Senior Forward-Deployed Data Engineer — Healthcare Lakehouse

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Flexible working hours

Hybrid work options

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Qualified Health is hiring Senior Forward Deployed Engineers for the Data Modernization team. You will own platform-specific builds that move health system data from legacy to AI-ready lakehouses, enabling agentic AI workflows.

As the platform expert on engagements, you will lead ingestion, governance, and data-sharing configurations, while sustaining production environments and building reusable accelerators for faster future work.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or data platform roles at a Senior or Staff level.
• Client-facing maturity — comfortable working on-site at a customer's environment.
• Deep hands-on expertise in at least one platform: Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric.
• Has shipped production data workloads in a regulated environment (HIPAA/HITRUST or similar).
• Strong Python, distributed processing (PySpark), SQL, and modern transformation tools.
• Can own a build as the sole platform expert on an engagement.
• IaC fluency with Terraform and CI/CD discipline (GitHub Actions).

Responsibilities

• Work forward-deployed inside the customer's environment, partnering with their data and IT teams.
• Own platform-specific architecture and build as the technical lead under the Principal SA.
• Design and implement ingestion from EHR and source systems into a medallion lakehouse.
• Build and harden change-data-capture, transformation, and orchestration pipelines.
• Configure governance, access control, and data-sharing patterns for AI-ready data.
• Sustain production environments and develop reusable accelerators/IP.
• Support pre-sales technical discovery and data assessment.
• Ensure environments meet handoff criteria to the Client Integration team.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Data pipelines

Platform ownership

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Tools

Databricks platform tooling

Snowflake tooling

Microsoft Fabric tooling

Job description

Qualified Health is hiring Senior Forward Deployed Engineers for the Data Modernization team. You will own platform-specific builds that move health system data from legacy to AI-ready lakehouses, enabling agentic AI workflows.

As the platform expert on engagements, you will lead ingestion, governance, and data-sharing configurations, while sustaining production environments and building reusable accelerators for faster future work.