Senior Forward-Deployed Data Engineer — Healthcare Lakehouse

Qualified Health; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Qualified Health is looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Data Modernization team. This role involves taking health systems from outdated connectivity to modern AI-ready lakehouses, working directly with client teams to build scalable solutions.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in data engineering and offers deep expertise in platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric. Competitive salaries, equity packages, and a commitment to diversity are part of what we offer as a rapidly growing company.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering roles at Senior or Staff IC level.
• Deep expertise in at least one platform: Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric.
• Experience shipping production data workloads in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customer's data and IT teams.
• Own platform-specific architecture and builds as technical lead.
• Design ingestion from EHR systems into a medallion lakehouse.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

Client-facing experience

Infrastructure-as-code

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Qualified Health is looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join the Data Modernization team. This role involves taking health systems from outdated connectivity to modern AI-ready lakehouses, working directly with client teams to build scalable solutions.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in data engineering and offers deep expertise in platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric. Competitive salaries, equity packages, and a commitment to diversity are part of what we offer as a rapidly growing company.