Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer, Data Modernizaton
Qualified Health PBC4 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Work directly in customer environments with health system data and IT teams, present technical work to leadership, and represent Qualified Health during kickoffs and milestones.
- Own platform-specific architecture and production build as the technical lead under the Principal Solutions Architect.
- Design and implement ingestion from EHR, ERP, scheduling, claims, and other source systems into medallion lakehouses.
- Build and harden change-data-capture, transformation, and orchestration pipelines within engagement timelines.
- Configure governance, access control, and data-sharing patterns for AI-ready data.
- Sustain production environments and develop reusable accelerators and intellectual property.
- Support pre-sales technical discovery and source-data assessments.
- Ensure environments are governed, documented, reproducible, and ready for handoff to the Client Integration team.
- Cross-train on Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric platforms.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles at a Senior or Staff individual-contributor level.
- Demonstrated ability to work on-site with customers and present technical work to data and IT leadership.
- Deep hands-on expertise in at least one of Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric.
- Production data workload experience in HIPAA, HITRUST, or another regulated environment.
- Strong Python, distributed data processing such as PySpark, SQL, and modern transformation tooling skills.
- Ability to independently own a platform build as the sole platform expert on an engagement.
- Infrastructure-as-code fluency with Terraform and CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions.
- Experience with at least one platform's relevant ecosystem, including Delta Lake and Unity Catalog; Snowpark, Snowpipe, dbt, and Streams & Tasks; or OneLake, Fabric Data Factory, and SQL Server Mirroring for CDC.
- Familiarity with EHR data models, on-premises-to-cloud CDC, and healthcare data such as Epic Clarity and Caboodle.
- Consulting, professional services, data platform implementation, cloud data vendor, health system, or platform-partner experience is desirable.
- Healthcare, fintech, regulated-industry, customer-success solutions architecture, or cross-platform data modernization experience is desirable.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $180,000 to $230,000, with equity, medical, dental, vision insurance, unlimited PTO, flexible working hours, and hybrid work options.
- The role involves customer-environment work and on-site participation during kickoffs and key milestones.
- The position offers work on a fast-growing, mission-driven healthcare AI product with high ownership and customer impact.
About Qualified Health PBC
Qualified Health PBC builds an enterprise AI platform for health systems, combining workflow automation, generative AI agent development, clinical safeguards, real-time monitoring, and end-to-end governance. The company sells software and partnership-based deployment services to drive measurable clinical and financial outcomes for hospitals and health networks. Headquartered in Palo Alto, it reports reach to over 500,000 users across top U.S. health systems and is backed by investors including NEA, Transformation Capital, and SignalFire.