Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harnham is recruiting for a rapidly growing healthcare services organization that provides collaborative, interdisciplinary care to residents in long-term care and assisted living facilities. The Senior Data Engineer will lead the greenfield design, development, and optimization of a healthcare data platform supporting operations, advanced analytics, and clinical reporting, while shaping data strategy and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Platform Architecture: Lead the strategy, greenfield design, and rollout of a scalable healthcare data platform generating actionable business and clinical insights
- Pipeline Orchestration: Architect and orchestrate robust ETL/ELT data pipelines sourced via API FHIR and HL7 from CMS, HIEs, EHRs, payers, and labs
- Cloud & Data Optimization: Optimize data models, storage, and query performance utilizing cloud services and data warehousing solutions
- Data Strategy & Leadership: Align data infrastructure with high-level business goals, define project scope, and set technical milestones
- Mentorship: Conduct code reviews, establish best practices, and mentor junior engineers to foster technical growth
- Governance & Security: Establish testing, alerting, code standardization, and robust data governance frameworks compliant with HIPAA and PHI regulatory requirements
Skills
- • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- • Data Warehousing: 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, architecting, and implementing scalable data warehouses
- • AWS Expertise: Strong experience with AWS data services, cloud infrastructure, and pipeline management within AWS
- • Workflow Orchestration: Deep experience using Apache Airflow for workflow scheduling, monitoring, and pipeline management
- • Industry Experience: Prior exposure to a fast-paced, high-growth, or startup healthcare environment
- • Authorization: Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship requirements
- • Hands-on experience with Snowflake , SQL , Python , and dbt
- • Deep understanding of healthcare data standards ( HL7 , FHIR , EHRs , claims, risk adjustment) and administrative workflows
- • Strong grasp of healthcare privacy regulations (HIPAA, PHI handling)
Benefits
- Full-time employment
- 100% Remote Flexibility: Work from anywhere in the continental U.S. (excluding CA).
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