Senior Healthcare Data Integration Lead

Kforce Inc; Norwalk (CT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

HSA/FSA benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Kforce is seeking a senior Healthcare Data Integration Engineering Lead in Norwalk, CT to design, build, and scale critical healthcare data integrations with external partners and internal systems. You will stay close to code while guiding technical direction and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes building production-ready integrations, overseeing data quality, and leading engineering efforts in a fast-paced healthcare technology environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, integration engineering, or backend development in healthcare technology.
• Direct healthcare industry experience, ideally within health insurance, claims processing, or TPAs.
• Strong understanding of the medical claims lifecycle including processing, adjudication, payments, and reconciliation.
• Hands-on experience designing, coding, and supporting production integrations.
• Experience with Python or similar languages, SQL, APIs, and AWS.
• Experience with flat-file and API-based data exchange.
• Experience with data transformation, validation, and integration contracts.
• Reliability-focused with strong incident monitoring and troubleshooting abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support integrations with healthcare payers, TPAs, and provider organizations.
• Develop production solutions for exchanging healthcare data via APIs and file formats (CSV, JSON, XML).
• Create ingestion and transformation workflows to convert partner data into internal structures.
• Own integration specifications, schemas, mappings, validation rules, and technical docs.
• Support claims and payment data flows including reconciliation and downstream processing.
• Develop validation, duplicate detection, error handling, and recovery capabilities.
• Monitor production integrations and troubleshoot data quality issues.
• Collaborate with external teams to launch new integrations and resolve issues.

Skills

Python

SQL

APIs

AWS

Data integration

Healthcare tech

Communication

Technical leadership

Tools

S3

Lambda

SQS

EventBridge

Glue

Job description

Kforce is seeking a senior Healthcare Data Integration Engineering Lead in Norwalk, CT to design, build, and scale critical healthcare data integrations with external partners and internal systems. You will stay close to code while guiding technical direction and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes building production-ready integrations, overseeing data quality, and leading engineering efforts in a fast-paced healthcare technology environment.