Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Business Title Lead Data Engineer, Data Imports and Migrations Role summary: You will help move healthcare data into athenahealth systems with accuracy, consistency, and care. In this remote-US role, you will design and support data import, migration, transformation, and export processes that help practices transition from legacy EHR environments to athenahealth. You will work across sales, product, and operational teams to support reliable data movement, issue resolution, and validation. This position is based remotely in the United States. Team summary: The Data Imports and Migrations team supports customer implementations and data transition efforts by building repeatable, scalable processes for bringing in and transforming legacy healthcare data. The team works closely with product, implementation, engineering, and operations partners to define migration approaches, create ETL routines, validate data quality, and support export activities. The work is focused on delivering dependable data movement that helps customers get started on athenahealth with greater confidence and less disruption. Essential Job Responsibilities: Develop and support ETL workflows that extract, transform, and load data from legacy EHRs systems into athenahealth environments. Write and maintain functions used for data analysis, validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting. Build Python and SQL scripts and utilities that support import, migration, and automation activities. Partner with internal teams to define source-to-target mappings, business rules, and migration requirements. Review inbound and outbound data to identify gaps, defects, and transformation issues. Support interoperability workflows using HL7 and FHIR standards. Perform EHI export-related tasks and validate output for completeness and accuracy. Investigate data issues, document findings, and help drive resolution across teams. Maintain technical documentation for processes, dependencies, and validation steps. Use AI to improve productivity in data analysis and development tasks, while applying human review to confirm accuracy and align outputs to the needs of the work. Additional Job Responsibilities: Contribute to process improvements that increase the scalability and repeatability of migration work. Support testing and validation activities for data import and export processes. Participate in project planning, status updates, and issue triage as needed. Help maintain reusable tools, templates, and standards for migration work. Assist with documentation updates and knowledge sharing across the team. Support coordination across product, implementation, operations, and engineering partners. Help identify opportunities to reduce manual effort through automation and better process design. Expected Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 5+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL, data migration, or a related technical discipline. Experience working with ETL, SQL, and Python. Experience supporting data imports, conversions, migrations, or similar data movement work. Familiarity with HL7 and FHIR interoperability standards. Experience with EHI Export or related healthcare data export workflows preferred. Experience working with healthcare data, healthcare technology, or implementation-focused teams preferred. Ability to analyze data, identify issues, and document technical results clearly. Ability to work effectively in a remote, cross-functional environment. Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills Expected Compensation The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans. About athenahealth Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. Our company culture: Our talented  employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support. Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve. What we can do for you: Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative  workspaces  — some offices even welcome dogs. We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation. In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued. Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity United by our mission and driven by our entrepreneurial spirit, our work at athenahealth is collaborative, transformative, and above all, it’s meaningful. Our employees take pride in using technology and data-driven insights to inspire changes that will make the U.S. healthcare system better for everyone, including your friends, family and maybe even you. Notice to Job Seekers/Job Candidates: Recruitment Fraud Alert Please be aware of questionable job offers that are not affiliated with athenahealth. athenahealth has been made aware of unauthorized career opportunities offered by individuals posing as representatives of larger U.S. companies, including athenahealth. The fictitious jobs are advertised on employment-search websites, such as Indeed.com and Craigslist.com, and prospective employees are required to share their personal and financial information (e.g. credit card, bank information), provide copies of their government-issued identification, and/or send money for application fees, processing charges or work permits. The victims who are told they are "hired" are often instructed to deposit a check (which is later returned as fraudulent) into their own account and to forward overpayment to individuals - usually via wire transfer. Important information for job seekers: athenahealth has a formal application process and we do not request you to interview on a Google Hangout or via text messaging. athenahealth will never request money for the opportunity to apply or work for athenahealth. athenathealth does not require completion of tax forms, bank account or credit card information as part of the recruiting process. If you feel that you have been a victim of such a scam, please send an email to: askhr@athenahealth.com

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5 Aug, 2026

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Senior level
Hybrid
Engineering

Boston MA, United States of America

Hybrid

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