Abacus Insights is expanding what we do for health plans, and we’re looking for a Forward Deployed Data Engineer to help us do it. As we launch new and expanded service offerings, we’re putting multidisciplinary teams directly alongside our clients—pairing healthcare subject matter experts, AI and product engineers, and forward-deployed data engineers, each bringing a distinct and essential skill set—to solve their hardest data challenges and deliver value faster than ever. This is a chance to be part of that build from the start.

This role sits at the intersection of senior data engineering, client consulting, and payer data expertise.

Note: This role requires travel to and from client sites, estimated at around 25%.

Design and implement data models, ETL/ELT pipelines, and integrations that bring client payer data into governed, analytics-ready foundations, with a particular focus on Snowflake

Translate business requirements into scalable technical designs, from ingestion and standardization through analytics-ready data products

Serve as a trusted technical advisor to client data, IT, and business stakeholders, including senior leaders, and work on-site with clients as engagements require

Lead discovery sessions and workshops, gather requirements, and bring structure to open-ended problems

Communicate technical tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

Work with core payer datasets—claims, eligibility, member, provider, encounter, and care management data—and advise clients on data quality, mapping, and integration approaches across commercial, government, and other lines of business

Navigate healthcare interoperability standards and exchange patterns, including FHIR, HL7, EDI, and APIs

Partner closely with the healthcare SME, AI/product engineer, and core delivery teams on every engagement

Preserve and apply Abacus data-modeling standards and best practices across client work

Forward Deployed Data Engineer

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