Health Data Engineering Lead

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Travel Required
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Clearance Required
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What You Will Do
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• Lead technical delivery for complex healthcare data and analytics initiatives, providing day-to-day direction to data engineers, analysts, and other technical team members.
• Manage technical workplans, priorities, dependencies, risks, and deliverables to keep work streams on schedule and aligned with project objectives.
• Serve as a bridge between business and technical teams, translating business requirements and data needs into actionable technical requirements and solutions.
• Lead the ingestion, mapping, transformation, validation, and integration of complex healthcare data, including claims, eligibility, enrollment, payment, and other administrative data, from multiple sources.
• Guide the design and development of scalable data pipelines and analytics solutions using Databricks, Python, SQL, and modern data engineering practices.
• Work directly with client and external stakeholders to understand data structures, business rules, data-quality issues, and technical constraints and drive issues through resolution.
• Oversee data validation and quality-control processes to assess completeness, accuracy, consistency, and readiness for downstream analytics.
• Lead technical requirements and solutioning discussions and communicate technical approaches, risks, issues, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide hands-on troubleshooting and technical guidance when needed while maintaining ownership of overall team delivery.
• Identify opportunities to improve data engineering processes, automation, maintainability, and scalability.

What You Will Need
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• Bachelor’s degree (Relevant experience may be substituted for formal education or advanced degree)
• Minimum of FIVE (5) years of experience, preferably within healthcare or the public sector.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience working directly with clients and communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex technical and data issues.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, dependencies, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with healthcare data, health IT, or healthcare analytics.

What Would Be Nice To Have
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• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Previous experience supporting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs, systems, or data.
• 7+ years of experience delivering data, analytics, technology, or related technical solutions, preferably within healthcare or the public sector.
• 3+ years of experience leading technical teams or technical delivery, including responsibility for work planning, delivery management, issue resolution, and coordination across multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated technical project management experience delivering complex data, analytics, or technology initiatives.
• Strong experience with data engineering, including data ingestion, ETL/ELT, transformation, data mapping, data validation, and data quality.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Python, and SQL, or demonstrated experience leading teams delivering solutions using these technologies.
• Experience working with state government health programs, including Medicaid, State-based Exchanges (SBE), or other health and human services programs.
• Experience with healthcare claims, eligibility, enrollment, payment, or other…