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Altarum · 11 hours ago

Principal Data Engineer – ML Platforms

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$145K/yr - $188K/yr

7+ years exp

Altarum is a nonprofit organization focused on improving public health through innovative data and AI solutions. The Principal Data Engineer – ML Platforms will design and operationalize modern data and ML platform capabilities to support analytics and AI modeling across Altarum divisions.

FinanceHealth CareMarket Research

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Delivery

Design and operate modern, cloud-agnostic lakehouse architecture using object storage, SQL/ELT engines, and dbt

Build CI/CD pipelines for data, dbt, and model delivery (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps)

Implement MLOps systems: MLflow (or equivalent), feature stores, model registry, drift detection, automated testing

Engineer solutions in AWS and AWS GovCloud today, with portability to Azure Gov or GCP

Use Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep) to automate secure deployments

Build scalable ingestion and normalization pipelines for healthcare and public health datasets, including:

FHIR R4 / US Core (strongly preferred)

HL7 v2 (strongly preferred)

Medicaid/Medicare claims & encounters (strongly preferred)

SDOH & geospatial data (preferred)

Survey, mixed-methods, and qualitative data

Create reusable connectors, dbt packages, and data contracts for cross-division use

Publish clean, conformed, metrics-ready tables for Analytics Engineering and BI teams

Support Population Health in turning evaluation and statistical models into pipelines

Define SLOs and alerting; instrument lineage & metadata; ensure ≥95% of data tests pass

Perform performance and cost tuning (partitioning, storage tiers, autoscaling) with guardrails and dashboards

Build production-grade pipelines for risk prediction, forecasting, cost/utilization models, and burden estimation

Develop ML-ready feature engineering workflows and support time-series/outbreak detection models

Integrate ML assets into standardized deployment workflows

Build ingestion and vectorization pipelines for surveys, interviews, and unstructured text

Support RAG systems for synthesis, evaluation, and public health guidance

Enable Palladian Partners with secure, controlled-generation environments

Translate R/Stata/SAS evaluation code into reusable pipelines

Build templates for causal inference workflows (DID, AIPW, CEM, synthetic controls)

Support operationalization of ARA’s applied research methods at scale

Implement Model Card Protocol (MCP) and fairness/explainability tooling (SHAP, LIME)

Ensure compliance with HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, IRB/DUA constraints, and NIST AI RMF standards

Enforce privacy-by-design: tokenization, encryption, least-privilege IAM, and VPC isolation

Develop runbooks, architecture diagrams, repo templates, and accelerator code

Pair with data scientists, analysts, and SMEs to build organizational capability

Provide technical guidance for proposals and client engagements

Qualification

ML Platform EngineeringAWSMLOpsData EngineeringPythonSQLDbtCI/CDInfrastructure-as-CodeSoft Skills

Required

7–10+ years in data engineering, ML platform engineering, or cloud data architecture

Expert in Python, SQL, dbt, and orchestration tools (Airflow, Glue, Step Functions)

Deep experience with AWS + AWS GovCloud

CI/CD and IaC experience (Terraform, CloudFormation)

Familiarity with MLOps tools (MLflow, Sagemaker, Azure ML, Vertex AI)

Ability to operate in regulated environments (HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, IRB)

Preferred

Experience with FHIR, HL7, Medicaid/Medicare claims, and/or SDOH datasets

Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, Synapse

Event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, Event Hubs)

Feature store experience

Observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)

Experience optimizing BI datasets for Power BI

Benefits

Competitive Medical, Dental and Optical plans

Generous Paid Time Off, 8 Company observed holidays plus 3 floating holidays

Tuition Assistance

401K Plan (3% employer contribution plus opportunity for gainsharing)

Life, AD&D & Disability coverage

A flexible work environment

Company

Altarum

Altarum is a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system.

Founded in 1946

Alexandria, Virginia, USA

201-500 employees