Data Integration Lead - Healthcare

Kforce Inc; Norwalk (CT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

HSA/FSA benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Kforce is seeking a senior Healthcare Data Integration Engineering Lead in Norwalk, CT to design, build, and scale critical healthcare data integrations with external partners and internal systems. You will stay close to code while guiding technical direction and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes building production-ready integrations, overseeing data quality, and leading engineering efforts in a fast-paced healthcare technology environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, integration engineering, or backend development in healthcare technology.
• Direct healthcare industry experience, ideally within health insurance, claims processing, or TPAs.
• Strong understanding of the medical claims lifecycle including processing, adjudication, payments, and reconciliation.
• Hands-on experience designing, coding, and supporting production integrations.
• Experience with Python or similar languages, SQL, APIs, and AWS.
• Experience with flat-file and API-based data exchange.
• Experience with data transformation, validation, and integration contracts.
• Reliability-focused with strong incident monitoring and troubleshooting abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support integrations with healthcare payers, TPAs, and provider organizations.
• Develop production solutions for exchanging healthcare data via APIs and file formats (CSV, JSON, XML).
• Create ingestion and transformation workflows to convert partner data into internal structures.
• Own integration specifications, schemas, mappings, validation rules, and technical docs.
• Support claims and payment data flows including reconciliation and downstream processing.
• Develop validation, duplicate detection, error handling, and recovery capabilities.
• Monitor production integrations and troubleshoot data quality issues.
• Collaborate with external teams to launch new integrations and resolve issues.

Skills

Python

SQL

APIs

AWS

Data integration

Healthcare tech

Communication

Technical leadership

Tools

S3

Lambda

SQS

EventBridge

Glue

Job description

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Healthcare Data Integration Engineering Lead in Norwalk, CT. About the Opportunity: We are seeking a senior, hands-on Healthcare Integration Engineering Lead to help build and scale the technology that moves critical healthcare data between external partners and internal systems. This is an ideal opportunity for an engineer who understands both software development and the healthcare claims ecosystem. You will design integrations, write production code, solve complex data exchange challenges, and work directly with healthcare partners to ensure claims, payment, provider, and other operational data moves accurately and reliably. This is not a reporting, analytics, or traditional data warehouse position. We are looking for someone who enjoys building integration solutions and staying close to the code, while also serving as a technical leader. What You'll Do:

• Design, build, and support integrations with healthcare payers, TPAs, provider organizations, and other external partners
• Develop production solutions for exchanging healthcare data through APIs and file-based formats such as CSV, JSON, and XML
• Build ingestion and transformation workflows that convert partner data into consistent internal data structures
• Own integration specifications, schemas, mappings, validation rules, and technical documentation
• Support healthcare claims and payment-related data flows, including reconciliation and downstream processing
• Develop validation, duplicate detection, error handling, and recovery capabilities to improve data accuracy
• Monitor production integrations and troubleshoot issues involving data quality, failed processing, or partner exchanges
• Collaborate directly with external technical teams to launch new integrations and resolve production issues
• Partner internally with Software Engineering, Product, Operations, Analytics, and other teams that depend on integrated healthcare data

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, integration engineering, backend development, healthcare technology, or a closely related area
• Direct healthcare industry experience is required, ideally within health insurance, claims processing, a TPA, benefits administration, or healthcare technology
• Strong understanding of the medical claims lifecycle, including claims processing, adjudication, payments, adjustments, and reconciliation
• Hands-on experience designing, coding, and supporting production integrations
• Strong experience with Python or similar backend development languages, SQL, APIs, and AWS
• Experience building solutions involving flat-file and API-based data exchange
• Experience with data transformation, validation, integration contracts, and standardized internal data models
• Experience supporting production systems with an emphasis on reliability, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Ability to work directly with external partners and translate business and technical requirements into working solutions
• Strong communication skills and the ability to provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on

Nice To Have

• Experience with AWS services such as S3, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, or Glue
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability and transaction standards such as X12, HL7, or FHIR
• Experience working with HIPAA-regulated healthcare data
• Previous technical leadership or engineering mentorship experience

Why Join:

This position offers the opportunity to have a significant impact on a growing healthcare technology environment. You will have ownership over complex, business-critical integrations while helping establish the technical standards and architecture that support future growth. The role is designed for someone who wants to remain an active engineer today while expanding into broader technical and team leadership over time.

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

• We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees.
• Salaried personnel receive paid time off.
• Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law.
• Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.