Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer, Data Modernizaton

The role

You will own platform-specific builds to transition health systems from legacy connectivity to modern, AI-ready lakehouses. You will serve as a technical lead on-site at customer environments, managing ingestion, architecture, and governance.

What you will do

• Work forward-deployed inside the customer's environment
• Partner directly with customer data and IT teams
• Present design decisions and progress to technical leadership
• Own platform-specific architecture and build for your stack
• Design and implement ingestion from EHR and source systems into a medallion lakehouse
• Build and harden change-data-capture, transformation, and orchestration pipelines
• Configure governance, access control, and data-sharing patterns
• Sustain production environments and develop reusable accelerators
• Support pre-sales technical discovery and source-data assessment
• Cross-train on other platforms to maintain team flexibility

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or data platform roles, at a Senior or Staff IC level
• Client-facing maturity
• 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)
• SQL and modern transformation tooling
• Infrastructure-as-code fluency (Terraform)
• CI/CD discipline (GitHub Actions)

Nice to have

• Production Databricks experience inside a health system or Databricks partner consultancy
• Epic Clarity inside Snowflake
• Prior Azure Synapse / ADF / Databricks-on-Azure background
• Resident / customer-success solutions architect or engineer from a cloud data platform vendor
• Senior data engineer from a health system running on your platform, or from a platform-partner consultancy
• Familiarity with EHR data models and the realities of on-prem-to-cloud CDC
• Background in consulting, professional services, or data platform implementation in regulated industries

Benefits

• Competitive salaries with equity packages
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid work options
• Unlimited PTO

About the company

Qualified Health is a fast-growing company redefining what's possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Their infrastructure provides guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring.