Healthcare Data Engineer

Classification: Exempt

Reports To: CTO/ Chief Data Officer

Company Overview

MyHealth Access Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) that provides cutting-edge technology solutions to improve patient care by facilitating collaboration between providers. We coordinate care across various agencies, supporting not only physical health but also addressing social determinants of health.  MyHealth also empowers community-wide initiatives aimed at improving health and empowers patients facing social difficulties through screening and referral to essential life services.  Our commitment to the 5 rights of health information—right patient, right provider, right information, at the right time, in the right setting—ensures better patient outcomes while safeguarding individual privacy.

Job Description

The Healthcare Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable data pipelines that support clinical, claims, and population health use cases. This role enables data integration from multiple health systems, payers, and community sources, with a focus on interoperability standards such as HL7, FHIR, and USCDI. The ideal candidate has experience managing end-to-end workflows for data ingestion, normalization, and delivery to downstream systems such as data warehouses, analytics platforms, and reporting tools. This position is central to enabling data-driven decision making, clinical program support, and value-based care initiatives.

Key Responsibilities Include:

  • Develop and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to support ingestion, transformation, and delivery of healthcare data.
  • Integrate data from diverse sources including EHRs, HIEs, payers, labs, SDoH feeds, and public health registries.
  • Ensure compliance with data standards such as HL7 v2.x, FHIR, CDA, X12, USCDI, LOINC, SNOMED, and ICD-10.
  • Collaborate with data quality analysts, clinical informaticists, and BI teams to ensure data accuracy, usability, and performance.
  • Design and maintain data models and schemas optimized for population health, care management, and regulatory reporting.
  • Automate data quality checks and validation logic across the data pipeline lifecycle.
  • Work closely with security and compliance teams to enforce HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and other data privacy policies.
  • Support data integration efforts related to user-facing dashboards, patient registries, risk scoring models, and program analytics.
  • Document technical specifications, pipeline logic, and data lineage as part of a structured governance process.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of the data architecture through performance tuning, pipeline optimization, and tool evaluation.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Health Informatics, or related field.
  • 3+ years of experience in data engineering or healthcare IT, including experience with clinical and/or claims data.
  • Proficiency in SQL and programming languages such as Python or Scala.
  • Hands-on experience with data pipeline tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, Azure Data Factory) and cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
  • Working knowledge of HL7 v2.x, FHIR, and other interoperability standards.
  • Understanding of relational and non-relational database structures and best practices in data architecture.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively across technical and clinical teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working in an HIE, payer, provider, or population health setting.
  • Familiarity with healthcare analytics platforms and tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker).
  • Exposure to data governance, metadata management, or data cataloging tools.
  • Experience implementing FHIR Bulk Data (Flat FHIR), SMART on FHIR APIs, or other modern interoperability approaches.
  • Certification in cloud engineering, data engineering, or healthcare IT standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR, AWS, GCP, Azure).

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to lift a maximum of 30 pounds.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a remote position.  The employee must have a private location from which to work, with Internet access and a personal smartphone with capability to be secured and have support for SMS, apps for multifactor authentication and remote hotspot (technology stipend provided to help offset costs). Some flexibility in hours is allowed, but the employee must be available during the “core” work hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST. and must work 40 hours each week to maintain full-time status.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional virtual office environment (Remote). This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, fax machines, paper binders and paper cutters.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to read (see), talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to lift a maximum of 30 pounds.

Travel

Occasional travel may be required in support of on-site meetings, projects and customers, primarily local and statewide.

AAP/EEO Statement

MyHealth expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability or veteran status.

Other Duties

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. The following are always expected:

  • Comply with employee handbook
  • Be prompt and on time
  • Communicate clearly
  • Treat others with respect
  • Maintain confidentiality where appropriate
  • Be honest and open with questions, concerns and feedback for others