Job Description
Role Description
The Healthcare Data Integration Lead is responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of external healthcare data integrations. This role owns the technical implementation and day-to-day operation of data exchanges with Third-Party Administrators (TPAs), provider networks, and other healthcare partners.
The Healthcare Data Integration Lead is responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of external healthcare data integrations. This role owns the technical implementation and day-to-day operation of data exchanges with Third-Party Administrators (TPAs), provider networks, and other healthcare partners.
You will define and manage external data contracts, maintain partner-specific file and API specifications, translate external data into canonical data model, and ensure timely, accurate, and reliable delivery of data to internal consumers including Engineering, Operations, Analytics, Clinical, and Machine Learning teams.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining software engineering, data integration, and partner collaboration, with a clear growth path toward leading the Data Integration function.
Responsibilities
- Own technical integrations with TPAs, provider networks, and other external healthcare partners.
- Own the ingestion, lifecycle, and governance of provider, network, and reference data used across the platform.
- Define, maintain, and version partner integration specifications, including file layouts, APIs, schemas, and data contracts.
- Lead onboarding of new partners and manage changes to existing integrations while minimizing downstream impact.
- Collaborate directly with partner technical teams to troubleshoot and resolve production data exchange issues.
- Ensure reliable, secure, and timely delivery of healthcare data across all integrations.
Canonical Data & Integration Engineering
- Design and maintain mappings from partner-specific formats into canonical data model.
- Define reusable integration patterns for file-based, API-based, and event-driven data exchange.
- Build and enhance ingestion services supporting validation, transformation, reconciliation, and processing workflows.
- Maintain backward compatibility as partner formats and business requirements evolve.
- Collaborate with Engineering teams to ensure internal consumers receive consistent, well-defined data.
Data Operations & Reliability
- Operate and support production ingestion pipelines for external healthcare data.
- Monitor integration health, data quality, and delivery SLAs.
- Implement validation, reconciliation, duplicate detection, and error recovery processes.
- Perform root cause analysis for production integration issues and coordinate resolution with internal teams and external partners.
- Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks.
Data Quality & Governance
- Establish standards for external data quality, validation, and canonical mapping.
- Ensure incoming data is complete, accurate, and consistent before being consumed by downstream systems.
- Partner with Operations, Analytics, Clinical, and Product teams to continuously improve data quality.
- Ensure all integrations comply with HIPAA and applicable healthcare data regulations.
- Deliver trusted, standardized datasets that enable Operations, Engineering, Analytics, and Machine Learning teams.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for healthcare data integrations.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Operations, Analytics, and external organizations to define integration priorities and resolve complex data challenges.
- Mentor engineers and promote best practices in integration engineering and operational excellence.
- Contribute to hiring, process improvements, and the evolution of the Data Integration function.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5–7+ years of experience in healthcare integration engineering, backend engineering, data engineering, or similar roles.
- Experience designing, implementing, and operating partner integrations using file-based (CSV, JSON, XML) and API-based data exchanges.
- Strong experience with data ingestion, transformation (ETL/ELT), canonical data modeling, and validation frameworks to ensure accurate and reliable data exchange.
- Experience operating production data pipelines with a focus on reliability, observability, and troubleshooting.
- Experience defining integration contracts and collaborating directly with external partners.
- Strong SQL and AWS experience (S3, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, Glue).
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Compensation: $70.00 - $90.00 per hour
Decca Recruiting’s strength in IT staffing is our agility and more than 50 years of combined IT staffing and project management experience of our key management personnel.
Our Agility comes with our ability to streamline and simplify tasks to avoid complexity and increase efficiency.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Santa Clara, California |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2007 |
| Website | http://www.deccaconsulting.com |
About Company
At Decca Consulting, we believe that success begins with exceeding our clients’ expectations in both service and advice. Our target is to establish a long-term, trusted relationship with each of our clients, by continually providing staffing solutions that meet each organization’s unique needs.
Founded in 2006, Decca Consulting has more than 50 years combined experience in staffing solutions. We believe in these three steps to successful staffing:
- Find the Best-Fit Talent
- Deliver on time
- Follow through with onsite support
Our Mission: With a focus on timely delivery of the best candidates for the job, Decca Consulting is proud to serve the unique staffing needs of the gas and oil industry through targeted solutions and onsite support.
Our Specialty: Providing IT/Engineering staffing solutions for the gas and oil industry, delivering exceptional candidates experienced in the information technology arm that serves the ever-expanding world of the gas and oil industry. With more than a decade of experience in solving the unique staffing needs for the gas and oil industry, we are primed to meet the challenge of sourcing the right candidate in a timely, professional manner.
A Step Beyond: Because of the trusted connection developed with our long-time, satisfied gas and oil clients, they asked for our assistance in sourcing the right candidates throughout their companies. So, we’ve expanded our services to provide staffing solutions beyond the realm of IT.
Skills
- AWS Lambdaunmatched
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)unmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Contract Managementunmatched
- Customer/Client Researchunmatched
- Data Formatsunmatched
- Data Managementunmatched
- Data Modelingunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL)unmatched
- Error Recoveryunmatched
- HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)unmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Healthcare Providersunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- JSONunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Machine Learningunmatched
- Medical Productsunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Model Validationunmatched
- Multiplatform/Cross-Platformunmatched
- Onboardingunmatched
- Operational Auditunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Reconciliationunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Service Level Agreement (SLA)unmatched
- Simple Queue Service (SQS)unmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical Recruitingunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Training Data Setsunmatched
- XML (EXtensible Markup Language)unmatched
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