4261- Data Engineer

About the Role
As a Data Engineer at Innovaccer you will be at the heart of our data infrastructure designing building and maintaining the scalable pipelines and platforms that power our AI-driven healthcare solutions across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. You will play a key role in enabling data-driven decision-making for health systems payers and providers directly contributing to better patient outcomes and operational excellence across the Saudi healthcare landscape.

A Day in the Life

• Design develop and maintain robust ETL/ELT data pipelines to ingest transform and deliver healthcare data from multiple source systems.
• Build and optimize scalable data models within cloud data warehouses (Snowflake AWS Redshift or Azure Synapse) to support analytics and reporting.
• Collaborate with data scientists product managers and clinical informatics teams to understand data needs and translate them into reliable data solutions.
• Ensure data quality integrity and governance by implementing testing frameworks validation checks and monitoring alerts across all pipelines.
• Work with healthcare interoperability standards (HL7 FHIR) to integrate clinical and claims data from diverse health systems in the KSA market.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices supporting CI/CD pipelines and automating deployment of data workflows.
• Participate in code reviews architectural discussions and cross-functional sprint planning to ensure delivery of high-quality production-grade data products.
  

What You Need

Knowledge

• Strong understanding of data engineering principles including data modelling warehousing and pipeline architecture.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards such as HL7 FHIR ICD-10 and SNOMED CT.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) and their managed data services.

Abilities

• Ability to write clean efficient and well-documented code in Python and SQL.
• Ability to independently own and deliver data pipeline projects end-to-end from requirements gathering to production deployment.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex data issues and communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Credentials & Experience

• 36 years of hands-on experience in data engineering or a closely related role.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience with distributed processing frameworks such as Apache Spark or Kafka.
• Experience with orchestration tools (Apache Airflow Prefect or similar) to manage complex workflow dependencies.
• Prior experience working in healthcare IT or with clinical/claims datasets is strongly preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Proficiency in dbt (data build tool) for analytics engineering and data transformation workflows.
• Experience with real-time streaming pipelines using Apache Kafka or AWS Kinesis.
• Familiarity with data observability and monitoring tools such as Monte Carlo Great Expectations or similar.
• Understanding of HIPAA PDPL (Saudi Personal Data Protection Law) and data privacy best practices in a healthcare context.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment with cross-functional global teams.
• Knowledge of Arabic language is a plus for stakeholder communication within the KSA market.

We offer competitive benefits to set you up for success in and outside of work.

Heres What We Offer

• Generous Leaves: Enjoy generous leave benefits of up to 40 days.
• Parental Leave: Leverage one of industrys best parental leave policies to spend time with your new addition.
• Health Insurance: We offer comprehensive health insurance to support you and your family covering medical expenses related to illness disease or injury. Extending support to the family members who matter most.
• Care Program: Whether its a celebration or a time of need weve got you covered with care vouchers to mark major life events. Through our Care Vouchers program employees receive thoughtful gestures for significant personal milestones and moments of need.
• Financial Assistance: Life happens and when it does were here to help. Our financial assistance policy offers support through salary advances and personal loans for genuine personal needs ensuring help is there when you need it most.

Innovaccer is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all employees regardless of race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age marital status or veteran status feel valued and empowered.

Disclaimer:

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About Innovaccer

Innovaccer activates the flow of healthcare data empowering providers payers and government organizations to deliver intelligent and connected experiences that advance health outcomes. The Healthcare Intelligence Cloud equips every stakeholder in the patient journey to turn fragmented data into proactive coordinated actions that elevate the quality of care and drive operational performance. Leading healthcare organizations like CommonSpirit Health Atlantic Health and Banner Health trust Innovaccer to integrate a system of intelligence into their existing infrastructure extending the human touch in healthcare. For more information visit .

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