About the Position

Newfire Global Partners is a healthcare technology consultancy. Our clients are health systems, payers, digital health companies, and clinical services organizations - and nearly all of them are navigating complex data engineering challenges around claims, clinical records, and analytics infrastructure.

This role builds and leads Newfire's clinical data engineering capability. You'll be responsible for evolving our approach to healthcare data architecture, developing reusable patterns for the data engineering problems our clients face, and ensuring Newfire can credibly lead work involving claims data, EHR data access, and analytics pipelines. You'll work closely with our strategic consulting and commercial teams to identify opportunities where data engineering expertise creates client value, and you'll step into engagements to provide technical leadership when the situation calls for it.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve Newfire's approach to clinical and claims data engineering.
Establish best practices, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.
Lead a data engineering team that builds and operates pipelines on behalf of clients.
Bring deep expertise in how healthcare data is accessed and structured in practice.
Stay close to the work, reviewing architectures, debugging pipeline issues, and evaluating new tools.
Work with strategic consulting and commercial leadership to identify where data engineering creates opportunities.
Step into client engagements to provide data architecture guidance, assess existing data infrastructure, or lead technical design.
Build and develop data engineering talent at Newfire.
Integrate AI and modern data practices into Newfire's approach.

Requirements

Deep healthcare data domain expertise. You've worked extensively with claims and eligibility data and clinical/EHR data.
Technically hands-on. You can build a data pipeline front to back and are fluent in modern data platforms.
Practice leadership, not just technical delivery. You've built data engineering capability at an organizational level.
Consulting or multi-client experience. You've worked across multiple healthcare organizations.
Commercial instinct. You can recognize where data engineering expertise creates business value for a client.
Pragmatic modernizer. You have strong opinions on modern data stack and cloud-native architecture.
AI fluency. Working understanding of how AI intersects with data engineering in healthcare.

We Offer

Competitive salary of $229,000 - $280,000 with a 15% target bonus.
Comprehensive benefits package including 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, as well as company equipment for all new full-time US-based remote employees.

About the Company

Newfire Global is committed to consistent compensation practices across our organization. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Kirk Van Noord

Recruiter

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Hiring Process

Applied
Recruiter Interview
Hiring Manager Interview
Second Hiring Manager Interview
Panel Interview
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