Staff Data Platform Engineer - AI, HL7 & Healthcare

Artha; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 212,000 - 409,000; Full time

Job summary

R1 RCM Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform (hl7) to help shape the data platform powering Phare OS and HL7/FHIR workflows. You will collaborate with product and engineering leaders to deliver scalable, compliant healthcare software.

You will mentor juniors, drive architecture decisions, and optimize ETL, big data pipelines, and cloud deployments across Azure/GCP/AWS, ensuring code quality, testability, and performance in a fast-growing healthcare tech environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of software engineering or data engineering experience, including 10+ years in a technical leadership or thought-leadership capacity.
• Advanced experience with Apache Spark, Python, Scala, Databricks, and big-data architecture.
• Hands‑on experience with HL7, FHIR, Epic, clinical data, and healthcare technology environments.
• Extensive experience with at least one major cloud platform, including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services.
• Strong knowledge of web services and integration technologies, including XML, XSD, SOAP, JSON, and REST APIs.
• Experience with modern software engineering practices, including version control, automated testing, CI/CD, Agile development, and automated build and deployment processes.

Responsibilities

• Heavily participate in roadmap definition, working closely with senior product and engineering leaders.
• Evaluate and help shape strategic technology direction and choices.
• Provide thoughtful recommendations in sessions with scrum team members to structure solution source code and implementation approaches —emphasizing the need to optimize code that follows engineering best practices, and maximizes maintainability, testability, and performance.
• Work with product management and business stakeholders to understand software requirements and help estimate epics, features, and stories.
• Script and maintain automated build steps, continuous integration systems, and staging environments.
• Willingly and enthusiastically mentor junior members of the development team.

Skills

Leadership

Apache Spark

Python

Scala

Databricks

HL7 & FHIR

Cloud platforms

Web services

CI/CD & Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Docker

Job description

R1 RCM Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform (hl7) to help shape the data platform powering Phare OS and HL7/FHIR workflows. You will collaborate with product and engineering leaders to deliver scalable, compliant healthcare software.

You will mentor juniors, drive architecture decisions, and optimize ETL, big data pipelines, and cloud deployments across Azure/GCP/AWS, ensuring code quality, testability, and performance in a fast-growing healthcare tech environment.