[Remote] Sr. Director, Clinical Data Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Newfire Global Partners is a healthcare technology consultancy that addresses complex data engineering challenges for health systems, payers, and clinical services organizations. The role of Sr. Director, Clinical Data Engineering involves leading the clinical data engineering capability, evolving healthcare data architecture, and ensuring the delivery of technical leadership in client engagements.ResponsibilitiesDefine and evolve Newfire's approach to clinical and claims data engineeringEstablish best practices, reference architectures, and reusable patterns — data lake and warehouse design, ETL/ELT pipelines, data quality and governance frameworks, and analytics-ready data models for healthcare use casesLead a data engineering team that builds and operates pipelines on behalf of clients — both analytics workloads (population health, quality measures, reporting) and transactional pipelines (claims processing, eligibility, real-time data flows)Own the technical quality and reliability of this workBring deep expertise in how healthcare data is accessed and structured in practice — Epic Clarity and Caboodle, FHIR APIs, claims and eligibility data (EDI, 837/835, ICD-10, CPT/HCPCS, payer adjudication, risk adjustment)Stay close to the work. Review architectures, debug pipeline issues, evaluate new toolsWork with strategic consulting and commercial leadership to identify where data engineering creates opportunities — in active engagements, in proposals, and in how we position capabilities to the marketStep into client engagements to provide data architecture guidance, assess existing data infrastructure, or lead technical design when the engagement requires senior data engineering judgmentBuild and develop data engineering talent at Newfire — identifying skill gaps, mentoring engineers, and shaping how we recruit for data engineering capabilityBring a current perspective on where AI capabilities are production-ready and integrate them into Newfire's approach where they add real valueSkillsDeep healthcare data domain expertiseTechnically hands-onPractice leadership, not just technical deliveryConsulting or multi-client experienceCommercial instinctPragmatic modernizerAI fluencyBenefits15% target bonusMedical, dental & vision coverageHealth spending accountsVoluntary benefitsLeave of absence policiesEmployee Assistance Program401(k) program with employer contributionFlexible work schedules and time-off policyCompany equipment for all new full-time US-based remote employeesCompany OverviewNewfire is a partner in software development and company building. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.newfireglobal.com/.