Role description

Data Platform Engineer -Cloud & Data Engineer

Salary$180,000–$200,000

LocationUS

Posted11/10/2026

ELLKAY started out providing connectivity solutions to laboratories and within a few years, grew to also provide data management solutions to ambulatory organizations. ELLKAY is now a trusted data management partner in five healthcare segments. ELLKAY’s solutions continue to serve laboratories and ambulatory practices and have expanded to empower hospitals and health systems, healthcare IT vendors, ambulatory practices, health plans, and other healthcare organizations with cutting-edge technologies and solutions that drive their growth and interoperability strategies.

Today, ELLKAY remains true to our core values, building strong partner relationships and offering unparalleled service and support while providing innovative, scalable solutions to the challenges our customers face in today’s data-rich world.

ELLKAY's experience, customer-focused approach, and reputation for innovation, speed, and accuracy differentiate ELLKAY as a premier partner for your interoperability needs and data management strategy.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Build reusable ingestion pipelines and connectors for files, relational databases, and APIs.
Develop transformation and source-to-target mapping components for shared data models.
Implement schema validation, data profiling, quality checks, and source-to-target reconciliation.
Build workflow orchestration with dependency management, retries, checkpoints, and controlled reprocessing.
Develop backend services and APIs for processing requests, execution status, and delivery integration.
Implement cloud storage and processing patterns for raw, staged, curated, and archived data.
Add logging, lineage, metrics, alerts, and audit evidence to support troubleshooting and operational reporting.
Improve pipeline performance, infrastructure utilization, and processing costs.
Collaborate with architects, DME, QA, security, and product teams to deliver production-ready components.
Maintain automated tests, deployment pipelines, technical documentation, and operational runbooks.

Qualifications

Proficiency in Python and SQL.
Experience developing production data pipelines and integrating databases, files, or APIs.
Experience with a major cloud platform, preferably AWS.
Understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT, orchestration, and data quality.
Experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and production troubleshooting.

Preferred Skills

Snowflake, Spark, lakehouse technologies, or large-scale data processing.
Infrastructure as code, containers, and event-driven architectures.
Healthcare data migration, HL7/FHIR, clinical data mapping, or archival systems.

Benefits:

ELLKAY offers a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that starts day one!

Including:

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
Employer-paid Life and LTD
401k w/ matching – once eligibility is met
Work/life balance
Paid Volunteer Program
Flexible working hours
Generous FTO
Remote work options
Employee Discounts
Parental Leave

Our awesome culture includes:

Working with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do
Professional growth within
Innovation environment
On site in HQ Free daily lunches

Additional information

At ELLKAY, we are committed to operating as a hybrid workplace, offering employees flexibility in how they structure their time between in-office and remote work. We recognize the significance of fostering connections, collaboration, and creativity within our office culture and its positive impact on our business. Our philosophy of operating as a hybrid workplace underscores our dedication to enabling employees to tailor work-life balance to their individual preferences. For those who do not live within 40 miles of one of our offices, we are open to considering remote work for candidates whose skills and experience strongly align with the role. While we prioritize a hybrid work environment for most roles, we understand the importance of flexibility and are open to remote work for specific positions and specialized skill sets.

For more information on our company, visit www.ELLKAY.com.

ELLKAY LLC is a Smoke-Free Workplace.

ELLKAY, LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Compensation Range: $180,000.00-$200,000.00

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ELLKAY

One partner, every layer. Orchestrating healthcare's interfaces, networks, and data for 20+ years.

Every healthcare organization runs on 40+ vendors. Each one owns a single piece, an interface, an archive, a lab connection, then hands off the moment their part is done. When something breaks in between, whose job is it? Usually whoever’s left holding it. ELLKAY isn't another vendor in that lineup. For 20+ years, we've stayed accountable for the whole thing, not just one layer of it, so hospitals, laboratories, payers, and health IT companies have one partner instead of a dozen vendors to coordinate. Today, that's 95,000+ interfaces running under our SLA. 750+ EHR systems connected across 1,100+ versions. 58,000+ practices reached. 4,000+ reusable templates behind every one of them. Connectivity got healthcare this far. Orchestration is what takes it further, deciding whether an AI investment, a migration, or a new integration actually delivers, or stalls at the data layer. We call it the Healthcare Data Orchestration Platform. Through our exclusive role with CommonWell Healt

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