Remote Data Engineer, Healthcare

at Cascala Health

Posted 4 hours ago 1 applied

Description:

  • Cascala Health is dedicated to revolutionizing care transitions by bridging communication gaps between hospital discharge and post-acute care.
  • The company’s platform facilitates meaningful engagement across care teams, activating personalized interventions to prevent hospital readmissions and promote long-term health for patients in risk-based care models.
  • The role of Data Engineer involves building robust, efficient data pipelines and infrastructure for the healthcare technology platform.
  • The Data Engineer will ensure reliable data flows between applications and healthcare systems, enabling analytics and AI-driven decision-making.
  • Key responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining scalable ETL pipelines for healthcare data integration from diverse EMR/EHR sources, ensuring data quality and compliance with healthcare standards and regulations, collaborating with AI engineers and clinical teams, optimizing database systems for performance and scalability, and implementing monitoring systems to ensure data integrity.

Requirements:

  • Candidates must have 4+ years in data engineering, with at least 2 years specifically in healthcare technology.
  • Deep proficiency in ETL tools, big data frameworks (Spark, Hadoop), SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud services (AWS preferred) is required.
  • Familiarity with healthcare data formats (HL7, FHIR) and integration techniques is essential.
  • A solid understanding of data security, privacy, and healthcare-specific regulations (HIPAA, HITRUST) is necessary.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to resolve complex data engineering challenges efficiently are required.
  • A Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) in Computer Science, Data Science, Biomedical Informatics, or a related technical field is required; a Master’s or Ph.D. is preferred or equivalent experience.
  • Experience supporting AI and machine learning data workflows and an AWS Data Engineering certification are considered nice to have.

Benefits:

  • Cascala Health offers competitive pay with a base salary range of $140,000-160,000.
  • Comprehensive health benefits are provided, including access to One Medical, Teledoc, Kindbody, Talkspace, and more.
  • Employees enjoy unlimited PTO and 11 company holidays.
  • Equity opportunities are available for select roles.
  • The company promotes a mission-driven culture rooted in clinical excellence, purpose-driven innovation, and real human impact.