IT Data Engineer

Location & Compensation

• Location:
  
  1000 OAKLAND DR, KALAMAZOO, MI, , United States
• Base Pay: $65,463.00 - $76,394.00 / Year
• Relocation Expense Covered:
  No
• Employee Type:
  Exempt >= .80 FTE

• Email:
  Talent.
  
  Acquisition

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the organization’s data infrastructure to support a scalable, governed, and analytics‑ready environment. This role focuses on the development of robust data pipelines, integration of disparate data sources, and optimization of data storage and processing frameworks, while contributing to the evolution of the WMed data platform toward a data‑as‑a‑service (DaaS) model that enables standardized, secure, and reusable access to trusted data assets across clinical operations, medical education, research, compliance, and executive decision‑making.

Working within a modern data architecture, the Data Engineer transforms fragmented, system‑centric data into structured, reliable, and accessible datasets. This role partners closely with analysts, stakeholders, and technical teams to ensure data availability, integrity, and performance across platforms including partner EHRs, academic systems, and enterprise applications.

Please Note this is a Salaried Hybrid Position that will require on‑site attendance. (MI residents only or willing to relocate - at their expense, to Michigan)

This position is NOT eligible for employer‑sponsored work authorization (visa sponsorship), now or in the future.

• Wellness reimbursement
• Continuing education and tuition reimbursement
• Employer‑funded retirement plan
• Two medical plan options: PPO and High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) with employer HSA contribution
• Flexible work solutions based on position and department
• Up to four weeks of PTO accrual beginning in year one
• Paid holidays
• Paid preferred holiday

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data from clinical, academic, and enterprise systems
• Develop and manage ETL processes using tools such as Pentaho and Microsoft SSIS, ensuring reliability and performance
• Design and implement data models and schemas to support downstream analytics and reporting use cases
• Contribute to the development of a DaaS platform, enabling reusable, governed data products and standardized access patterns for analysts, applications, and self‑service users
• Optimize and maintain Postgre
  
  SQL data environments, including performance tuning and storage strategies
• Implement and monitor data quality, validation, and error‑handling processes
• Establish and maintain data lineage, metadata, and documentation to support governance and transparency
• Integrate new data sources into the data platform, including APIs, flat files, and third‑party systems
• Troubleshoot and resolve data issues across the full data lifecycle
• Support the evolution of organizational data architecture toward a modern, scalable platform
• Contribute to standards, best practices, and governance frameworks for data engineering
• All other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent experience)
• 3 to 5 years of experience in data engineering, ETL development, or data platform engineering
• Advanced proficiency in SQL (Postgre
  
  SQL or similar relational databases)
• Experience designing and managing data pipelines and workflows (Pentaho, Microsoft SSIS, or similar ETL tools)
• Experience working with healthcare data systems preferred
• Experience integrating academic and enterprise systems preferred

• Strong understanding of data architecture, data modeling, and data warehousing concepts
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines (ETL), orchestration, and scheduling frameworks
• Knowledge of data warehousing and/or data lake architectures
• Experience with data quality frameworks, validation, and monitoring
• Familiarity with performance tuning and query optimization
• Familiarity with modern data platform concepts including DaaS and self‑service analytics enablement
• Understanding of data governance, lineage, and metadata management concepts
• Experience working with structured and semi-structured data (CSV, JSON, APIs)
• Ability to troubleshoot data issues across multiple systems and layers (source to pipeline to warehouse to reporting)
• Experience with BI tools (Power BI or similar) for downstream data consumption
• Ability to learn and adapt to evolving data technologies and platforms

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer in compliance with applicable State and Federal law.