assume greater ownership of data warehouse processes and solutions.

What you will do:

Warehouse and Pipeline Operations: 

Monitor daily Snowflake loads, file ingestion, and scheduled jobs; confirm expected files arrive, land correctly, and process without error

Operate and maintain drop-zone / upload-zone, data-lake, and SFTP file movement (e.g., Couchdrop, Azure Data Factory, service-account–based moves); triage failures and rejected files

Respond to file, load, and data-quality issues in a timely, well-documented way; escalate and coordinate with data engineering, pre-processing, and IT as needed

Maintain and act on file-level monitoring and alerting — “expected vs. received” tracking, format/validation alerts, and hold-folder sweeps

Backup and Continuity: 

Serve as trained backup for core data-warehouse operations so critical pipelines and client deliverables continue during absences and peak periods

Learn and document existing pipelines, jobs, schedules, and troubleshooting steps so recurring work is reproducible and not tied to a single person or personal account

Support recurring client and regulatory file deliverables (e.g., monthly stop-loss, claims, and accumulator files) on a shared, documented schedule

Warehouse Build and Enhancement: 

Build and maintain tables, views, and dbt models under direction; support data-model, data-vault, and schema work for reporting and analytics

Develop and maintain crawlers, file validators, and file-rejection rules; help automate manual file downloads and uploads into the warehouse

Assist with Snowflake administration tasks — role and grant management, MFA/security SOP adherence, storage-account configuration, clone and backup routines — following established security standards

Validation, Documentation, and Collaboration: 

QA loaded data and reconcile discrepancies across source systems before release; support data-accuracy checks and audits

Maintain clear documentation: pipelines, data sources, schedules, SOPs, and runbooks (including dev-to-production process)

Partner with data engineering, pre-processing, analytics, and IT/security to gather requirements and hand work into production

  What you need:

Degree in a quantitative or technical field (Computer Science, Information Systems, Data, Engineering) or equivalent experience; this is an early-career role

1–3 years of experience working with SQL and cloud data warehouse platforms, preferably Snowflake

Working SQL skills and familiarity with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred; comparable platforms considered)

Comfort with data files and pipelines — CSV/flat files, SFTP, encryption/PGP concepts, and troubleshooting file/load errors

Detail orientation, reliability, and a documentation habit; able to follow runbooks and escalate appropriately

Willingness to participate in a shared support/backup rotation for time-sensitive loads and deliverables

Exposure to dbt, Python for data work, Azure (Data Factory, storage/data lake), or Couchdrop-style file automation

Familiarity with data modeling, data vault, or warehouse monitoring and alerting

Healthcare, pharmacy benefit management (PBM), or claims/eligibility data exposure, and awareness of PHI/HIPAA handling

Familiarity with pharmacy data concepts (NDC, eligibility, accumulators, formulary) is a plus

Fully remote; reliable internet and a suitable home work environment

Occasional off-hours support may be required for time-sensitive loads, client files, or incident response

Willingness and ability to travel (10%-20%)

What you get:

To impact industry change in the pharmacy benefits management space, while delivering the highest quality patient outcomes

To work in a culture where people thrive because when OUR team thrives, OUR business thrives

Competitive compensation, including health, dental, vision and other benefits

Note: 

AffirmedRx is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Remote employees are expected to maintain a professional work environment free of distractions to ensure optimal performance and collaboration.