Sr. Data Engineer (Remote)

The Senior Data Engineer will build and own the data foundation / data ecosystem that Vision will leverage for business analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications. This includes working with key vendors to set up a data lake of the Practice’s data from various key systems, building and maintaining the connections that feed the database, and maintaining the code and tables to transform the data into a data warehouse. This role sits in Operations, but will work closely with IT and other departments., * Data Modeling & Transformation: Build clean, scalable, and reusable data models that act as a single source of truth for the company

• Pipeline Development: Design and manage Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) or Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) pipelines to automate data flows
• Quality Assurance: Implement data testing, anomaly detection, and validation checks to ensure high data integrity
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with operational leaders and future analytics hires to define metrics and maintain data dictionaries
• Vendor Management: Manage the PACS API relationship and evaluate, select, and manage data warehouse and tooling vendors in partnership with IT
• Integrate our PACS through a direct API and change-data-capture, replacing today’s manual CSV export and Excel macro
• Build reliability in from day one: monitoring, alerting, data-quality checks, refresh SLAs, and documentation
• Handle PHI responsibly - access controls, de-identification where appropriate, and audit - in partnership with IT and the CIO
• Feed downstream reporting and applications (billing, payroll, dashboards), and prepare the layer for forecasting and the matching / optimization engine
• Own data systems end to end: build it, keep it running, and iteratively make it better
• Other related responsibilities as assigned, * A direct API and change-data-capture feed from the PACS is live, replacing the manual CSV export and Excel macro
• A governed, documented data warehouse serves billing, payroll, and operational dashboard reporting as the single source of truth
• Monitoring, alerting, and data-quality checks run automatically against defined refresh SLAs
• The data layer is ready to support forecasting and the radiologist supply-demand matching and optimization engine

• 5+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering, owning pipelines and data models in production
• Strong SQL and data modeling (dimensional / data-warehouse design)
• ELT / ETL plus streaming or change-data-capture, and workflow orchestration
• Bachelor’s degree: Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python
• Hands-on production experience with a cloud data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Postgres at scale)
• API integration experience - pulling, reconciling, and maintaining data from third-party systems
• A high-reliability mindset: data quality, observability, and documentation as defaults
• Comfort as a founding builder - high autonomy, end-to-end ownership, pragmatic about trade-offs
• Occasional travel required

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience with HL-7 and/or FHIR
• Experience with DICOM metadata
• Experience with data transformation tools (e.g., dbt Labs)
• Skill sets dealing with unstructured data for ML/AI (e.g.,report text, clinical history, LLMs) for us to train models on
• Familiarity with Git, continuous integration, and data documentation
• Ability to connect and optimize datasets for visualization and BI platforms like Tableau, Looker, or Power BI
• Ability to translate complex technical data models into strategic business insights
• Experience with streaming architectures and event brokers (e.g., Apache Kafka, Azure event hubs)
• Experience working with PHI in a HIPAA-regulated environment

Pulled from the full job description

• Paid parental leave
• Parental leave
• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Dental insurance, Compensation: $150,000-$175,000 total compensation, including base salary plus performance bonus, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

COMPANY BENEFITS

• 401(k) employer matching
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance (including additional ancillary benefits)
• FSA or HSA
• Unlimited Paid Time Off Policy
• Paid Parental Leave
• Variety of company perk programs (i.e., health & wellness, learning & development, etc.)

Vision Radiology was founded in 2003 by several radiology alumni from The Johns Hopkins University who shared the core values of dedication to diagnostic radiology and a commitment to patient welfare. Our mission from day one has been to set the highest standards of quality, timeliness, and client service in the practice of radiology.