Forward Deployed Data Engineer
Abacus Insights19 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design and implement data models, ETL/ELT pipelines, and integrations on Snowflake.
- Translate business requirements into scalable ingestion, standardization, and analytics-ready data designs.
- Serve as a technical advisor to client data, IT, business, and senior stakeholders.
- Lead discovery sessions and workshops, gather requirements, and structure ambiguous problems.
- Communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Advise clients on payer data quality, mapping, and integration across claims, eligibility, member, provider, encounter, and care management datasets.
- Navigate healthcare interoperability standards and exchange patterns including FHIR, HL7, EDI, and APIs.
- Partner with healthcare subject matter experts, AI/product engineers, and core delivery teams.
- Apply Abacus data-modeling standards and capture reusable patterns, accelerators, and lessons learned.
- Travel to client sites as required, estimated at approximately 25%.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, solution engineering, or a related technical role.
- Strong expertise in data modeling, ETL/ELT, integration, databases, data pipelines, and analytics solution design.
- Hands-on Snowflake experience is required.
- Proficiency with SQL, Databricks, Spark, cloud data services, APIs, and integration frameworks.
- Experience with healthcare payer and related claims, eligibility, member, provider, encounter, and care management data.
- Familiarity with FHIR, HL7, EDI, and healthcare data exchange patterns.
- Ability to work directly with external clients and senior stakeholders amid ambiguous requirements.
- Strong facilitation, requirements-gathering, communication, structured problem-solving, analytical, and business judgment skills.
- Ability to work on-site with clients as needed.
- Preferred qualifications include consulting or professional services delivery experience, Snowflake or Databricks certifications, data governance or master data management experience, data quality framework experience, and familiarity with CMS, Medicaid, or Medicare data requirements.
Benefits
- Approximately 25% travel to client sites is required.
- Work from anywhere flexibility.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Comprehensive health coverage with multiple plan options.
- Equity for every employee.
- Growth-focused development environment.
- One-time home office setup allowance.
- Monthly cell phone allowance.
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About Abacus Insights
Abacus Insights builds a cloud-based, AI-ready data platform for health plans that ingests, standardizes, and governs payer and clinical data to power analytics and workflows. Sold as SaaS with pre-built connectors, it supports CMS interoperability, risk adjustment, HEDIS/Stars quality improvement, and payment integrity. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, the privately held company reports 35 payer customers covering 65 million members.