Senior Data Migrations Lead — Remote Healthcare ETL HL7/FHIR

Athenahealth; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

athenahealth is seeking a Director, Data Imports & Migrations to lead a team of data engineers responsible for ETL workflows, data migration, validation, and reconciliation as practices move from legacy EHR environments to athenahealth.

You will partner with Sales, Product, Implementation, Operations, and Engineering to guide technical strategy, improve delivery reliability, ensure high data quality, and oversee HL7/FHIR-based interoperability, EHI export, and automated tooling in a remote US

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL, data migration, or related technical discipline.
• 2+ years of experience leading engineers, mentoring technical staff, or managing technical projects/teams.
• Experience with ETL, SQL, and Python.
• Familiarity with HL7 and FHIR interoperability standards.
• Experience supporting data imports, conversions, migrations, or similar data movement work.
• Experience working with healthcare data, healthcare technology, or implementation-focused teams preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data, identify issues, and communicate technical results clearly.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, cross-functional environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of data engineers responsible for ETL workflows that extract, transform, and load data from source systems into athenahealth environments.
• Provide technical direction for Python-based tools, utilities, and automation used to support import, migration, validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting activities.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to define source-to-target mappings, business rules, migration requirements, and technical approach.
• Review inbound and outbound data flows toidentifygaps, defects, transformation issues, and opportunities for improvement.
• Oversee interoperability workflows using HL7 and FHIR standards and ensure data movement approaches align with technical and business requirements.
• Support EHI export-related activities and ensure output is complete, accurate, and compliant with expectations.
• Investigate complex data issues, help remove blockers, and drive resolution across cross-functional teams.
• Establish andmaintaintechnical documentation for processes, dependencies, standards, validation steps, and operational procedures.
• Use AI to improve team productivity in data analysis and development tasks while ensuring human review is used tovalidateaccuracy and appropriateness of outputs.
• Coach, mentor, and support team members through technical guidance, performance feedback, and career development.

Skills

ETL workflows

Python

Data quality

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

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

Tools

HL7

FHIR

Job description

athenahealth is seeking a Director, Data Imports & Migrations to lead a team of data engineers responsible for ETL workflows, data migration, validation, and reconciliation as practices move from legacy EHR environments to athenahealth.

You will partner with Sales, Product, Implementation, Operations, and Engineering to guide technical strategy, improve delivery reliability, ensure high data quality, and oversee HL7/FHIR-based interoperability, EHI export, and automated tooling in a remote US