Data Engineer (Healthcare domain)

Peterson Technology Partners is seeking a Clinical Data Engineer for a 6–12 month remote contract opportunity to support the modernization of their healthcare data platform. The role involves building and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines, developing curated data marts for clinical reporting, and implementing data quality frameworks.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to support clinical reporting and analytics
• Build and maintain curated data marts to enable accurate and timely reporting
• Implement orchestration workflows to manage data ingestion and transformation processes
• Develop and enforce data quality checks, validation rules, and monitoring mechanisms
• Support migration of legacy data systems to modern cloud platforms (e.g., Snowflake)
• Collaborate with clinical, analytics, and business teams to gather reporting requirements
• Optimize data models for performance, scalability, and reliability
• Troubleshoot data discrepancies and ensure compliance with healthcare data standards
• Document data flows, transformations, and reporting logic

Requirements:

• Experience in clinical reporting or healthcare data environments
• Hands-on experience building ETL/ELT pipelines
• Strong SQL skills and data modeling experience
• Experience creating curated data marts
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools
• Experience implementing data quality checks and monitoring frameworks
• Experience supporting cloud data migrations
• Strong understanding of healthcare data compliance and best practices
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Experience with Snowflake
• Experience with modern orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, etc.)
• Experience working in regulated healthcare environments
• Familiarity with HIPAA compliance requirements