Senior Data Engineer – Healthcare Technology

Senior Data Engineer – Healthcare Technology

Elevated Hires is recruiting a Senior Data Engineer to build and scale a modern healthcare data platform supporting analytics, care coordination, and value-based care. This position is ideal for an experienced engineer who can independently make high-impact architectural decisions and develop secure, reliable data systems.

Candidates located in Pittsburgh are preferred; qualified U.S.-based remote candidates will also be considered.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, secure, and highly reliable data systems.

• Build and maintain production-grade pipelines that ingest, process, and enrich large volumes of healthcare data.

• Establish data-quality, governance, monitoring, and validation standards.

• Optimize system performance through query tuning, indexing, partitioning, and related strategies.

• Design and deploy cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Protect sensitive healthcare information and maintain HIPAA and HITRUST compliance.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, and clinical operations teams.

• Contribute to system architecture, CI/CD, test automation, and DevOps standards.

• Simplify complex technical problems and make independent architectural decisions.

Required Qualifications

• At least five years of dedicated data engineering experience.

• Hands-on experience with Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform, including ingestion frameworks, connectors, data models, and interoperability workflows.

• Expert SQL skills and advanced proficiency in Python or Scala.

• Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift.

• Knowledge of data-lake technologies such as Amazon S3 and Delta Lake.

• Experience with Apache Spark or Dask.

• Strong knowledge of AWS services, including S3, Lambda, and RDS.

• Experience with Apache Airflow or AWS Step Functions.

• Understanding of healthcare data, HIPAA, HITRUST, and FHIR.

• Strong background in system architecture, scalability, CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps.

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Legal authorization to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.