Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Healthcare AI Platform Data Infrastructure New York Hybrid

About the Company

We are representing a high-growth AI startup building infrastructure to automate complex administrative workflows in healthcare.

The company is creating an AI-native platform that integrates with provider systems and helps automate areas such as insurance verification prior authorization billing intake revenue cycle operations and clinical workflow support.

This is a rare opportunity for a data engineer to build core data infrastructure from the ground up in a complex high-impact domain where clean data reliable pipelines and operational visibility directly shape product and business decisions.

The Role

We are looking for a Data Engineer to build the data infrastructure powering analytics business intelligence operational monitoring and AI-driven decision-making across a healthcare automation platform.

You will design and maintain data pipelines integrate fragmented healthcare and operational data sources model complex workflows into clean data structures and create the analytics foundation that helps the company measure monitor and optimize its systems.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys owning the full data stack: ingestion transformation modeling analytics alerting and infrastructure decisions.

Over time you will have the opportunity to take end-to-end ownership of the data platform and shape the technical direction of the companys data architecture.

What Youll Do

Design build and maintain reliable data pipelines across internal systems third-party APIs and healthcare data sources.

Integrate complex data sources such as operational systems healthcare records billing workflows claims-related data and external feeds.

Build clean scalable data models for revenue cycle workflows intake operations clinical processes and business reporting.

Develop analytics-ready schemas that support dashboards reporting monitoring and operational decision-making.

Build dashboards alerts and analytical tools to identify automation opportunities and operational bottlenecks.

Support product engineering operations and leadership teams with high-quality data infrastructure.

Contribute to the technical direction of the business intelligence and data platform.

Improve data quality reliability observability and performance across the stack.

Help create the foundation for AI/ML-driven workflows analytics and automation.

What Were Looking For

3 years of experience building and maintaining production data pipelines warehouses and analytics infrastructure.

Strong SQL skills.

Experience with at least one modern data warehouse or lakehouse such as Databricks Redshift Snowflake BigQuery or similar.

Experience with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL.

Experience building ETL or ELT pipelines using tools such as Airflow dbt Dagster or similar orchestration frameworks.

Comfort working across the full data lifecycle from raw ingestion through analytics-ready models.

Ability to model complex operational domains into clean queryable schemas.

Comfort with exploratory analysis statistical thinking and analytical problem-solving.

Experience using Python or R for data analysis.

Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical data concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Ability to partner effectively with product engineering and operational teams.

High ownership detail orientation and comfort operating in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice to Have

Experience in healthcare technology or healthcare operations.

Familiarity with healthcare data standards or data types such as EDI HL7 FHIR claims data clinical documentation or provider workflows.

Experience with real-time or streaming data pipelines.

Background in data science machine learning or feature engineering for AI/ML systems.

Exposure to BI tools such as Hex Sigma or similar.

Experience working in a high-growth startup or scale-up environment.

Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and tooling such as AWS Terraform or similar.

Why This Role Is Exciting

You will build foundational data infrastructure rather than simply maintain legacy systems.

Your work will directly shape how an AI healthcare platform measures and improves operations.

You will work with complex messy high-value healthcare data.

You will partner closely with product engineering and operations rather than sit in a silo.

You will have the opportunity to define the long-term data architecture for a fast-scaling platform.

You will help create analytics and automation systems that reduce administrative waste in healthcare.

Work Model

Full-time role.

Hybrid in New York with regular in-office collaboration expected.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.