Contract Clinical Data Engineer - Build Clean Pipelines

Specialist Staffing Group; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Specialist Staffing Group is seeking qualified Clinical Data Engineers for contract roles based in San Diego, California. Responsibilities include designing data pipelines, ensuring data quality, and supporting analytics in regulated healthcare environments.

Ideal candidates will have strong SQL skills, experience with data pipelines, and familiarity with HIPAA-compliant data management, data governance, and analytics tooling. This is a contract-based opportunity with competitive daily rates.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in data engineering or related data infrastructure roles.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and data pipelines maintenance.
• Experience with data quality management and validation practices.
• Understanding of HIPAA compliance and regulated data environments.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining data pipelines that ingest, transform and validate clinical datasets.
• Collaborating with clinical teams and data analysts to understand data requirements and quality standards.
• Implementing data quality checks and monitoring processes to ensure accuracy and completeness of clinical records.
• Managing data lineage and documentation to support compliance, audit and analytical transparency.
• Troubleshooting data issues and working with stakeholders to resolve data quality gaps.
• Supporting analytics teams by preparing and optimizing datasets for reporting and statistical analysis.
• Participating in technical reviews and contributing to improvements in data architecture and pipeline efficiency.

Skills

SQL

Data pipelines

Data quality

HIPAA compliance

Analytics tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences

Bachelor's degree in Data Science

Tools

Cloud platforms

Data warehouse

BI tools

Job description

Specialist Staffing Group is seeking qualified Clinical Data Engineers for contract roles based in San Diego, California. Responsibilities include designing data pipelines, ensuring data quality, and supporting analytics in regulated healthcare environments.

Ideal candidates will have strong SQL skills, experience with data pipelines, and familiarity with HIPAA-compliant data management, data governance, and analytics tooling. This is a contract-based opportunity with competitive daily rates.