Data Engineer

Frontier Direct Care

Data Engineer designing and operating data pipelines for healthcare data ecosystem. Working within a regulated environment ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance.

Posted 6/16/2026full-timeTX • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowApacheCloudPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and maintain Apache Airflow DAGs to orchestrate ELT pipelines at scale across healthcare data sources including EHR feeds and EDI transactions
Build and maintain dbt models that transform raw data into well-documented, tested, and business-ready data mart layers ready for consumption by business analytics users
Implement and enforce data quality checks, lineage documentation, and data contracts; contribute to cataloging and stewardship practices that satisfy HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II requirements
Ingest and normalize data from FHIR APIs, HL7 feeds, and EDI 837/835 sources; ensure PHI is handled, masked, and audited in compliance with applicable regulations
Contribute to data infrastructure — dataset management, data-mart patterns, IAM policies, and pipeline observability
Partner with analytics, clinical, and product teams to define data models and deliver data products that support reporting and operational workflows

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum 3 years of experience in a data engineering role
Proficiency in Python for pipeline development
Hands-on experience authoring and maintaining Apache Airflow DAGs
Experience building transformation layers with dbt (models, tests, documentation)
Strong SQL skills with experience in a cloud data warehouse
Working knowledge of HIPAA requirements as they apply to data pipelines — PHI classification, encryption at rest and in transit, access control, and audit logging
Familiarity with ELT patterns and modern data stack principles

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Frontier Membership for you and your immediate family
Voluntary insurance: short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance, and other supplemental insurances
401(k) plan: Free access to financial wellness platforms that provide financial advisors + personal finance tools
Enjoy our Paid Time Off (PTO) policy. Within this benefit, we include up to 5 unplanned days off per year
9 additional company holidays
Parental leave policies

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonApache AirflowdbtSQLdata engineeringdata quality checksdata lineage documentationdata contractsdata normalizationdata ingestion