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