Remote Azure Data Engineer for Healthcare Claims Analytics

Fractal; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid holidays and Parental Leave

Parental Leave

Job summary

Fractal Analytics is seeking an experienced Azure Data Engineer to lead design and implementation of scalable, compliant healthcare data platforms on Microsoft Azure. Strong emphasis on Databricks, SQL, and Python/PySpark, with collaboration across stakeholders and analytics teams.

The role focuses on modernization of healthcare data systems, ingestion pipelines, and Lakehouse architectures, ensuring governance and regulatory compliance across enterprise-scale projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering/IS or related field.
• 10+ years IT experience with strong focus on Data Engineering and Cloud Architecture.
• 5+ years of hands-on Azure Data Platform experience.
• Strong experience in Healthcare domain implementations.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-scale healthcare data platforms on Microsoft Azure.
• Architect scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-native data solutions.
• Define end-to-end architecture for ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, and analytics.
• Lead modernization and migration of legacy healthcare data systems to Azure.
• Ensure architecture aligns with healthcare compliance and governance standards.
• Design and implement large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Build batch and real-time data processing solutions using Azure Databricks.
• Develop scalable data ingestion frameworks for structured and unstructured healthcare data.
• Optimize performance and scalability of Azure data platforms.
• Implement Lakehouse/Data Lake architectures using Azure services.
• Work with healthcare stakeholders to understand clinical, operational, and analytical data requirements.
• Support healthcare data integration initiatives involving EMR/EHR systems, claims, patient, provider, and operational data.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations and data privacy standards.
• Support healthcare analytics, reporting, and interoperability initiatives.

Skills

SQL

Python/PySpark

ETL/ELT pipelines

Delta Lake

Lakehouse

Batch & streaming

Data modeling

Azure

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering/IS

10+ years IT experience

5+ years Azure Data Platform experience

Healthcare domain experience

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Platform

Job description

Fractal Analytics is seeking an experienced Azure Data Engineer to lead design and implementation of scalable, compliant healthcare data platforms on Microsoft Azure. Strong emphasis on Databricks, SQL, and Python/PySpark, with collaboration across stakeholders and analytics teams.

The role focuses on modernization of healthcare data systems, ingestion pipelines, and Lakehouse architectures, ensuring governance and regulatory compliance across enterprise-scale projects.