- Salary Range: $120-$130K
Job Summary
A Lead Data Engineer is a senior-level technical leader responsible for designing, building, and optimizing scalable data pipelines and architecture. This role blends deep technical expertise and healthcare experience to provide leadership and strategic alignment to Absolute Care’s business goals.
The Lead Data Engineer will work on identifying the right solution for both existing and new requirements by enhancing / converting existing systems or creating newer solutions.
AbsoluteCare is looking for candidate willing to learn, develop skills and grow with the company.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain robust data infrastructure, including ETL pipelines, data lakes, and data warehouses.
- Lead the development and optimization of data pipelines for healthcare payer and clinical data.
- Ensure data quality, governance, and compliance with HIPAA and other healthcare regulations.
- Oversee system interoperability and data replication frameworks, including API integrations and cloud migration strategies.
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level data engineers.
- Assign and manage responsibilities across multiple initiatives (e.g., HealthCare data feeds, HIE feeds, data pipelines, member hub, AI initiatives).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Clinical, Risk Adjustment, and Quality to align data solutions with care delivery models.
- Support predictive analytics, risk stratification, and member impactability modeling.
- Drive automation and standardization of data processes to improve operational efficiency.
- Contribute to roadmap planning for data warehouse modernization and cloud enablement
- Interpret healthcare data to translate requirements into IT solutions.
- Relate disparate data sets to extract actionable insights.
- Support business needs through the development of ad-hoc and standardized reports as requested by the executive leadership team, as well as internal and external customers.
- Troubleshoot and align the reporting needs of end users to available data sets.
- Maintain the security and privacy of all information that is owned by AbsoluteCare or maintained on behalf of the company’s patients, employees, and business partners.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, information technology, statistics, mathematics, health sciences, or related field or equivalent work experience required.
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with at least 1-2 years in leadership role preferred
- Preferred 3+ years of health care data experience with deep understanding of healthcare data structures like Claims, Eligibility, HIEs, EHRs)
- Proficient in SQL, Python, ETL tools, Orchestration Tools within Microsoft stack
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Excel required.
- Strong ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Highly organized with strong documentation skills.
- Effective communicator with both technical teams and executive leadership.
- Skilled in documentation, stakeholder engagement, and cross-departmental coordination.
- Capable of successfully balancing numerous and competing priorities.
- Passion for data and the act of transforming data to achieve results.
Working conditions
This job operates in a professional office environment and/or in a remote capacity. This role routinely uses general office equipment.
Physical requirements
- Ability to communicate clearly and exchange accurate information constantly.
- Ability to remain stationary for long periods of time.
- Constantly operates computer, keyboard, copy and fax machine, phone, and other general office equipment.
- Ability to occasionally move objects up to 20 lbs.
Direct reports
None.
Why Work at AbsoluteCare?
At AbsoluteCare, we serve the most vulnerable individuals in America. These are our neighbors, people who are at higher risk for disease or who have multiple, complex, chronic illnesses. Often, they deal with an unequal healthcare system and wind up seeking basic care from emergency rooms. We take these patients out of those spaces and turn them into members: people who are entitled to some of the best, most focused care this country has to offer.
We call this “care beyond medicine.” We have turned the doctor’s office into a comprehensive care center. Here, we surround our members with a core care team of doctors, nurses, social workers, and medical assistants who have the time and skills to get to know our members’ needs. We make the most important services available to our members under one roof. This includes a pharmacy, X-rays, a blood lab, nutrition services, urgent care, and much more.
We don’t stop at our four walls. We engage members in the communities where we all live to find the people who need us most. Through these community care teams, we remove the barriers to healthcare that so many people face daily. And it works.
Our unique care is guided by our core values of accountability, caring, trust, and teamwork. We call it ACT2.
AbsoluteCare, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or policy.Bachelor's degree in business, IT, statistics, math, health sciences or related field; 5+ years data engineering experience; 1-2 years leadership preferred; 3+ years healthcare data preferred; proficient in SQL, Python, ETL tools, Microsoft stack; intermediate Excel required.
Key Responsibilities
- architecting data pipelines
- optimizing data infrastructure
- mentoring engineers
Skills & Tools
SQL, Python, ETL tools, Microsoft Excel
Job Details
- Category: Data and Analytics
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — United States
- Salary: USD 120,000 – 130,000 / year
- Languages: English
About AbsoluteCare
A healthcare provider delivering comprehensive care to vulnerable individuals through integrated care teams. — Industry: Healthcare