Remote Health Data Engineer: Pipelines & Quality

Veterans EZ Info Inc; Jackson (MS); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

401k with Employer Match

PTO + Federal Holidays

Corporate Laptop

Training opportunities

Remote Opportunity

Job summary

VetsEZ is seeking a Data Engineer for a remote opportunity supporting the implementation and operation of a statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) and the development of a Health Data Utility (HDU). This role will build healthcare data pipelines while owning terminology mapping, validation, and data quality remediation.

This is a remote position and candidates must reside within the continental United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, health informatics, information systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience across the responsibilities outlined above.
• Experience building production data pipelines and healthcare or comparable regulated data solutions.
• Strong SQL, data modeling, transformation, and pipeline troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with clinical terminology mapping, reference data, and healthcare data validation.
• Knowledge of vocabularies such as LOINC, SNOMED CT, ICD-10-CM, or RxNorm.
• Ability to implement automated quality checks and resolve data discrepancies with clinical and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data ingestion, transformation, aggregation, and warehouse pipelines.
• Map source clinical codes and local terminology to standard vocabularies and reference data.
• Implement validation, reconciliation, and data quality monitoring within engineering workflows.
• Investigate discrepancies and coordinate remediation with providers, clinical analysts, and integration teams.
• Optimize pipeline performance, reliability, recoverability, and secure handling of sensitive health data.
• Document lineage, terminology mappings, quality rules, and operational procedures for analytics-ready datasets.
• Take on additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support team objectives and ensure the success of the project.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Transformation

Pipeline troubleshooting

Clinical terminology mapping

Reference data

Healthcare data validation

LOINC

SNOMED CT

ICD-10-CM

RxNorm

Automated quality checks

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, health informatics, information systems, or related field

Tools

Azure data services

Python

Job description

VetsEZ is seeking a Data Engineer for a remote opportunity supporting the implementation and operation of a statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) and the development of a Health Data Utility (HDU). This role will build healthcare data pipelines while owning terminology mapping, validation, and data quality remediation.

This is a remote position and candidates must reside within the continental United States.