Data Engineer (Healthcare) – Snowflake Specialist
Location: Remote or Hybrid
Employment Type: Contract, Contract-to-Hire, or Full-Time
Industry: Healthcare / HealthTech
Clearance/Eligibility: Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Overview
Our healthcare client is seeking an experienced Data Engineer with strong expertise in Snowflake to design, build, and optimize modern data pipelines and scalable data platforms. This role plays a key part in enabling clinical analytics, population health insights, regulatory reporting, and data-driven decision-making across the organization.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience working with healthcare data ecosystems, strong knowledge of Snowflake data warehousing, and the ability to build secure, reliable ETL/ELT pipelines in compliance with HIPAA and healthcare data standards.
Key ResponsibilitiesSnowflake Engineering
- Design, develop, and optimize Snowflake data warehouses, including schema design, clustering, data modeling, and performance tuning.
- Create and manage Snowflake objects (databases, schemas, stages, pipes, streams, tasks, warehouses).
- Support Snowflake data ingestion, including external tables, data sharing, Snowpipe, and continuous ingestion frameworks.
Data Pipeline Development
- Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for clinical, operational, and financial healthcare datasets.
- Integrate data from multiple healthcare systems (EHR/EMR, claims, HL7, FHIR, third-party data feeds).
- Develop workflows using tools such as Airflow, dbt, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, or equivalent orchestration platforms.
Cloud & Architecture
- Design and support cloud-based data architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with strong emphasis on Snowflake best practices.
- Implement secure data storage, access patterns, and data lifecycle management in compliance with HIPAA.
Data Quality & Governance
- Implement and maintain data quality rules, validation frameworks, and data lineage tracking.
- Ensure compliance with healthcare data governance, PHI handling, and security policies.
- Collaborate with data governance and compliance teams to enforce standards across the data pipeline.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Support
- Work closely with analysts, data scientists, and clinical/operational teams to understand data needs.
- Troubleshoot data pipeline issues and optimize performance for large-scale healthcare datasets.
- Translate business requirements into scalable data engineering solutions.
Required Qualifications
- 3–7+ years of data engineering experience, preferably in healthcare or regulated industries.
- Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, including:
- Snowflake SQL
- Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks
- Time Travel, Clustering, Secure Views
- Performance tuning and warehouse optimization
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience with ETL/ELT tools (dbt, Airflow, Matillion, Fivetran, Informatica, or similar).
- Experience working with healthcare data formats (FHIR, HL7, CCD, X12, claims, etc.) strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, MPP architectures, and dimensional modeling.
- Familiarity with HIPAA security and compliance requirements.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with healthcare analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker).
- Experience integrating EHR/EMR platforms (Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Athena).
- Knowledge of data cataloging, governance, and metadata management tools.
- Experience working with DevOps principles, Git, and CI/CD workflows.
- Certifications in Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Eight Eleven Group (Brooksource) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Pay: $50.00 - $70.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Are you able to work on a W2?
- Do you hold citizenship status as a US Citizen or Green Card?
- How many years of experience do you have in Healthcare?
- How many years of experience do you have with Snowflake?
Work Location: Remote
