Lead Data Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the enterprise data architecture supporting operational, analytical, and AI workloads
• Design scalable data platforms for transactional databases, analytical data warehouses/lakehouses, and AI/ML data pipelines
• Define data models, integration standards, metadata management, and data lifecycle strategies
• Establish best practices for data engineering, architecture, performance optimization, scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies and architectural improvements
• Design, develop, and optimize robust ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data
• Build reliable batch and real-time data integration pipelines from EHRs, Practice Management Systems, APIs, flat files, and third-party healthcare applications
• Develop and optimize workflows using tools such as Apache NiFi or equivalent orchestration platforms
• Ensure high data quality, integrity, consistency, lineage, and observability across all data platforms
• Support relational, NoSQL, and distributed data platforms
• Design and maintain data platforms supporting Business Intelligence, advanced analytics, and machine learning workloads
• Build data pipelines that enable AI/ML model training, feature engineering, vector databases, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and LLM/SLM applications
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and AI Engineers to operationalize ML models and AI solutions
• Support MLOps and data versioning best practices

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Qualifications/Criteria

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Data Architecture.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working with US Healthcare data, preferably Revenue Cycle Management (RCM), Claims, EHR, or Healthcare Analytics.
• Equivalent practical experience with demonstrated technical leadership will also be considered.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale data architecture.
• Strong expertise in SQL and data modeling.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle) and analytical databases/warehouses.
• Experience building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and workflow orchestration.
• Strong knowledge of batch and streaming data processing.
• Experience with Python for data engineering and automation.
• Experience designing cloud-based data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Working knowledge of modern data lake house architectures.
• Understanding of AI/ML data engineering concepts, including feature stores, vector databases, embeddings, LLMs, and SLMs.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data quality, security, and access control.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.