Senior Data & AI Engineer - Healthcare ML & Data

Hospice of the Valley; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages and benefit program

Generous Paid Time Off

Flexible schedules for work/life

Job summary

Hospice of the Valley seeks a Senior Data & AI Engineer to design and operate secure, scalable data platforms across Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric, integrating claims, clinical data, and CMS datasets. You will build ML pipelines for risk stratification, cost forecasting, and quality measures while ensuring HIPAA compliance and robust governance.

Responsibilities include data modeling, ingestion frameworks, lineage, and collaboration with clinicians, actuaries, and analytics teams to drive

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering/analytics.
• 5+ years hands-on with Snowflake (compute, storage, virtual warehouses, tasks, streams, Snowpipe, Time Travel, RBAC, row/column masking).
• 2+ years with Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks, Pipelines).
• Data integration & transformation proficiency: SQL (advanced), dbt or Fabric Dataflows/Power Query M, ADF/Synapse/Fabric Pipelines, Python for ETL/ELT.
• Mapping from CMS data (e.g., Medicare datasets, claims/encounters), X12/EDI, FHIR/HL7, provider and eligibility.
• Experience with structured and unstructured data; NLP pipelines (optional).
• Machine learning: feature engineering, model training/evaluation, deployment; production monitoring.
• Security & compliance: HIPAA, PHI handling, auditing, data residency, BAAs; access control in Snowflake/Fabric.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and optimize data solutions in Snowflake and Fabric.
• Build robust ingestion frameworks for batch and streaming data with lineage and governance.
• Manage data security, privacy, and compliance (HIPAA/PHI).
• Design data models (normalized, dimensional, star, data vault).
• Implement data mappings for structured/unstructured data (claims, eligibility, clinical notes).
• Harmonize healthcare data using FHIR/HL7/C‑CDA, X12/EDI, NCPDP, CMS standards.
• Build ML pipelines for risk stratification, cost/utilization forecasting, QA, care gaps.
• Operationalize models with MLOps (CI/CD, monitoring, drift detection).
• Contribute to architectural roadmaps and documentation.

Skills

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

ML pipelines

MLOps

HIPAA compliance

Data security

Python

Power BI

Tools

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

dbt

Python

Azure ML

Purview

Job description

Hospice of the Valley seeks a Senior Data & AI Engineer to design and operate secure, scalable data platforms across Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric, integrating claims, clinical data, and CMS datasets. You will build ML pipelines for risk stratification, cost forecasting, and quality measures while ensuring HIPAA compliance and robust governance.

Responsibilities include data modeling, ingestion frameworks, lineage, and collaboration with clinicians, actuaries, and analytics teams to drive