Data Engineer with Apache Airflow

Job Description: Data Engineer with Apache Airflow

Who we are: At CitiusTech, we constantly strive to solve the industry's greatest challenges with technology, creativity, and agility. With over 8,500 healthcare technology professionals worldwide, CitiusTech powers healthcare digital innovation, business transformation, and industry-wide convergence for over 140 organizations through next-generation technologies, solutions, and products. We aim to accelerate the transition to a human-first, sustainable, and digital healthcare ecosystem with the world's leading Healthcare and life sciences organizations and our partners.

Job Title: Data Engineer with Apache Airflow Industry: Healthcare Domain
Skills: Airflow, Snowflake, PostGres, Python, Astronomer

Summary: 
We’re looking for an experienced Airflow Engineer to join our growing Data Engineering team. In this role, you’ll help architect and implement intricate, efficient DAGs to orchestrate the ingestion and processing of healthcare and healthcare-related data at scale. You'll collaborate across teams to translate complex business workflows into reliable, readable Airflow pipelines that power downstream processes and insights.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop modular Airflow DAGs that are clear, testable, and efficient, ideally structured in a way that allows for reuse and interaction between DAGs where appropriate

• Partner with other data engineers to implement a new healthcare data orchestration platform focused on visibility, performance, and scale

• Participate in architectural discussions and shape best practices for Airflow usage across the organization

• Work directly with stakeholders to understand workflows and ensure technical alignment with business goals

• Contribute to a GitHub-driven engineering environment with a focus on code quality and collaboration

• Write unit tests and end-to-end tests for orchestration pipelines to ensure production-grade reliability

• Work with tools like Snowflake, Postgres, and object storage to manage structured and semi-structured batch data workflows

Required:

• Strong experience developing with Apache Airflow 2+ in a production environment

• Fluency in Python and designing modular, testable code

• Deep understanding of DAG design patterns, task dependencies, and Airflow orchestration best practice. 

• Experience working with cloud platforms and cloud-native technologies

• Experience working with Snowflake, Postgres, and other database and data platforms

• Familiarity with processing and transforming various data types and formats (e.g., JSON, CSV, Parquet)

• Comfort navigating and understanding evolving data schemas across structured and semi-structured sources

• Experience with DAG monitoring, logging, and observability tools

• Solid testing background including both unit testing and end-to-end DAG validation

• Ability to work collaboratively with stakeholders and engineers to map real-world workflows to technical solutions

• Comfort with ambiguity and a passion for making complex systems more visible and manageable

• Familiarity with handling sensitive data in a compliant, secure way

Preferred:

• Experience using Astronomer

• Background in healthcare or healthcare data domains

Life at CitiusTech
We focus on building highly motivated engineering teams and thought leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset, centered on our core values of Passion, Respect, Openness, Unity, and Depth (PROUD) of knowledge. Our success lies in creating a fun, transparent, non-hierarchical, diverse work culture that focuses on continuous learning and work-life balance. Rated by our employees as the Great Place to Work according to the Great Place to Work survey. We offer you a comprehensive set of benefits to ensure that you have a long and rewarding career with us.
Our EVP
Be You Be Awesome is our EVP and it reflects our continuing efforts to create CitiusTech as a great place to work where our employees can thrive, both personally and professionally. It encompasses the unique benefits and opportunities we offer to support your growth, well-being, and success throughout your journey with us and beyond. Together with our clients, we are solving some of the greatest healthcare challenges and positively impacting human lives. Welcome to the world of Faster Growth, Higher Learning, and Stronger Impact.