Senior Federal Healthcare Data Engineer

Senior Federal Healthcare Data Engineer

We are seeking a highly specialized Senior Data Engineer to support a large government contractor on a long-term federal healthcare technology program. This critical role supports a Defense Health Agency (DHA) initiative focused on improving the connection between healthcare data, operational medical readiness data, electronic health records (EHR), clinical decision support, and leadership visibility across the armed services. This is a highly specialized position requiring a rare combination of DoD federal program experience, healthcare IT domain knowledge (HL7/FHIR), and modern cloud data engineering depth.

Generalist data engineers or commercial healthcare-only profiles will not meet client requirements.

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Core Responsibilities:

• Data Pipeline Engineering:
  Build, optimize, and maintain robust, scalable cloud-based data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data platforms within secure environments.
• Interoperability Standards:
  Architect and engineer direct interfaces using FHIR R4 and HL7 v2/v3 standards in a production environment to link disparate clinical, readiness, and administrative systems.
• Mission-Critical Data Integration:
  Support a major health-related initiative aimed at modernizing how medical readiness data connects to electronic health records (MHS GENESIS) and provider workflows.
• Agile
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Execute within formal Agile/Scrum environments, managing sprint execution, backlog updates, and delivery tracking using structured management tools.
• Documentation & Governance:
  Maintain strong documentation discipline for all pipelines and engineering processes, ensuring alignment with strict federal review cycles, approvals, and auditability requirements.

Hard Requirements Candidates must meet ALL of the following criteria to be considered for client screening:

• Defense Health Agency (DHA)
• Military Health System (MHS) / MHS GENESIS
• VA Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM)
• Program Executive Office Defense Health Management Systems (PEO DHMS)
• CMS, CDC, or other federal health agencies with EHR/clinical data scope

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Note:

Commercial healthcare experience such as CVS, Humana, or local hospital networks does not satisfy this requirement.)

Strong Differentiators (Preferred Qualifications) Candidates possessing one or more of these elements will move to the top of the stack:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Familiarity with DoD acquisition frameworks, processes, or artifacts (e.g., JCIDS, Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF), CDD/CNS, milestone/gate reviews, RMF/ATO, and federal data governance).
• Direct experience working in DoD Gov Cloud (IL4/IL5) environments.
• Hands-on experience with IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (Jazz Suite).
• Direct familiarity with MHS-specific legacy data sources: MEPRS, SIDR, CAPER, M2, or CHCS.
• Experience with SAFe for Government methodology.
• Understanding of federal cybersecurity and compliance frameworks (NIST 800-171, HIPAA, Privacy Act, CUI handling).

Automatically Disqualifying Profiles Please do not apply if your profile falls under any of the following categories:

• Commercial healthcare experience only (no federal health program experience).
• Federal IT experience without a healthcare domain background (no FHIR/HL7, no EHR programs).
• Strong FHIR/HL7 experience but lacking modern cloud data engineering depth (e.g., pipeline creation, Databricks, Snowflake).
• Business Intelligence (BI) or reporting-first professionals (heavy Tableau/Power BI focus) without backend data pipeline engineering depth.
• Scrum Masters, Product Owners, or Project Managers, but not Data Engineers
• Non-U.S. citizens or candidates with work authorization other than U.S. Citizenship, due to the government requirement.

Metasys Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be…