[Remote] Sr. Director, Clinical Data Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Newfire Global Partners is a healthcare technology consultancy that addresses complex data engineering challenges for health systems, payers, and clinical services organizations. The role of Sr. Director, Clinical Data Engineering involves leading the clinical data engineering capability, evolving healthcare data architecture, and ensuring the delivery of technical leadership in client engagements.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Newfire's approach to clinical and claims data engineering
• Establish best practices, reference architectures, and reusable patterns — data lake and warehouse design, ETL/ELT pipelines, data quality and governance frameworks, and analytics-ready data models for healthcare use cases
• Lead a data engineering team that builds and operates pipelines on behalf of clients — both analytics workloads (population health, quality measures, reporting) and transactional pipelines (claims processing, eligibility, real-time data flows)
• Own the technical quality and reliability of this work
• Bring deep expertise in how healthcare data is accessed and structured in practice — Epic Clarity and Caboodle, FHIR APIs, claims and eligibility data (EDI, 837/835, ICD-10, CPT/HCPCS, payer adjudication, risk adjustment)
• Stay close to the work. Review architectures, debug pipeline issues, evaluate new tools
• Work with strategic consulting and commercial leadership to identify where data engineering creates opportunities — in active engagements, in proposals, and in how we position capabilities to the market
• Step into client engagements to provide data architecture guidance, assess existing data infrastructure, or lead technical design when the engagement requires senior data engineering judgment
• Build and develop data engineering talent at Newfire — identifying skill gaps, mentoring engineers, and shaping how we recruit for data engineering capability
• Bring a current perspective on where AI capabilities are production-ready and integrate them into Newfire's approach where they add real value

Skills

• Deep healthcare data domain expertise
• Technically hands-on
• Practice leadership, not just technical delivery
• Consulting or multi-client experience
• Commercial instinct
• Pragmatic modernizer
• AI fluency

Benefits

• 15% target bonus
• Medical, dental & vision coverage
• Health spending accounts
• Voluntary benefits
• Leave of absence policies
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k) program with employer contribution
• Flexible work schedules and time-off policy
• Company equipment for all new full-time US-based remote employees

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