Summary
Location
Atlanta, Nashville
Salary
$113k - $181k
Type
full-time
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About this role
Inovalon was founded in 1998 on the belief that technology, and data specifically, would empower the transformation of the entire healthcare ecosystem for the better, improving both outcomes and economics. At Inovalon, we believe that when our customers are successful in their missions, healthcare improves. Therefore, we focus on empowering them with data-driven solutions. And the momentum is building.
Together, as ONE Inovalon, we are a united force delivering solutions that address healthcare’s greatest needs. Through our mission-based culture of inclusion and innovation, our organization brings value not just to our customers, but to the millions of patients and members they serve.
Overview: The Staff Software Data will build and operate large-scale ingestion and transformation pipelines that power our enterprise data platform. You’ll own end-to-end delivery of batch + CDC pipelines into Snowflake, with strong operational maturity (quality, reliability, cost, observability).
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and support production ingestion pipelines (batch + incremental + CDC) using AWS services and orchestration frameworks.
- Design systems that operate reliably at scale, supporting high-volume ingestion and multi‑tenant workloads
- Build repeatable patterns for schema evolution, idempotency, deduplication, late-arriving data handling, backfills, and replay.
- Implement Snowflake-side patterns: Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, stored procedures, warehouse sizing, query tuning, and cost controls.
- Define and enforce data contracts and data quality gates (validation rules, reconciliation, anomaly detection, auditability).
- Drive operational excellence: dashboards, alerts, runbooks, incident analysis, and continuous improvements to reduce reruns and MTTR.
- Collaborate with platform engineers to standardize onboarding patterns and create reusable framework components for teams adopting Data Platform.
- Adhere to all confidentiality, HIPAA, regulatory, and other such policies, procedures, and requirements as outlined within Employer’s Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the scope of work.
- Maintain compliance with Inovalon’s policies, procedures and mission statement, and fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success.
- On Call Policy: Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical issues, including outside standard business hours (evenings, weekends, and holidays), ensuring timely response and resolution as per defined SLAs.
Job Requirements:
- 8–15 years in data engineering / data platform roles shipping production-grade pipelines.
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- SQL (advanced) + performance-oriented data modeling
- Python (pipeline logic, automation; FastAPI is a plus)
- Airflow (or equivalent orchestration) including retries/backfills and dependency patterns
- Snowflake (query optimization, tasks/streams, Snowpipe, stored procedures)
- CDC / incremental loading patterns and operational handling of real-world edge cases
- AWS: S3, MWAA, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, EMR (plus IAM basics)
- Experience operating systems at scale with clear ownership, reliability mindset, and strong documentation.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
- Sedentary work (i.e. sitting for long periods of time).
- Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force.
- Subject to inside environmental conditions.
- Travel for this position will include less than 10% locally usually for training purposes.
Inovalon Offers a Competitive Salary and Benefits Package
In addition to the base compensation, this position may be eligible for performance-based incentives.
The actual base pay offered may vary depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity. At Inovalon, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.
Inovalon invests in associates to help them stay healthy, save for long-term financial goals, and manage the demands of work and personal commitments. That’s why Inovalon offers a valuable benefits package with a wide range of choices to meet associate needs, which may include health insurance, life insurance, company-paid disability, 401k, 18+ days of paid time off, and more.
This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship (e.g. H-1B, TN, or E-3). Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States as a condition of employment. (This is only applicable for US-based positions)
If you don’t meet every qualification listed but are excited about our mission and the work described, we encourage you to apply. Inovalon is most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and you may be just the right person for this or other roles.
By embracing inclusion, we enhance our work environment and drive business success. Inovalon strives to provide equal opportunities to the communities where we operate and to our clients and everyone whom we serve. We endeavor to create a culture of inclusion in which our associates feel empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work and pursue their professional goals in an equitable setting. We understand that by fostering this type of culture, and welcoming different perspectives, we generate innovation and growth.
Inovalon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirement.
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Other facts
About Inovalon
Inovalon empowers customers to improve clinical outcomes and economics across healthcare. We do this with data-driven, cloud-based SaaS solutions powered by the most broadly used cloud platform in U.S. healthcare, the Inovalon ONE® Platform.
This platform brings together national-scale connectivity, the largest primary source dataset in the nation, decades of healthcare and technology experience, and advanced analytics to help customers inform, accelerate, and improve patient care and healthcare economics.
Our analytics and capabilities are used by over 50,000 active, licensed customers, and are informed by the primary source data of more than 92 billion medical events across 1.1 million physicians, 706,000 clinical settings, and 416 million unique lives.
We work with:
• 15 of the top 15 U.S. health plans
• All top 25 U.S. healthcare provider systems
• 8 of the top 15 global pharmaceutical companies
• 3 of the top 10 specialty pharmacy companies
From payers and providers to pharmacy organizations and life sciences companies, anyone in healthcare can benefit from the powerful capabilities of the Inovalon ONE Platform.
What you'll do
- The Staff Data Engineer will design, build, and support production ingestion pipelines using AWS services and orchestration frameworks. They will also drive operational excellence and collaborate with platform engineers to standardize onboarding patterns.
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