Clinical Data Engineer - Informatics, Python, SQL

Job Description:

Paradigm is rebuilding the clinical research ecosystem by enabling equitable access to trials for all patients. Our platform enhances trial efficiency and reduces the barriers to participation for healthcare providers. Incubated by ARCH Venture Partners and backed by leading healthcare and life sciences investors, Paradigm’s seamless infrastructure implemented at healthcare provider organizations, will bring potentially life-saving therapies to patients faster.

Our team hails from a broad range of disciplines and is committed to the company’s mission to create equitable access to clinical trials for any patient, anywhere. Join us, and bring your expertise, passion, creativity, and drive as we work together to realize this mission.

The data engineering team at Paradigm is dedicated to constructing the infrastructure for clinical care data. We ingest data from multiple data sources: Electronic Health Records, Lab providers, Health Information Exchanges (and more). We enrich, harmonize and make it available for multiple consumers and product verticals. As our population, research and health system footprint grows we will scale our architecture to support parallel data processing. 

We are seeking a Clinical Data Engineer to partner with our implementation and customer success team to build and manage our ingestions and integrations with our customers from project planning to go live. In this role, you’ll heavily focus on integrating clinical data into our data pipelines and ensuring the data is formatted correctly for use by our application and LLMs.  You’ll also build data quality tools to automate the process of translating the data into our data warehouse.

What you’ll do:

• Integrate data feeds from various healthcare data providers
• Analyze incoming healthcare data, ensure that the data meets clinical specifications
• Write new SQL based pipelines to bring patient data into our platform
• Troubleshoot existing pipelines using AWS services (Athena, Glue, S3), Databricks,  Datadog
• Improving pipelines to ensure they meet a high data quality standard.
• Use DBT to automate the transformation of clinical data
• Create tools and processes to facilitate data accessibility across products and data consumers
• Cultivate expertise on various datasets and tooling within the organization

What you’ll bring:

• 4+ Years of experience working with clinical data in various formats (HL7, FHIR, etc.)
• Understanding of standard clinical terminologies (ex. ICD10, ICD O-3, RxNorm, ATC, etc.)
• Curiosity about datasets and what makes high quality data
• General understanding of ETL best practices, data quality
• A strong knowledge of SQL 
• Experience working with python and pyspark
• Experience with DBT, airflow, dagster or similar technologies a plus
• Exposure to data warehouse systems.  We use Databricks at Paradigm
• Curious - you look at your work beyond the surface, and care about why and how things work
• Get Stuff Done - Say what you will do, and do that.  Deliver work timely and reliably.
• Growth Mindset - Believe in potential, embrace challenges, learn from mistakes.
• Teachable - Willing to learn from anyone and want to teach others
• Respectful - All viewpoints are valuable - we listen and provide appropriate feedback
• Collaborative - Prioritizes unblocking teammates, users, stakeholders
• Strong ability to learn new technologies

What You’ll Receive:
Paradigm Health offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package to support your well-being and success, including:

• Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Mental health support for you and your family through Spring Health
• Equity package
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible work options – remote and hybrid arrangements
• Company-paid life insurance
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage
• One Medical membership
• 401(k) plan with company match

At Paradigm, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. We encourage and welcome candidates from all backgrounds and perspectives to apply for our open positions. We are interested in all qualified individuals and  ensure that all employment decisions are based on job-related factors such as skills, experience, and qualifications.

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