Vector Health · 5 months ago
Data Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expVector Health helps rural hospitals unlock financial aid for their patients through a scalable healthcare infrastructure product. They are seeking a Data Platform Engineer to take ownership of the data backbone of their product, focusing on building data pipelines and ensuring data quality and compliance while collaborating with full stack engineers.
Hospital & Health Care
Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end data platform: ingestion pipelines, transformations, models, and analytics
Build scalable, HIPAA-compliant ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, SQL, and AWS services
Design and maintain data models and schemas that power both product features and reporting
Write and optimize queries, metrics, and dashboards to support hospitals and internal teams
Develop data validation and monitoring systems to ensure reliability and trustworthiness
Collaborate with full stack engineers to integrate pipelines and analytics into our Laravel/Vue product
Contribute directly to the product codebase where data systems intersect with APIs and UI features
Translate operational needs into data-driven features that scale with our customers
Participate in architectural discussions on performance, scalability, and security
Qualification
Required
2–5 years of professional experience in data engineering, analytics, or software engineering
Strong Python skills for data processing, pipelines, and automation
Deep knowledge of SQL and database query optimization
Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines, schemas, and ETL workflows
Familiarity with backend frameworks (Laravel/PHP, Node, or similar) and willingness to work across the stack
Understanding of cloud environments (AWS preferred) and version control (Git)
Comfortable working in a fast-moving, collaborative, early-stage environment
Preferred
Experience with healthcare data (FHIR, HL7)
Familiarity with data lakes, warehouses, or BI tools
Applied statistics or ML experience to extract insights from patient/hospital data
Exposure to DevOps practices for data (CI/CD, monitoring, infrastructure as code)
Company
Vector Health
Vector Health is a platform connecting healthcare teams, nonprofits, and patients in need of financial aid.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase