Health Data Engineering Lead

Location: Remote, null, USA

Salary: $ USD Annually - $ USD Annually

Company:
Top-tier Fed Gov consulting firm

Position:
Health Data Engineering Lead

4 year federal gov contract

Citizen & GC only

Benefits:
Healthcare, dental, 401k etc

• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 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 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.

• Previous experience supporting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs, systems, or data.
• Experience working with state government health programs, including Medicaid, State-based Exchanges, or other health and human services programs.
• Experience with healthcare claims, eligibility, enrollment, payment, or other administrative healthcare data.
• Experience designing or delivering solutions using Databricks Lakehouse/Medallion architecture, Delta Lake, or comparable cloud data platforms.
• Experience modernizing legacy data or analytics environments, including migration from SAS or other legacy technologies to Python, SQL, or Databricks.
• Understanding of data normalization, automated validation, configurable business rules, and data‑quality frameworks.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and coordinating across engineering, analytics, functional, and project management teams.
• Experience supporting federal technology or data programs with security, privacy, and data‑governance requirements.

Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.