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Healthcare Data Engineer Jobs in Wisconsin (NOW HIRING)

Data Engineer

Madison, WI · On-site

$120K/yr

Committed to our employees and their families, we offer a suite of benefits promoting health and ... We are known for the great care we take with our staff, our agents, and our customers. We are ...

Committed to our employees and their families, we offer a suite of benefits promoting health and ... We are known for the great care we take with our staff, our agents, and our customers. We are ...

Research Data Engineer

Madison, WI · On-site

$82K/yr

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Data Engineer I Job Summary: The Center for Health Disparities Research (CHDR), led by Director Dr ... health care, cultural, social, psychological, physiological, genetic, and cellular factors to ...

Data Engineer

Milwaukee, WI · On-site

$112K - $135K/yr

As a Data Engineer , you will be responsible for implementing and optimizing data pipelines ... Committed to our employees and their families, we offer a suite of benefits promoting health and ...

Data Engineer

Milwaukee, WI · On-site +1

$112K - $135K/yr

As a Data Engineer , you will be responsible for implementing and optimizing data pipelines ... Committed to our employees and their families, we offer a suite of benefits promoting health and ...

Data Engineer

Milwaukee, WI · On-site

$112K - $135K/yr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

... think big, care deeply, and believe in being the difference in their work and community. We ... healthy work-life balance, focusing on personal wellbeing, providing leadership training, and ...

Data Engineer

Madison, WI · On-site +1

$115K - $138K/yr

As a Data Engineer , you will be responsible for implementing and optimizing data pipelines ... Committed to our employees and their families, we offer a suite of benefits promoting health and ...

Data Engineer

Madison, WI · On-site

$115K - $138K/yr

As a Data Engineer , you will be responsible for implementing and optimizing data pipelines ... Committed to our employees and their families, we offer a suite of benefits promoting health and ...

WI · On-site

$83.43 - $222.48/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

At CVS Health ® , you'll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with ... Collaborate with data engineering teams to inform data pipeline development, ensuring clinical data ...

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How much do healthcare data engineer jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 17, 2026, the average yearly pay for healthcare data engineer in Wisconsin is $130,930.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $115,600.00 and $138,800.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a healthcare data engineer?

A Healthcare Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data infrastructure in the healthcare industry. They work with large datasets from electronic health records (EHRs), medical devices, and other sources to ensure data is stored, processed, and accessed efficiently. Their role includes developing data pipelines, ensuring compliance with healthcare data regulations (such as HIPAA), and optimizing data for analytics and machine learning. By enabling secure and efficient data management, Healthcare Data Engineers help improve patient care, streamline operations, and support medical research.

What are some typical projects or challenges a healthcare data engineer might face in their day-to-day work?

As a Healthcare Data Engineer, you may work on projects such as designing data pipelines to aggregate data from multiple EHR systems, ensuring data integrity and security throughout the process. A common challenge in this role is working with complex, sensitive datasets that must remain compliant with healthcare privacy regulations while still being accessible and useful for analysis. You’ll likely collaborate closely with data scientists, clinicians, and IT teams to understand data requirements and optimize system performance. Troubleshooting data quality issues and continuously improving data architecture are regular tasks, making adaptability and continuous learning important for ongoing success.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a healthcare data engineer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Healthcare Data Engineer, you need a solid background in computer science, data modeling, and understanding of healthcare data standards, often supported by a relevant degree and experience with big data technologies. Proficiency in programming languages like SQL, Python or R, knowledge of data warehousing solutions, and familiarity with HIPAA regulations or health information systems are typically required, along with certifications such as AWS Certified Data Analytics or Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA). Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and effective communication skills are highly valued for collaborating with cross-functional teams. These skills are essential for building secure, reliable data systems that support healthcare analytics and ensure regulatory compliance.

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Infographic showing various Healthcare Data Engineer job openings in Wisconsin as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 82% Full Time, 14% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 86% Physical, 4% Hybrid, and 10% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $130,930 per year, or $62.9 per hour.

