Senior FHIR Data Platform Engineer (Remote)

About the role

A 100% remote Senior FHIR Data Platform Engineer is sought to support a large federal government healthcare modernization project. The role optimizes and maintains the HAPI FHIR data platform, focusing on PostgreSQL performance, FHIR resource indexing, data quality, Master Data Management (MDM) and healthcare data reporting. It also covers FHIR-based quality measurement services, HEDIS reporting and large-scale healthcare datasets. The engineer works closely with cloud platform engineers, data engineers, architects and interoperability teams. Candidates must live in the continental US.

Key responsibilities

• Optimize the HAPI FHIR JPA persistence layer in PostgreSQL, including search parameters, indexes, partitioning, reindexing, resource expunge and history policies, bulk data export and asynchronous MDM link tables.
• Design and run FHIR data quality checks such as US Core STU 9 conformance, duplicate and orphaned references and source-event precedence.
• Develop and maintain measure-reporting services for digital quality measurement engines and HEDIS baselines, including facility and statewide reporting and DHHS monthly exports.
• Query OMOP Common Data Model and Apache Iceberg data marts for reporting and help transform healthcare data into OMOP when FHIR changes affect downstream datasets.
• Produce capacity planning and performance evidence for 99.9% availability, 15-minute RPO and 4-hour RTO.
• Support cloud platform engineers with Aurora PostgreSQL sizing, read replicas, backups and performance tuning, and deliver migration scripts, runbooks, dashboards and test suites.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering or a related field.
• 7+ years of professional PostgreSQL experience in production environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with HAPI FHIR JPA server internals, FHIR R4 and US Core.
• Working knowledge of OMOP CDM v5.4 and experience writing analytical SQL.
• Experience building healthcare quality reporting solutions using FHIR measures, CQL, FHIR Measure/MeasureReport, HEDIS or similar standards.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance; U.S. citizenship and a successful background check are required.

Required skills

• PostgreSQL query planning, index design, partitioning and performance troubleshooting.
• Java 21, Spring Boot, Flyway and Git; extending HAPI FHIR interceptors and measure-reporting services.
• Nice to have: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, OpenSearch, Grafana, OHDSI tools (Achilles, DQD), Medicaid/HIE/VA data modernization experience, Epic/Meditech/Oracle Health/athenahealth data extracts, and high-availability database architecture.

What we offer

• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• 401k with employer match.
• PTO and federal holidays.
• Corporate laptop and training opportunities.