GCP Data Engineer / Data Architect – Healthcare (BigQuery Lakehouse) Remote_USA

BURGEON IT SERVICES is seeking a senior-level GCP Data Engineer / Data Architect with strong healthcare experience to design and build an enterprise-grade BigQuery-based Data Lake & Data Warehouse platform on Google Cloud. The role requires deep hands-on expertise in data pipelines, healthcare data standards, governance, and cloud architecture best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and build a GCP-based data lakehouse using BigQuery, GCS, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Composer
• Design batch, near real-time, and streaming ingestion pipelines
• Develop transformation frameworks using BigQuery SQL, Dataflow, Dataproc, or dbt
• Build bronze/silver/gold data layers and consumption-ready data marts
• Ingest clinical data (EHR/EMR, LIS, RIS/PACS) and non-clinical systems (ERP, HR, finance)
• Implement healthcare data standards such as HL7, FHIR, CCD/C-CDA, and DICOM
• Ensure HIPAA compliance, PHI protection, IAM/RBAC, encryption, and data governance
• Support hybrid on-prem to GCP data migrations
• Provide architectural guidance and mentor data engineers

Requirements:

• Healthcare domain experience is mandatory
• 10+ years in Data Engineering / Data Architecture
• Strong enterprise-level GCP data platform experience
• Proven healthcare domain project experience
• Architect and build a GCP-based data lakehouse using BigQuery, GCS, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Composer
• Design batch, near real-time, and streaming ingestion pipelines
• Develop transformation frameworks using BigQuery SQL, Dataflow, Dataproc, or dbt
• Build bronze/silver/gold data layers and consumption-ready data marts
• Ingest clinical data (EHR/EMR, LIS, RIS/PACS) and non-clinical systems (ERP, HR, finance)
• Implement healthcare data standards such as HL7, FHIR, CCD/C-CDA, and DICOM
• Ensure HIPAA compliance, PHI protection, IAM/RBAC, encryption, and data governance
• Support hybrid on-prem to GCP data migrations
• Provide architectural guidance and mentor data engineers
• GCP Data Stack (Strong Hands-On Required)
• BigQuery
• Dataflow
• Pub/Sub
• Dataproc
• Cloud Composer
• Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
• HL7 v2.x
• FHIR
• CCD / C-CDA
• DICOM
• LIS / RIS / PACS systems
• EHR / EMR data integration
• Strong SQL
• Data lakehouse architecture
• Star/snowflake schema design
• Canonical data modeling
• Bronze / Silver / Gold data layering
• Metadata management and data lineage
• HIPAA compliance
• PHI/PII handling
• IAM, RBAC
• VPC security
• DLP and encryption
• VPC networking
• Hybrid connectivity (VPN/Interconnect)
• On-prem to cloud migration strategies
• Dataplex
• Medical device / IoT data ingestion