Staff Data Engineer, Data Platform - IntelliScript (Remote)

Milliman

Brookfield, WI • On-site, Remote

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 7 days ago


Milliman rating

8.5

Company rating: 8.5 out of 10

Based on 7 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz


Job description

What We Do
Milliman IntelliScript is a group of a few hundred experts in fields ranging from actuarial science to information technology to clinical practice. Together, we develop and deploy category-defining, data-driven, software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for a broad spectrum of insurance, health IT and life sciences clients. We are a business unit within Milliman, Inc., a respected consultancy with offices around the world.
IntelliScript attracts top candidates with its innovative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial atmosphere focused on excellence, outstanding customer service, balance, and transparency. Everyone's opinion counts here, and we motivate each other to explore our full and varied potential. Our steady growth means there are ongoing opportunities for you to expand your skills, take on new responsibilities, and advance in your career.
Our team is smart, down-to-earth, and ready to listen to your best ideas. We reward excellence and offer competitive compensation and benefits. Visit our LinkedIn page for a closer look at our company, and learn more about our cultural values here.
Milliman invests in skills training and career development and gives all employees access to a variety of learning and mentoring opportunities. Our growing number of Milliman Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are employee-led communities that influence policy decisions, develop future leaders, and amplify the voices of their constituents. We encourage our employees to give back to their varied professions, including leadership in professional organizations. Please visit our website to learn more about Milliman's commitments to our people, diversity and inclusion, social impact, and sustainability.
What this position entails
IntelliScript's Data has been a key part of our success and is critical to our future. In this position as a Staff Data Engineer of IntelliScript's Data Platform, you will be a trusted advisor across leadership and engineering team, responsible for technical decisions. You will ensure data systems work together across our hybrid environments with a focus on scale and performance. You will lead technical and architecture decisions in collaboration with architecture and data engineering teams while ensuring compliance with industry-leading data privacy standards.
What you will be doing
  • Acts as a subject matter expert and thought leader within the Data Platform Domain
  • Data Strategy: Serves as a thought leader in data processing design and implementation, defining advanced structure for moving, storing, and maintaining high-quality data.
  • Team Leadership: Leads projects by managing timelines, coordinating teams, and communicating project statuses. Influences organizational direction through effective leadership and strategic collaboration
  • Data Governance and Security: Serves as a subject matter expert on governance standards, continuously aligning data practices with evolving industry best practices and requirements
  • Project Management and Scope of Work: Contributes to defining the overall vision and strategy for data engineering within the organization, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and long-term objectives
  • Results Orientation: Establishes visionary goals, advises on strategic plans, employs advanced monitoring, influences high-level stakeholders, and delivers transformative results
  • Data Platform: Expansion of our Data Warehouse(s) and Lakehouse solutions for a healthcare data focused enterprise
    • Data Governance: Configuring and maintaining unity catalog to enable enterprise data lineage, data quality, auditability and data stewardship
    • Data Security: Building out Data Security protocols and best practices including the management of identified and de-identified (PHI/PII) solutions
    • Access Management: Always ensure a policy of least privilege is followed for anything being implemented
    • External Data Products: Building data solutions for clients while upholding the best standards for reliability, quality, and performance
    • ETL: Building solutions within Delta Live Tables and automation of transformations
    • Medallion Architecture: Building out performant enterprise-level medallion architecture(s)
    • Streaming and Batch Processing: Building fit-for-purpose near real-time streaming and batch solutions
    • Large Data Management: Building out performant and efficient enterprise solutions for internal and external users for both structured and unstructured healthcare data
    • Platform Engineering: Building out Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Asset Bundles
    • Costs: Working with the business to build cost effective and cost transparent Data solutions
  • Pipeline/ETL Management: You will help architect, build, and maintain robust and scalable data pipelines, monitoring, and optimizing performance
    • Experience working with Migration tools i.e. Fivetran, AWS technologies and custom solutions
    • Identify and implement improvements to enhance data processing efficiency
    • Design and implement reliable and resilient Event Driven data processing
    • Experience with building out effective pipeline monitoring solutions
    • Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, Delta Live Tables, Python, Scala, and cloud-based 'big data' technologies
  • API Development: Drive our design and implementation of internal APIs for integrating data between different systems and applications
    • Integration with external systems utilizing API driven processes to ingest data
    • Develop APIs built on top of datasets for internal systems to consume data from Databricks
    • Experience integrating with external APIs including but not limited to Salesforce, Financial systems, HR systems and other external systems
  • Data Modeling: Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of standards based (FHIR, OMOP, etc.) and efficient data models for both structured and unstructured data
    • Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements
    • Develop and maintain data models, ensuring they align with business objectives and data privacy regulations
  • Collaboration: Partner internally and externally with key stakeholders to ensure we are providing meaningful, functional, and valuable data
    • Effectively work with Data, Development, Analysts, Data Science, and Business team members to gather requirements, propose, and build solutions.
    • Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and provide guidance on best practices.
    • Ensure that technology execution aligns with business strategy and provides efficient, secure solutions and systems
    • Gather requirements and build out project plans to implement those requirements with forecasted efforts to implement
  • Processes and Tools: Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
    • Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics.
    • Create data tools for clinical, analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
    • Lead investigation of new tooling, develop implementation plans, and deployment of necessary tooling

