Healthcare AI Data & Deployment Director

Qualified Health; United States; On-site; USD 185,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Flexible hours

Health benefits

Job summary

Qualified Health is seeking a Director of Forward Deployed Engineering to own end-to-end data relationships with major health systems. In this high-ownership role, you will lead a pod of Forward Deployed Engineers who design, build, and operate data infrastructure powering AI-driven clinical and operational workflows.

You will ensure delivery quality, partner satisfaction, and the career growth of every engineer in your team, while leveraging AI-assisted development practices to accelerate

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a data engineer or engineering leader, with experience building production data pipelines, leading technical teams, and owning client relationships end-to-end.
• Strong expertise in Epic Clarity/Caboodle data models and clinical tables powering healthcare AI.
• Proficiency with Databricks (PySpark, Delta Lake), SQL Server, and Azure cloud services (ADLS, Key Vault, ADF).
• Experience with FHIR/HL7 healthcare interoperability standards and data transformation patterns.
• Executive-level client-facing communication—present data architecture decisions to health system CTOs and CMIOs, and scope workflows.
• Consultant mindset: ability to earn partner trust quickly and deliver high-quality outcomes under tight timelines.
• Data quality obsession: building validation frameworks and monitoring to catch problems early.
• Ownership mentality: full accountability for team delivery and quality from scoping to production.
• Critical thinking: evaluate options, anticipate risks, and decide independently.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end data integration for health system partners—from onboarding to live production operations with delivery timelines and partner satisfaction.
• Lead a pod of Forward Deployed Engineers, mentoring while meeting tight partner timelines (initial rollout<90 days).
• Serve as primary technical relationship owner for partners’ data and IT teams at CTO/CMIO level, communicating complex decisions clearly.
• Design and build data pipelines that ingest Epic Clarity data, transform with FHIR, and deliver AI-ready datasets via Delta Lake.
• Collaborate with Product, AI Engineering and Data Science to scope new data requirements and support prototyping.
• Drive continuous improvement of integration patterns, tooling, and standards; build reusable components.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Epic Clarity/Caboodle

Databricks PySpark

Azure cloud services

FHIR/HL7

Executive communication

Client relationship management

Data quality & monitoring

Ownership mindset

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or related technical field

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Delta Lake

Python

FHIR

Job description

Qualified Health is seeking a Director of Forward Deployed Engineering to own end-to-end data relationships with major health systems. In this high-ownership role, you will lead a pod of Forward Deployed Engineers who design, build, and operate data infrastructure powering AI-driven clinical and operational workflows.

You will ensure delivery quality, partner satisfaction, and the career growth of every engineer in your team, while leveraging AI-assisted development practices to accelerate