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Data Engineer, Principal - Claims

Health Catalyst
US Remote, United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Jul 2025

About the role

Join one of the nation’s leading and most impactful health care performance improvement companies. Over the years, Health Catalyst has achieved and documented clinical, operational, and financial improvements for many of the nation’s leading healthcare organizations. We are also increasingly serving international markets. Our mission is to be the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement through:

  • Data: integrate data in a flexible, open & scalable platform to power healthcare’s digital transformation​

  • Analytics: deliver analytic applications & services that generate insight on how to measurably improve​

  • Expertise: provide clinical, financial & operational experts who enable & accelerate improvement​

  • Engagement: attract, develop and retain world-class team members by being a best place to work​

Role: Principal Data Engineer(Claims)

Team: Data Solutions

Location: US Remote

Travel: <10%, US

Job Profile Summary

The Data Engineer is responsible for envisioning, communicating, and overseeing the development of data products for the organization. The data products must support a wide variety of analytic use cases with a focus on data quality, standardization, and scalability. Responsibilities include designing, testing, and building efficient data flows and products able to handle high volumes of data. The Claims Data Engineer will work as a team with other architects and data engineers and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver a cohesive data architecture to achieve the company’s strategic objectives. The Claims Engineer will need to have intimate knowledge of claims data, its sources, and its analytic use cases.  They will ensure alignment of the product design and development with priorities set by our Product Management team. 

Who you are/what you'll own:

  • Work with Data Solutions Leadership and related Business Units to design and apply creative and efficient solutions to a variety of data transformation and products.
  • Work with Product Management to ensure the data engineering team has clear requirements based on value to our customers
  • Collaborate with other Data Architects to define and standardize data development best practices.
  • Design and develop performant incremental data flows and pipelines
  • Perform reviews of work done and provide guidance to other department data engineers
  • Ability to dig into the data and understand business logic within the source system data.
  • Identify data validation tests to ensure data quality.
  • Engage/train/mentor internal team members and partners from other teams.
  • Balance tasks and priorities between projects and initiatives; ensure assigned tasks are executed efficiently and according to project requirements and timelines
  • All other duties as assigned

What you'll bring to this role:

  • Deep knowledge of payer claim data across a variety of payers (including: commercial insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE/VA, FEHBP, Worker's Comp, etc)
  • Deep knowledge about various ways claim data is transmitted (flat files, 837, etc)
  • Experience leveraging claim data for analytic purposes
  • Expert level in Structured Query Language (SQL)
  • Big Data Technology (primarily Databricks) experience, a plus
  • Industry Standard Data Tooling (primarily DBT), a plus
  • Experience working with EMR\EHR systems and an understanding of the healthcare clinical domain
  • Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
  • Strong leadership and problem-solving abilities
  • Ability to coordinate and communicate effectively with other team members
  • Self-motivated; comfortable working under general direction
  • Working knowledge of big data principles, processes, technologies, and tools
  • Ability to take pride in the quality, details, efficiency, and consistency of the data warehouse components that you will build, deploy, and maintain at scale.
  • Experience with a variety of healthcare data including Claims, Clinical, HL7 messages, CCD documents, and EDI X12 Claims files

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