Remote Healthcare Data Engineer — Pipelines & Quality

VetsEZ; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; 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 role supporting a statewide Health Information Exchange and the development of a Health Data Utility. You will design and operate healthcare data pipelines, manage terminology mapping, validation, and data quality remediation.

The position requires a BS in a related field and 5+ years building production data pipelines in healthcare or regulated data environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, health informatics, information systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience across the responsibilities listed.
• Experience building production data pipelines and healthcare or 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 standard vocabularies such as LOINC, SNOMED CT, ICD-10-CM, or RxNorm.
• Ability to implement automated quality checks and resolve data discrepancies with 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

Data pipelines

Terminology mapping

FHIR

LOINC

SNOMED CT

RxNorm

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Bachelor's degree in data engineering

Bachelor's degree in health informatics

Bachelor's degree in information systems

Tools

Azure data services

Job description

VetsEZ is seeking a Data Engineer for a remote role supporting a statewide Health Information Exchange and the development of a Health Data Utility. You will design and operate healthcare data pipelines, manage terminology mapping, validation, and data quality remediation.

The position requires a BS in a related field and 5+ years building production data pipelines in healthcare or regulated data environments.