Data Engineer

Curana Health is a national leader in value-based care focused on improving the health and dignity of older adults. The Data Engineer will build, optimize, and maintain data pipelines to support clinical and operational reporting, working closely with senior engineers to meet the organization's data analytics needs.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines for healthcare datasets including claims, eligibility, provider, risk adjustment, HEDIS, EHR, and clinical data
• Support the development of data models and data transformations aligned with healthcare standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR, X12)
• Contribute to data quality checks, validation rules, and documentation for healthcare data assets
• Work with analysts and business users to understand data requirements and translate them into technical tasks
• Assist in ingestion and integration of new data sources from EMR systems, CMS feeds, and vendor partners
• Develop SQL queries, transformations, functions, and stored procedures to support reporting and analytics workflows
• Support data platform tools such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Python/Spark jobs, and version control workflows
• Participate in issue resolution related to data pipeline failures or data quality errors
• Maintain data dictionaries, mapping files, and documentation as part of data governance processes
• Collaborate with senior engineers to implement best practices in security, compliance (HIPAA), and architecture

Requirements:

• 2–4 years of experience in data engineering, ETL development, or data integration
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases
• Basic to intermediate experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, PySpark, or comparable ETL tools
• Familiarity with healthcare data types such as claims, eligibility, provider files, or EHR data
• Basic Python or Scala programming skills
• Understanding of data warehousing concepts and modern data architectures
• Ability to learn quickly and work collaboratively with technical and non-technical teams
• Strong communication, documentation, and organizational skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Healthcare Informatics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Healthcare experience preferred
• Knowledge of interoperability formats (HL7, X12, FHIR) is a strong plus