Data Engineer
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Last updated on 21 Nov 2025
Overview
A Data Engineer in the healthcare sector plays a critical role in managing and optimizing data infrastructure to support clinical operations and healthcare analytics. This role involves designing data pipelines, maintaining databases, and ensuring the smooth flow of health-related information. By enabling efficient data management, they contribute to better decision-making and patient care. They collaborate with IT teams, clinicians, and analysts to handle large-scale health data systems. Ensuring data security, integrity, and compliance with healthcare regulations is a key responsibility.
Job Description
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and databases for processing clinical and operational healthcare data.
- Integrate data from multiple sources such as EHRs, lab systems, wearable devices, and health apps into unified platforms.
- Ensure data quality, accuracy, and integrity while adhering to healthcare compliance standards like HIPAA.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and medical staff to provide reliable data access for reporting and analytics.
- Monitor and troubleshoot data system performance and carry out maintenance activities to ensure continuous operation.
- Implement security measures to protect sensitive patient information and maintain system confidentiality.
- Stay updated with emerging technologies and tools in health data engineering to enhance system efficiency.
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