Senior Data Engineer -Healthcare Domain

Kerner Norland
India

Lead Data Engineer

Broad areas of responsibility:

  • Own and evolve the enterprise data architecture supporting operational, analytical, and AI workloads.
  • Design scalable data platforms for transactional databases, analytical data warehouses/lakehouses, and AI/ML data pipelines.
  • Define data models, integration standards, metadata management, and data lifecycle strategies.
  • Establish best practices for data engineering, architecture, performance optimization, scalability, reliability, and maintainability

.• Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies and architectural improvements.

  • Design and maintain data platforms supporting Business Intelligence, advanced analytics, and machine learning workloads.
  • Build data pipelines that enable AI/ML model training, feature engineering, vector databases, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and LLM/SLM applications.
  • Design, develop, and optimize robust ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
  • Build reliable batch and real-time data integration pipelines from EHRs, Practice Management Systems, APIs, flat files, and third-party healthcare applications.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Data Engineers.
  • Conduct code reviews, architecture reviews, and technical design discussions.

Personal Profile:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
  • 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Data Architecture.
  • Experience with Apache NiFi, Airflow, dbt, Spark, Kafka, or equivalent modern data engineering tools.
  • Experience with Power BI or other enterprise BI platforms.
  • Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
  • Experience implementing data platforms for AI/ML and Generative AI workloads.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices.
  • Experience with containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes)

Location: IND

Shift (IST time): Straddle 3:00 PM – 12:00 PM

Work Week: Monday to Friday Full-time

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