Staff Data Engineer - Remote Healthcare Data Platform Lead

NEPSE Trading; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Interwell Health seeks a Staff Data Engineer to shape, scale, and govern its modern data ecosystem. You’ll blend architecture with hands-on engineering to deliver high-quality data products powering clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.

Preferred experience with Databricks, Python, dbt, and Microsoft Fabric, and HIPAA-compliant handling of PHI. You’ll lead cross-functional partnerships and mentor engineers while advancing a cloud-native lakehouse platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering.
• 2+ years operating in a senior or staff level engineering role.
• Deep hands-on proficiency with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, dbt, and Python.
• Proven ability to design and operate largescale cloud data platforms (Azure preferred).
• Hands on experience with Data Engineering, Data Factory, Lakehouse, OneLake.
• Advanced data platform architecture and Lakehouse design expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to design modular, extensible frameworks and guide the long-term evolution of enterprise data platforms.
• Strong command of distributed data processing and cloud native engineering.
• Experience working in HIPAA regulated environments and handling PHI.
• Healthcare data fluency, including regulated data handling and compliance.
• Technical leadership, mentorship, and influence across teams.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and clinical stakeholders.
• Experience with platform reliability, CI/CD for data pipelines, and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Strategy Design and evolve a scalable, secure, cloud-native lakehouse platform leveraging Databricks, Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Factory), and dbt.
• Define modeling patterns, governance frameworks, and engineering best practices across the data lifecycle.
• Lead design reviews and guide teams in adopting scalable architectural patterns.
• Drive long-term platform strategy and evaluate emerging technologies.
• Hands-on Engineering Design and implement batch and streaming data pipelines for healthcare data sources (EHR, claims, HL7/FHIR, APIs, flat files, databases)
• Develop modular ingestion, quality, lineage, metadata, and observability frameworks that scale across domains.
• Produce clean, analytics-ready datasets and data models for BI, analytics, and machine learning workloads.
• Implement HIPAA-aligned access patterns and secure handling of PHI.
• Architect Databricks workloads (clusters, jobs, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake) for reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Integrate Databricks and Microsoft Fabric with Azure services and enterprise systems.
• Leadership & Collaboration Partner with product managers, data scientists, analysts, clinicians, and business stakeholders to translate healthcare data needs into scalable solutions.
• Lead Cross functional initiatives that modernize and unify the organization’s data ecosystem.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; elevate team capability through technical coaching and standards.
• Drive roadmap planning, platform evolution, and long-term data strategy.
• Champion engineering excellence, reliability practices, documentation quality, and governance.

Job description

Interwell Health seeks a Staff Data Engineer to shape, scale, and govern its modern data ecosystem. You’ll blend architecture with hands-on engineering to deliver high-quality data products powering clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.

Preferred experience with Databricks, Python, dbt, and Microsoft Fabric, and HIPAA-compliant handling of PHI. You’ll lead cross-functional partnerships and mentor engineers while advancing a cloud-native lakehouse platform.