Senior Data Engineer, Healthcare
Medical Home Network
Data Science
Remote
Posted on May 2, 2025
Are you ready to join a passionate community of people who are changing how health care is delivered? A place where you will find a career you love while truly making a difference building healthier communities. If this sounds like you, we would love to have you apply as Senior Data Engineer, Healthcare, with Medical Home Network!
Founded in 2009 by the Comer Family Foundation, Medical Home Network unites health systems and providers around a vision to improve the health of patients and communities in Chicago. Today, as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), MHN has expanded its mission and impact to new markets and is a nationally recognized leader in transforming care within the safety net and building healthier communities across the country. Our whole person model of care, powered by proprietary technology, enhances collaboration across primary care and community-based organizations, leading to better outcomes, lower costs, and reduced health disparities.
THE OPPORTUNITY:
The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for playing a leading role in the implementation of cutting-edge solutions across the ecosystem for data ingestion, transformation, integration, and delivery. This individual will serve as a technical expert in integration architecture, leveraging advanced skills in Python, SQL and API development to create scalable, performant, and reusable systems. They will collaborate closely with stakeholders to define strategies for seamless data interoperability and ensure compliance with industry standards.
This individual will also be mentoring team members and ensuring alignment with the organization’s strategic goals. The role requires a proactive approach to solving complex data challenges while driving innovation in healthcare data engineering.
THE PERKS
- Fun, challenging, and collaborative work environment with passionate colleagues that care deeply about healthcare delivery.
- Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare.
- Competitive benefits programs including Medical, Vision, Dental, HSA, FSA, and 401k.
- Fitness reimbursement, commuter benefits, and tuition assistance.
- Great work life benefits- Paid time off, sick time, and 12 paid holidays.
- Hybrid schedule for employees within 50 miles of Chicago, 2 days on site 3 days remote. Open to remote outside of this area.
WHAT YOU CAN LOOK FORWARD TO:
- Collaborates with technology leadership to design and implement the strategic direction and vision for the integration architecture function, ensuring scalability and alignment with business objectives.
- Develops software and data solutions using Python, SQL, Linux, Azure, and other emerging technologies.
- Develops APIs and middleware for secure, reliable, and scalable data exchange between systems.
- Leads the design and development of end-to-end data integration pipelines, ensuring high performance and low latency.
- Leverages advanced expertise in Python, SQL to identify and address edge cases, potential bugs, and other sources of system inefficiency.
- Designs and supports production-grade integration workflows, including alerting, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Proactively evaluates new technologies and tools to enhance the integration architecture and data engineering practices.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Statistics, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer
- Excellent Python skills and familiarity with pandas and/or PySpark
- Excellent knowledge of SQL (DML & DDL)
- Experience with SQL databases and cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake.
- Hands-on experience with data migration and data integration projects in healthcare environments.
- Experience with GIT
- Familiarity with healthcare data standards; clinical data experience preferred.
Medical Home Network is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.