Remote Lead Data Engineer — Healthcare Data Migrations

Mass Digital Health; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Commuter support

Employee assistance program

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Dog-friendly offices

Job summary

athenahealth is seeking a Lead Data Engineer for Data Imports and Migrations to move healthcare data into athenahealth systems with accuracy and care. This remote-US role designs and supports ETL, migration, transformation, and export processes to help practices transition from legacy EHRs to athenahealth.

You will collaborate with sales, product, and operations to ensure reliable data movement and validation, while leveraging AI to boost productivity under human review.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, info systems, engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years in data engineering, ETL, or data migration.
• Experience with ETL, SQL, and Python.
• Familiarity with HL7 and FHIR interoperability standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support ETL workflows that extract, transform, and load data from legacy EHRs systems into athenahealth environments.
• Write and maintain functions used for data analysis, validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting.
• Build Python and SQL scripts and utilities that support import, migration, and automation activities.
• Partner with internal teams to define source-to-target mappings, business rules, and migration requirements.
• Review inbound and outbound data to identify gaps, defects, and transformation issues.
• Support interoperability workflows using HL7 and FHIR standards.
• Perform EHI export-related tasks and validate output for completeness and accuracy.
• Investigate data issues, document findings, and help drive resolution across teams.
• Maintain technical documentation for processes, dependencies, and validation steps.
• Use AI to improve productivity in data analysis and development tasks, while applying human review to confirm accuracy and align outputs to the needs of the work.

Skills

ETL

SQL

Python

HL7

FHIR

Data migration

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Job description

athenahealth is seeking a Lead Data Engineer for Data Imports and Migrations to move healthcare data into athenahealth systems with accuracy and care. This remote-US role designs and supports ETL, migration, transformation, and export processes to help practices transition from legacy EHRs to athenahealth.

You will collaborate with sales, product, and operations to ensure reliable data movement and validation, while leveraging AI to boost productivity under human review.