Sr. Data Engineer
Wellvana · Nashville, TN
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Jul 15, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on building and maintaining a data platform at a value-based healthcare company. Day-to-day work spans designing scalable pipelines from the ground up, managing cloud data infrastructure, implementing real-time streaming and API integrations, and supporting CI/CD and containerized deployments. The role suits an experienced data engineer comfortable with Python, SQL, dbt, Snowflake, and orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster, who will collaborate closely with analytics, product, and clinical teams.
Mid level · 4+ years · Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5 people in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 3–7
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $124,407 (middle half $86,358–$144,377).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting lists '2 years of senior product management experience' as a requirement — this appears to be a copy-paste error in the JD, as the role is clearly a data engineering position with no product management responsibilities described anywhere in the duties. This requirement was not mapped to a skill.
dbt appears twice: once under 'Years of Related Experience' as 'a plus' and again under 'Skills/Competencies/Behaviors' with 'Strong expertise in Python, dbt, and SQL'. The firm-language framing in the skills section would normally make it a hard gate, but the explicit 'a plus' qualifier in the experience section creates genuine ambiguity; it has been treated as preferred to reflect the posting's own hedge.
Kafka is explicitly called 'a plus' in the skills section and is therefore preferred.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent experience', so no minimum degree is flagged as a hard gate.
The role is titled 'Sr. Data Engineer' (Senior) but the minimum experience gate is 4 years of data engineering — more consistent with a Mid-level band. Seniority is set to Mid accordingly.
Location is inferred as Nashville, TN based on Wellvana's headquarters; the posting does not explicitly state a work location or remote policy.
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