Principal Analyst, Data Integration

H1; New York (NY); On-site; USD 145,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Wellness holidays

Retirement options

Donations stipends

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

H1 is seeking a Principal Analyst, Data Integration, to own the end-to-end onboarding of new data sources into the platform. You will define how sources map to H1's schemas, collaborate across Data & Research, Engineering, and Product, and translate client needs into concrete data specifications.

The role requires senior-level data experience in healthcare or life sciences, strong documentation, and the ability to communicate trade-offs to technical and client-facing teams.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in data-focused roles within healthcare data or life sciences.
• End-to-end ownership of data integrations from scoping to handoff.
• Healthcare or life sciences domain context; ability to ramp on new datasets quarterly.
• Analytical fluency to assess data quality; hands-on with VBA, R, or SPSS.
• Familiarity with data lake architectures and normalization to a product-ready state.
• Experience gathering requirements from client-facing stakeholders and translating to data/product specs.

Responsibilities

• Lead evaluation of new data sources from scratch, assessing schema, coverage, freshness, legal constraints, and fit against product needs.
• Own field mapping from source to H1 layers, producing data dictionaries and definitions.
• Define ingestion requirements, entity resolution rules, and refresh cadences for new sources.
• Translate client requirements into integration specifications; voice of what a new source can deliver.
• Oversee end-to-end source work: scoping, QA, entity matching, product launch.
• Work with Insights to develop new taxonomies and QA for novel data types.
• Define acceptance criteria and lead QA validation including field fill rates and comparisons.
• Investigate and resolve data quality issues post-integration; coordinate with teams as needed.
• Hand off to the maintaining team with mapping documentation; focus on onboarding.
• Produce and maintain documentation for scoping, mapping specs, and post-mortems.

Skills

Data integration

Healthcare data domain

Analytical fluency

Documentation

Tools

VBA

R

SPSS

SQL

AWS Athena

S3

Glue

Jira

Monday

Job description

At H1, we believe access to the best healthcare information is a basic human right. Our mission is to provide a platform that can optimally inform every doctor interaction globally. This promotes health equity and builds needed trust in healthcare systems. To accomplish this our teams harness the power of data and AI-technology to unlock groundbreaking medical insights and convert those insights into action that result in optimal patient outcomes and accelerates an equitable and inclusive drug development lifecycle. Visith1.coto learn more about us.

As part of H1’s hiring process, all candidates are required to participate in an in-person final interview. Depending on your location, this may require travel.

The Data & Research team is responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of H1's data — from source acquisition and onboarding through normalization, entity resolution, and product delivery. Working closely with Engineering, Product, and client-facing teams, this group ensures that every data source H1 adds is evaluated rigorously, integrated accurately, and delivered in a way that creates real value for the healthcare and life sciences organizations that rely on our platform.

WHAT YOU'LL DO AT H1

As a Principal Analyst, Data Integration, you will own the end-to-end process of evaluating, scoping, and onboarding new data sources into H1's platform. This is a senior IC role at the intersection of data, engineering, and product — the connective tissue between raw data acquisition and what ultimately ships to clients. You will work across Data & Research, Engineering, and Product to define what a new source is, how it maps to H1's schemas, what it can realistically deliver, and what it can't. You will also work directly with client-facing teams to gather requirements before integration decisions are made, translating commercial needs into data specs and data constraints back into product expectations.

You will:

• Lead structured evaluation of new data sources from scratch — assessing schema, coverage, freshness, legal constraints, and fit against H1's product needs before any engineering work begins
• Own field mapping from source to H1's bronze/silver/gold layers, producing data dictionaries, entity definitions, and structural guidance for downstream teams
• Partner with engineering and Data Lake to define ingestion requirements, entity resolution rules, and refresh cadences for new sources
• Gather requirements from client-facing teams and translate them into integration specifications; serve as the authoritative voice on what a new source can and cannot deliver before product commitments are made
• Shepherd each source end-to-end: scoping → QA → entity matching → product launch, including product QA and communicating source capabilities and limitations to product and enablement partners
• Work with the Insights team to develop new taxonomies and QA mechanisms for novel data types
• Define acceptance criteria and lead QA validation including field-level fill rates, count comparisons, and cycle-over-cycle anomaly detection
• Investigate and resolve data quality issues post-integration, coordinating with DART and engineering as needed
• Hand off to the maintaining team with complete mapping documentation; you own onboarding, not ongoing maintenance
• Produce and maintain documentation other people actually use — across scoping assessments, field mapping specs, and post-mortems

ABOUT YOU

You are a senior data professional who has personally owned the full lifecycle of a data integration — not just contributed to one. You are comfortable working across ambiguous, novel data structures and can ramp quickly on new source types each quarter. You operate with strong judgment about where integration risk lives, and you communicate clearly to both technical partners and client-facing stakeholders about what data can and cannot do.

REQUIREMENTS

• 8–12+ years in data-focused roles at healthcare data companies, pharma/biotech data vendors, health IT firms, or equivalent
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of data integrations built from scratch — scoping, field mapping, QA, and handoff — with documentation to show for it
• Healthcare or life sciences domain context required; ability to ramp on new datasets and source types each quarter without needing deep subject matter expertise upfront
• Analytical fluency to assess data quality; hands-on experience with tools such as VBA, R, or SPSS; SQL a plus but not a primary requirement
• Familiarity with data lake architectures (bronze/silver/gold or equivalent) and how raw data moves through normalization and entity resolution to a product-ready state
• Experience gathering requirements from client-facing stakeholders and translating them into data or product specifications
• Experience at a B2B data company where you understood how external clients consumed your data and where client retention drove decisions
• AWS infrastructure familiarity (Athena, S3, Glue) at a query and inspection level preferred
• Comfort working in Jira or Monday in a ticket-based workflow
• Exceptional written communication — your documentation is legible, maintained, and actually used

COMPENSATION

This rolepays $145,000 to $170,000 per year, based on experience, in addition to equity.

Anticipated role close date: 08/25/2026

H1 OFFERS

• Full suite of health insurance options, in addition to generous paid time off
• Pre-planned company-wide wellness holidays
• Retirement options
• Health & charitable donation stipends
• Impactful Business Resource Groups
• The opportunity to work with leading biotech and life sciences companies in an innovative industry with a mission to improve healthcare around the globe

H1 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with equal opportunity for all applicants and teammates. Our goal is to recruit the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex (including pregnancy), age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

H1 is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to your recruiter once you've begun the interview process. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.