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Senior Healthcare Data Engineer

ASSYST, Inc.
Austin, USA
Senior
Hybrid
Discovered 2 days ago

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Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct an in-depth needs assessment to determine system and functional requirements for TBIRDS to ingest incoming eICRs and auto-populate designated registry fields.
  • Translate epidemiological and clinical surveillance workflows into concrete technical specifications, data dictionaries, and architectural recommendations.
  • Produce formal System Requirements Documents (SRD) and comprehensive integration runbooks to ensure long-term solution sustainability
  • Design, build, test, and maintain automated data pipelines using SAS, Python, R, or SQL to extract, ingest, and process high-volume electronic health record (EHR) data feeds.
  • Create automated rules for deterministic and probabilistic record linkage, entity deduplication, and integration across relational databases.
  • Automate the clinical review workflow to triage and route incoming case alerts, minimizing manual abstraction lag.
  • Build, configure, and maintain interactive operational dashboards tracking eCR ingestion volumes, data completeness, processing bottlenecks, and transformation error rates.
  • Present actionable system and surveillance metrics to branch leadership, epidemiologists, and technical collaborators.
  • Establish unit, integration, and regression testing frameworks to validate pipeline reliability, data completeness, and standardization.
  • Ensure transformations strictly preserve semantic meaning across clinical terminology sets and interoperability standards.
  • Debug script issues, address parsing anomalies, and continuously optimize data ingestion throughput.
  • Maintain end-to-end documentation for all scripts, schemas, data flows, and automated ETL procedures.
  • Interface between epidemiological researchers, IT infrastructure teams, and external healthcare reporting partners to ensure aligned system modernization.
  • Qualifications & Skill Requirements
  • 8+ Years in Scripting & Statistical Programming, Hands-on development, testing, maintenance, and troubleshooting using SAS, Python, R, or comparable enterprise data languages.
  • 8+ Years in System Integration & Automation, Proven track record designing automated interoperability workflows, data exchange routines, and dashboard solutions.
  • 8+ Years in Health & Database Systems, Experience querying and managing complex structured or semi-structured healthcare, public health, or administrative datasets using relational databases (SQL).
  • 8+ Years in System Requirements & Technical Analysis, Demonstrated ability to evaluate business and programmatic needs and translate them into formal technical specifications and system reports.
  • 8+ Years in Data Validation & Quality Assurance, Methodological testing, auditing, and verification of automated data integration pipelines.
  • 8+ Years in Technical Documentation & Communication, Strong documentation habits alongside demonstrated ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical and clinical staff.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 2+ Years in Healthcare Interoperability & Messaging, Direct experience handling electronic case reporting (eCR / eICR), Health Information Exchanges (HIE), Electronic Health Records (EHR), and standards such as HL7 (v2/v3), CDA, HL7 FHIR, XML, or JSON.
  • 2+ Years in Clinical Terminology, Familiarity working with standardized clinical classifications such as SNOMED CT, LOINC, and ICD-10.
  • 2+ Years in Public Health & Registry Systems, Experience working with state public health registries, disease surveillance systems, data linkage/matching methods, and production-grade ETL pipelines.
  • ASSYST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law

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