Data Engineer
Birmingham, MI - USA
Job Summary
General Summary
The Healthcare Data Engineer is responsible for designing building and maintaining scalable data pipelines and analytics infrastructure for Urology Centers of Alabama P.C. This role ensures the reliable integration of clinical revenue cycle and operational data from multiple systems to support reporting analytics compliance and strategic decision-making across the organization. The Data Engineer partners closely with clinical revenue cycle finance and IT teams to ensure data accuracy availability and security in a regulated healthcare environment.
Essential Functions
- Data Architecture & Engineering
- Design develop and maintain data pipelines that integrate data from EMRs practice management systems billing platforms payer files and ancillary systems
- Build and manage data warehouses data marts and structured datasets to support clinical financial and operational reporting
- Optimize data performance reliability and scalability across analytics platforms
- Healthcare Systems Integration
- Extract transform and load (ETL) data from healthcare systems including EMR revenue cycle scheduling and financial systems
- Ensure accurate mapping of clinical and financial data elements such as CPT ICD-10 HCPCS modifiers charges payments and adjustments
- Support interoperability standards such as HL7 FHIR and flat-file payer feeds where applicable
- Data Quality Governance & Compliance
- Implement data validation auditing and reconciliation processes to ensure data integrity across systems
- Partner with Revenue Cycle Compliance and Clinical teams to support auditing reimbursement analysis and regulatory reporting
- Ensure data security access controls and HIPAA compliance across all data environments
- Analytics & Reporting Enablement
- Enable dashboards and reporting for key performance areas including revenue cycle performance provider productivity quality metrics and operational efficiency
- Support advanced analytics initiatives such as denial analysis reimbursement variance tracking capacity utilization and physician performance reporting
- Collaborate with analysts and business stakeholders to translate reporting needs into scalable data solutions
- Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
- Work closely with IT EMR administrators vendors and business leaders to support system upgrades and new implementations
- Document data models pipelines and data definitions to support transparency and sustainability
- Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting and improve data accessibility across Urology Centers of Alabama P.C.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit handle or feel objects tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop kneel crouch or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 45 pounds.
Supervisory Requirements
This position will not supervise employees.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Data Engineering Information Systems or related field (required)
- Healthcare analytics or informatics education preferred
- 37 years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering
- Experience working with healthcare data preferably in a physician practice or multi-specialty environment
- Hands-on experience integrating EMR and revenue cycle data
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases (e.g. SQL Server PostgreSQL Oracle)
- Experience with ETL tools and data pipeline frameworks
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms (Azure AWS or GCP preferred)
- Experience with healthcare data standards (CPT ICD-10 HL7 FHIR)
- Knowledge of BI tools (Power BI Tableau or similar)
Licensure Certification Registration Requirements
None.
Required Experience:
IC