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Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Senior Data Engineer builds scalable healthcare data pipelines and warehouses, integrating EHR systems and ensuring high-quality clinical data flows.

Our client is a leader in the US healthcare space and is looking for a Senior / Lead Data Engineer to build their internal data engineering operation from the ground up.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement a scalable data ingestion framework that can pull data from multiple client electronic health record (EHR) and related systems.
  • Build reusable connectors and integration patterns to support a variety of clinical and healthcare platforms.
  • Architect and maintain a unified, flexible data warehouse schema that can accommodate diverse and evolving data sources.
  • Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines with a strong focus on reliability, maintainability, and high data quality.
  • Set up and manage monitoring, logging, and error-handling mechanisms across data workflows.
  • Own projects end-to-end from technical design and implementation through documentation and final delivery.
  • Partner with engineering leadership to shape milestones, delivery timelines, and cross-team dependencies.

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands‑on experience in data engineering, including successful delivery of complex data integration initiatives.
  • Solid background in modern data warehouse architectures (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery or similar).
  • Deep experience with API‑based data ingestion and the development of custom data connectors.
  • Proficiency with contemporary data pipeline tools and orchestration frameworks.
  • Previous experience working with healthcare data or health‑tech platforms.
  • Demonstrated ownership mindset, strong self‑direction, and ability to independently drive major projects to completion.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building multi‑tenant and/or multi‑source ingestion frameworks.
  • Background in designing generalized or unified data models/schemas.
  • Exposure to cloud infrastructure and CI/CD practices specifically for data platforms and pipelines.

Benefits

  • 100% remote
  • HMO

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