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Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer, Data Modernization
Location
United States
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$180K - $230K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer, Data Modernization
Qualified Health
• Work forward-deployed inside the customer's environment • Own platform-specific architecture and build for your stack during active engagements • Design and implement ingestion from EHR and source systems (Epic Clarity / Caboodle, FHIR, ERP, scheduling, claims) into a medallion lakehouse • Build and harden change-data-capture, transformation, and orchestration pipelines that meet engagement timelines • Configure governance, access control, and the data-sharing pattern that hands clean, AI-ready data to QH's platform • Sustain production environments handed off from prior engagements • Support pre-sales technical discovery and source-data assessment • Ensure every environment meets handoff criteria for the Client Integration team • Cross-train on the other two platforms to keep the team flexible across single- and multi-engagement states
Job Requirements
- 8+ years in data engineering or data platform roles, at a Senior or Staff IC level
- Client-facing maturity — comfortable working on-site in a customer's environment and presenting technical work to their data and IT leadership
- Deep, hands-on expertise in at least one of Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric
- Has shipped production data workloads in a regulated environment (HIPAA, HITRUST, or comparable)
- Strong in Python and distributed data processing (PySpark or equivalent), plus SQL and modern transformation tooling
- Comfortable as the sole platform expert on an engagement
- Infrastructure-as-code fluency (Terraform) and CI/CD discipline (GitHub Actions)
Benefits
- competitive salaries with equity packages
- robust medical/dental/vision insurance
- flexible working hours
- hybrid work options
- inclusive environment that fosters creativity and innovation
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