Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer, Data Modernizaton
AI summary of the role
Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer owning platform-specific data modernization for health systems, migrating legacy data (flat files, SFTP, Epic Clarity) to a modern AI-ready lakehouse on Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric.
What you’ll do
- Work forward-deployed inside customer environments, partnering with data/IT teams and presenting to technical leadership
- Own platform-specific architecture and build as technical lead under the Principal Solutions Architect
- Design and implement ingestion from EHR and source systems (Epic Clarity/Caboodle, FHIR, ERP) into a medallion lakehouse
- Build and harden CDC, transformation, and orchestration pipelines meeting engagement timelines
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years in data engineering or data platform roles at Senior or Staff IC level
- Deep hands-on expertise in Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric
- 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
Technologies
Databricks · Snowflake · Microsoft Fabric · PySpark · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Delta Lake · Unity Catalog · Snowpark · OneLake
About Qualified Health
Enterprise AI governance, agent creation, and monitoring platform enabling health systems to deploy generative AI safely at clinical and operational scale.
Series B · 100–200 people
Source and classification
Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:
Transform healthcare with us. At Qualified Health, we're redefining what's possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring — working alongside leading health systems to drive real change. This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare, solve complex challenges, and make a lasting impact on patient care. If you're ambitious, innovative, and ready to move fast, we'd love to have you on board. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare. About Forward-Deployed Engineering at QH. Data Modernization is a forward-deployed function. Every role on this team — leadership and IC alike — works directly with health system customers, on-site and in their environments, throughout the engagement. This is not a back-office
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Transform healthcare with us. At Qualified Health, we're redefining what's possible with Generative AI in healthcare. Our infrastructure provides the guardrails for safe AI governance, healthcare-specific agent creation, and real-time algorithm monitoring — working alongside leading health systems to drive real change. This is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to build the future of AI in healthcare, solve complex challenges, and make a lasting impact on patient care. If you're ambitious, innovative, and ready to move fast, we'd love to have you on board. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare. About Forward-Deployed Engineering at QH. Data Modernization is a forward-deployed function. Every role on this team — leadership and IC alike — works directly with health system customers, on-site and in their environments, throughout the engagement. This is not a back-office data role: you'll sit with the customer's data and IT teams, present your work to their technical leadership, and be accountable for outcomes they can see. All roles are Senior/Staff level or higher. Note on platform specialization: We are hiring Senior / Staff Data Engineers who each own deep expertise in one of our three target platforms — Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric. This single posting covers all three seats; we'll match you to the platform where your depth is strongest during t [... source excerpt omitted ...] ons Architect: you own the ingestion, the medallion architecture, the governance configuration, and the data-sharing pattern on your platform. Between engagements, you sustain our production environments, build the accelerators and reusable IP that make the next engagement faster, support pre-sales technical discovery, and cross-train on the other platforms so the team stays flexible. These are time-boxed, high-stakes builds. A greenfield foundation goes from zero to a live AI workflow in roughly ten weeks; an acceleration engagement folds hundreds of Clarity tables into an existing lakehouse on weeks-to-months timelines. You'll ship production-grade work in a regulated environmen [... source excerpt omitted ...] re "done" means it's governed, documented, and ready to hand to the integration team — not just that the pipeline ran once. Key Responsibilities Work forward-deployed inside the customer's environment: partner directly with their data and IT teams, present design decisions and progress to their technical leadership, and represent QH on-site during kickoffs and key milestones Own platform-specific architecture and build for your stack during active engagements, as technical lead under the Principal Solutions Architect Design and implement ingestion from EHR and source systems (Epic Clarity / Caboodle, FHIR, ERP, scheduling, claims) into a medallion lakehouse Build and harden
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