What we need
  • 15+ years of relevant experience in design, development, and testing of Data Platform solutions, such as Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Data Products
  • Expert level experience working in Databricks and AWS
  • Expert level experience working in both relational and non-relational databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, DocumentDB
  • Experience managing and standardizing clinical data from structured and unstructured sources
  • Experience building and managing solutions on AWS
  • Expert knowledge in healthcare standards including FHIR, C-CDA, and traditional HL7
  • Expert knowledge in clinical standards/ontologies including ICD10/SNOMED/NDC/LOINC/Rx Norm
  • Expert in building out data models, data warehouses, designing of data lakes for enterprise and product use cases
  • Familiarity with designing and building APIs, ETL and data ingestion processes and utilization of tools to support enterprise solutions
  • Experience in performance tuning, query optimization, security, monitoring, and release management
  • Experience working with and managing large, disparate, identified and de-identified data sets from multiple data sources
  • Experience with building and deploying IAC using terraform, asset bundles and GitHub
  • Experience collaborating with Data Science teams and building AI based solutions to drive efficiencies and business value

What you bring to the table
  • Demonstrated "let's find a way to do it" attitude - no task is too big or too small
  • Effective collaboration and communication across multiple technical and non-technical disciplines
  • Comfortable working through ambiguous situations
  • Able to teach & mentor others on new/emerging technologies
  • Customer obsessed with a business-centric focus
  • Able to understand both strategic and tactical needs and balance appropriately
  • Driven, thorough and self-directed
  • Able to lead through influence and persuasion
  • Curiosity to explore industry trends and drive the organization to utilize fit for purpose solutions

Wish list
  • Bachelor's degree or master's degree in computer science, data engineering or related field
  • Health and Life Insurance business experience
  • Professional level solution architecture certification in AWS

Location
The expected application deadline for this job is November 30, 2026. This position is open to remote work anywhere in the US. Applicants must be willing to travel to the Milliman office in Brookfield, WI as needed and travel nationwide for meetings, conferences, and team events.
Compensation
The overall salary range for this role is $131,600 - $249,780. For candidates residing in:
  • Alaska, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York City, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, or the District of Columbia the salary range is $151,340 - $249,780.

  • All other locations the salary range is $131,600 - $217,200.

A combination of factors will be considered, including, but not limited to, education, relevant work experience, qualifications, skills, certifications, etc.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employees' health, financial security, and well-being. Benefits include:
  • Medical, Dental and Vision - Coverage for employees, dependents, and domestic partners
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Confidential support for personal and work-related challenges
  • 401(k) Plan - Includes a company matching program and profit-sharing contributions
  • Discretionary Bonus Program - Recognizing employee contributions
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) - Pre-tax savings for dependent care, transportation, and eligible medical expenses
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) - Begins accruing on the first day of work. Full-time employees accrue 15 days per year, and employees working less than full-time accrue PTO on a prorated basis
  • Holidays - A minimum of 10 paid holidays per year
  • Family Building Benefits - Includes adoption and fertility assistance
  • Paid Parental Leave - Up to 11 weeks of paid leave for employees who meet eligibility criteria
  • Life Insurance & AD&D - 100% of premiums covered by Milliman
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability - Fully paid by Milliman

Equal Opportunity
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Milliman delivers market-leading services and solutions to clients worldwide. Today, we are helping companies take on some of the world's most critical and complex issues, including retirement funding and healthcare financing, risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics and business transformation.

Industry

Business management consulting

Company size

1,001 - 5,000 Employees

Headquarters location

Seattle, WA, US

Year founded

1947