Senior Data Engineer, Healthcare Claims (Remote, US)

Protera Health; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Protera Health is seeking a Data Engineer, Healthcare Claims for a 3-6 month contract engagement with potential for full-time extension focused on building the claims data infrastructure that supports our medical economics, actuarial analysis, client reporting, and value-based care programs.

Candidates must have significant hands‑on experience transforming raw health plan medical claims data and enrollment files into reliable, normalized datasets that Protera can use to evaluate healthcare

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Health Informatics, Information Systems or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in healthcare claims data engineering supporting medical economics and actuarial departments.
• Experience with BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Storage, PostgreSQL, and Terraform.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience designing analytical data models for large healthcare datasets.
• Ability to translate actuarial and financial requirements into production-ready technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build reliable processes for ingesting and validating historical and incremental medical and pharmacy claims and enrollment files.
• Design a standardized claims data model that supports multiple health plans and partner integrations.
• Translate actuarial requirements into scalable datasets and reporting logic.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and explain complex methodologies to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Claims adjudication

Healthcare data integration

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Health Informatics, Information Systems or a related technical discipline

Tools

BigQuery

Google Cloud Platform

PostgreSQL

Terraform

Job description

Protera Health is seeking a Data Engineer, Healthcare Claims for a 3-6 month contract engagement with potential for full-time extension focused on building the claims data infrastructure that supports our medical economics, actuarial analysis, client reporting, and value-based care programs.

Candidates must have significant hands‑on experience transforming raw health plan medical claims data and enrollment files into reliable, normalized datasets that Protera can use to evaluate healthcare