Clinical Data Engineer: ELT & DataOps Lead

ClearNote Health; San Mateo, San Diego (CA, CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

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Job summary

ClearNote Health, an early cancer detection company, seeks a Clinical Data Engineer II/III to own clinical data operations, data pipelines, warehouse, and reporting infrastructure. You will transform clinical, laboratory, and sequencing data into validated, audit-ready data in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities include building ELT pipelines, data contracts with partners, quality metrics, dashboards, and cross-functional collaboration with clinical and regulatory teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on data engineering in production data-transformation frameworks and cloud data warehouses.
• Deep SQL expertise and ability to identify subtle logic errors in complex queries.
• Experience with ELT and data-integration tools.
• Experience with designing, building and using containers.
• Proficiency in Python or a comparable scripting language.
• Familiarity with cloud IAM concepts (OAuth/OIDC, key-pair, workload federation).
• Proven ability to work in a regulated environment with documentation and audit trails.
• Desire to balance building new data systems with maintaining reliability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and documentation history.
• Familiarity with clinical data standards (CDASH/CDISC) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain ELT pipelines from clinical source systems into our data warehouse, including ad hoc sources.
• Support bulk data transfer initiatives to external partners and define data contracts.
• Develop, test, and refactor data transformation models across core clinical schemas.
• Define data quality metrics and monitor data quality across clinical datasets.
• Own the reliability of clinical result data end to end and manage change control.
• Unify data from multiple sources into an authoritative record with data contracts.
• Serve as a trusted partner to clinical and lab operations and external stakeholders.
• Build and maintain dashboards and monitoring, including system validation.
• Work with Regulatory/QA to ensure data flow and warehouse compliance.
• Provide guidance and training to research and development teams.

Skills

5+ years data engineering

SQL expertise

dbt

Python

Cloud data warehouse

ELT/data integration

Containerization

Regulated environment

Documentation/change control

CDASH/CDISC familiarity

Tools

dbt

Docker/containers

Job description

ClearNote Health, an early cancer detection company, seeks a Clinical Data Engineer II/III to own clinical data operations, data pipelines, warehouse, and reporting infrastructure. You will transform clinical, laboratory, and sequencing data into validated, audit-ready data in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities include building ELT pipelines, data contracts with partners, quality metrics, dashboards, and cross-functional collaboration with clinical and regulatory teams.