Sr. Healthcare Data Engineer

Job Description

Senior Healthcare Data Engineering Consultant:
On behalf of our healthcare client, Procom is searching for a Senior Healthcare Data Engineering Consultant for a 6 month plus remote contract role. Client is based in the Chicago, IL area .

Senior Healthcare Data Engineering Consultant - Job Description:
Our client is seeking a senior, hands-on Healthcare Data Engineering Consultant to design, build, and operationalize secure clinical-data de-identification workflows. This involves working with Epic-sourced healthcare data and collaborating closely with various stakeholders to deliver dependable, secure, and well-documented data pipelines.

Senior Healthcare Data Engineering Consultant - Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support end-to-end data pipelines in Microsoft Fabric using Python and SQL.
• Work with Epic-sourced clinical data, including structured records, flowsheets, and clinical notes.
• Implement approved de-identification controls such as identifier transformation, patient-consistent pseudonymization, and date shifting.
• Translate transformation requirements into reproducible, version-controlled workflows with effective exception handling.
• Develop validation checks for data completeness, referential integrity, and patient linkage.
• Build monitoring, error-handling, audit-logging, and operational-support processes.
• Profile source data, identify privacy and data-quality risks, and recommend remediation approaches.
• Produce architecture diagrams, implementation documentation, validation results, and production-support runbooks.
• Troubleshoot complex pipeline and data-quality issues.
• Communicate risks, dependencies, progress, and timelines clearly to stakeholders.
• Represent the data-engineering workstream in discussions with clinical, privacy, security, vendor, and business teams.

Senior Healthcare Data Engineering Consultant - Mandatory Skills:
• Three or more years of relevant experience in data engineering, healthcare-data integration, or analytics-platform development.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, Python, and SQL.
• Demonstrated experience working with Epic data or Epic reporting and integration environments.
• Working knowledge of healthcare-data de-identification concepts.
• Experience building production-quality data pipelines.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Clear technical-writing and stakeholder-communication abilities.

Senior Healthcare Data Engineering Consultant – Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Experience with Azure data services, Spark or PySpark, and lakehouse or Delta data architectures.
• Familiarity with clinical data formats and interfaces, including HL7, CDA/CCDA, or FHIR.
• Experience processing clinical free text or working with clinical NLP and de-identification tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, or a related field.

Senior Healthcare Data Engineering Consultant – Assignment Length:
Expected to be a 6 month plus contract with possible extensions.

Senior Healthcare Data Engineering Consultant - Start Date:
ASAP.

Senior Healthcare Data Engineering Consultant - Assignment Location:
Remote in the US with the client located in Chicago, Illinois area.