Healthcare Data Architect / Sr. Data Engineer

Particle Health; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Healthcare Data Architect/Senior Data Engineer to join its mission of transforming healthcare through data. In this role, you'll harness diverse datasets to solve complex challenges and improve patient outcomes. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll design scalable data solutions and optimize data pipelines, ensuring the integrity and usability of medical records. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on healthcare access and provider empowerment while working in a flexible, fully remote environment. If you're passionate about data and healthcare, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

95% employer-paid health benefits

Employer-funded 401(k) match

Mental health benefits

Employee equity

14 weeks paid parental leave

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering with a strong background in data architecture.
• Proficiency in building and optimizing data-intensive systems and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize efficient, scalable data pipelines for ingestion and transformation.
• Lead the design and development of a robust data architecture.

Skills

Healthcare data expertise

SQL

Python

Data architecture

Data modeling

Data governance

Data analytics

Critical thinking

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree in Data Science or related field

Tools

Spark

Databricks

Delta Lake

Parquet

Avro

Job description

About Particle

Particle Health is revolutionizing healthcare data analytics and interoperability. Our mission is to unlock the power of medical records in an intelligent platform that focuses health back on the patient.

Through our modern data platform, we enable healthcare innovators—ranging from value-based care providers and payers to digital health companies and health systems—to access standardized, real-time patient data. By bridging fragmented data silos, Particle empowers organizations to tackle critical use cases such as care coordination, risk stratification, patient identity management, and regulatory compliance with ease and precision.

Our solutions of Snapshot, Signal, Navigator, and Workbench address the complex challenges of healthcare data analytics and interoperability, helping our customers transform data into actionable insights, improve patient outcomes, and streamline workflows.

Company Overview

At Particle Health, our mission is to unlock the power of medical records in an intelligent platform that focuses healthcare back on the patient. We do that through connecting our customers to national and state medical record exchanges, which facilitates medical record sharing and interoperability. That also gives us access to arguably some of the best fully longitudinal data on millions of patients. Our energy is then spent organizing and processing that data, making that data useful in different settings. Powered by this data, we are building a data platform offering important clinical insights to our customers. Our customers are Healthcare AI companies building solutions, digital healthcare providers, payers, EHR, & condition-specific platforms.

About the Role

At Particle Health, data is at the core of everything we do. As a Healthcare Data Architect / Senior Data Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in organizing and optimizing our data assets to meet the evolving needs of our customers and the healthcare landscape. With access to diverse datasets like EHR, prescription fills, and provider data, you’ll tackle some of the most complex and impactful challenges in healthcare data today. We are looking for people with significant healthcare data experience for this role.

This role is about more than technical expertise—it’s about curiosity and collaboration. You’ll explore the depths of patient-level data to uncover opportunities and solve problems, asking critical questions that guide us toward delivering transformative insights. From identifying treatment adherence patterns to predicting gaps in care and developing risk scores, your work will have a direct impact on our customers' ability to improve patient outcomes.

Your contributions will shape the foundational components of Particle’s data platform and analytics strategy, driving innovation and quality across our products. You’ll also work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our data capabilities align with business goals, helping us achieve our mission of making healthcare smarter and more patient-focused.

What You’ll Do:

As a Healthcare Data Architect / Sr Data Engineer your role will have three core focus areas:

1. Data Engineering (75%)
   1. Build and optimize efficient, scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and enrichment, powering Particle Health’s Platform.
   2. Monitor, troubleshoot data issues, and ensure data availability, reliability, and scalability for the SaaS product.
   3. Work with Product and Engineering leadership to develop product features and analyses that enhance our understanding of the data and its applications.
   4. Implement data standards, policies, procedures, and best practices for data management, data quality, data security, and data privacy, ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations and standards.
   5. Help design and evolve Particle’s data infrastructure to reduce toil, improve operational efficiency and reduce processing cost.
2. Data Quality & Architecture (25%)
   1. Lead the design and development of a robust data architecture that guides data modeling, ingestion, processing, and data quality enabling data product development at Particle Health.
   2. Design and develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models ensuring they meet the needs of our platform and customers and accounting for the data domains, structures, relationships, quality, security, and data privacy of the product.
   3. Help address gaps in our data, identifying solutions, and improving reliability to establish a competitive edge and firmly cementing our data quality as a key differentiator of our platform.
3. Collaborate Across Teams
   1. Work cross-functionally with Data Engineering, Data Science, Product, and Engineering teams to align on architectural needs and enable the development of new features and analyses.
   2. Partner with leadership to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions that provide insight and impact.

What We Seek:

• Extensive experience and domain expertise with Healthcare data (especially EHR - CCDA, FHIR and / or Claims data, ADTs), including clinical applications and / or risk stratification.
• Proven proficiency in building and optimizing data-intensive systems and pipelines.
• Strong technical experience - we use SQL & Python, specifically Spark.
• Deep curiosity and critical thinking to explore and break down complex data sets to isolate key outcomes.
• Effective communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Analytical thinking and interest in using metrics to improve decision-making and influence behavior.
• Comfort with ambiguity.
• A lifelong learner who has the demonstrated ability to pick up new skills quickly.

What you bring to the Table:

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering with a strong background in data architecture and data modeling.
• 5+ years of experience in data architecture, data modeling, data governance, and data analytics, preferably for SaaS products or cloud-based applications.
• 5+ years of experience with healthcare data & formats (e.g. CCDA, FHIR, HL7v2, Claims, ADTs, Tuva Schema, OMOP).
• Strong knowledge and skills in data modeling tools and languages and in designing data models for SaaS products or cloud-based applications.
• Deep Expertise in Python, with a deep understanding and hands-on experience in Spark for designing, optimizing, and scaling large-scale data processing pipelines, and proficiency in at least one SQL dialect.
• Experience with data lake technologies (e.g., Databricks, Delta Lake), data storage formats (Parquet, Avro), query engines (such as Photon, Spark SQL), and both real-time streaming and batch processing, or equivalent technologies and frameworks.

Why Particle Health?

• Purposeful Work: Contribute to projects that directly improve healthcare access, empower providers, and enhance patient outcomes.
• Collaborative Culture: Thrive in a mission-driven, curiosity-fueled environment where ownership and bold ideas are celebrated.
• Flexibility & Balance: Enjoy unlimited PTO and a flexible, fully remote work setup, giving you control over your schedule.
• Comprehensive Benefits:
• ~ 95% employer-paid health benefits for you and generous coverage for your family.
• Employer-funded 401(k) match to help you build a secure future.
• Mental health benefits to support your well-being.
• Invest in Your Future: Receive employee equity, ensuring you share in the company’s success.
• Family Support: Access 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave, so you can focus on what matters most.

At Particle Health, your contributions don’t just impact the company—they shape the future of healthcare. Join us, and let’s make a difference together!

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At Particle Health, we believe diversity is a strength that drives and fuels our mission to transform healthcare. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive, supportive environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome and celebrate individuals of all backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. Our commitment to diversity reflects our core values—integrity, curiosity, boldness, ownership, and persistence—and our belief that our differences make us stronger as a team and a company.

For more info about Particle and our team, check out the resources & links included.
https://www.particlehealth.com/
https://builtin.com/awards/new-york-city/2024/best-startup-places-to-work#particle-health