Senior Data Engineer – Healthcare Technology
Elevated Hires is recruiting a Senior Data Engineer to build and scale a modern healthcare data platform supporting analytics, care coordination, and value-based care. This position is ideal for an experienced engineer who can independently make high-impact architectural decisions and develop secure, reliable data systems.
Candidates located in Pittsburgh are preferred; qualified U.S.-based remote candidates will also be considered.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect scalable, secure, and highly reliable data systems.
- Build and maintain production-grade pipelines that ingest, process, and enrich large volumes of healthcare data.
- Establish data-quality, governance, monitoring, and validation standards.
- Optimize system performance through query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and related strategies.
- Design and deploy cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Protect sensitive healthcare information and maintain HIPAA and HITRUST compliance.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, and clinical operations teams.
- Contribute to system architecture, CI/CD, test automation, and DevOps standards.
- Simplify complex technical problems and make independent architectural decisions.
Required Qualifications
- At least five years of dedicated data engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience with Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform, including ingestion frameworks, connectors, data models, and interoperability workflows.
- Expert SQL skills and advanced proficiency in Python or Scala.
- Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift.
- Knowledge of data-lake technologies such as Amazon S3 and Delta Lake.
- Experience with Apache Spark or Dask.
- Strong knowledge of AWS services, including S3, Lambda, and RDS.
- Experience with Apache Airflow or AWS Step Functions.
- Understanding of healthcare data, HIPAA, HITRUST, and FHIR.
- Strong background in system architecture, scalability, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
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