Senior Data Engineer - Healthcare Data Platform (Remote)

Elevated Hires

United States

On-site

USD 135,000 - 175,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Learning stipends

Professional development support

Job summary

Elevated Hires is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and scale a modern healthcare data platform for analytics, care coordination, and value-based care. You will architect secure, reliable pipelines and drive data governance across teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data engineering, hands-on experience with Innovaccer Data Activation Platform, strong SQL and Python/Scala, and AWS data services. Remote US work is welcome; Pittsburgh is preferred.

Qualifications

At least five years of dedicated data engineering experience.
\u200bHands-on experience with Innovaccer's Data Activation Platform, including ingestion frameworks, connectors, data models, and interoperability workflows.
\u200bExpert SQL skills and advanced proficiency in Python or Scala.
\u200bExperience with Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift.
\u200bKnowledge of data-lake technologies such as Amazon S3 and Delta Lake.
\u200bExperience with Apache Spark or Dask.
\u200bStrong knowledge of AWS services, including S3, Lambda, and RDS.
\u200bExperience with Apache Airflow or AWS Step Functions.
\u200bUnderstanding of healthcare data, HIPAA, HITRUST, and FHIR.
\u200bStrong background in system architecture, scalability, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps.
\u200bAbility to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Architect scalable, secure, and highly reliable data systems.
Build and maintain production-grade pipelines that ingest, process, and enrich large volumes of healthcare data.
Establish data-quality, governance, monitoring, and validation standards.
Optimize system performance through query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and related strategies.
Design and deploy cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices.
Protect sensitive healthcare information and maintain HIPAA and HITRUST compliance.
Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, and clinical operations teams.
Contribute to system architecture, CI/CD, test automation, and DevOps standards.
Simplify complex technical problems and make independent architectural decisions.