Denver, COremote

Salary
$92,500–$209,500from the description
Posted
Jun 28, 2026
Location
Denver, CO
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior data/platform engineering role focused on designing, building, and operating large-scale healthcare data pipelines that produce de-identified Real World Data — from ingestion through publishing. The work involves structured data today, with near-term expansion into unstructured clinical content such as notes, images, and waveforms. The role also carries informal technical leadership responsibilities, including mentoring junior engineers and driving architectural decisions.

Mid level · 4+ years · Remote · Full-time

Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Mid.

Must have (6)
SparkPythonJava or GoHadoopSQLAWS, Azure or GCP
Nice to have (2)
Agiledata modeling

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

Posted 25 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

What won't set you apart
SQL90%Python55%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $139,500 (middle half $109,370–$169,290). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (9)

The role is titled 'Senior Platform Engineer' but the required experience range of 4–8+ years and the IC3 career level designation at Oracle align more closely with a Mid-level band than a true Senior; the overall years minimum is set to 4 (the stated floor).

SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role centers on data pipeline design and data platform engineering (favoring 15-1243 Database Architects), but the emphasis on software development, cloud services, and general platform engineering also makes 15-1252 Software Developers a strong alternative.

Spark and PySpark are listed together as a single requirement in the JD ('Spark / PySpark'); they are emitted as a paired requirement with each as an alternative for the other, alongside separate entries to capture both names.

Java and Go are listed as interchangeable options in the JD; Go is captured as an alternative for Java.

Public cloud experience is a hard gate but no specific cloud provider is named; AWS is used as the canonical primary with Azure and GCP as alternatives.

A US federal security clearance is listed under Preferred Qualifications only ('eligible to obtain & maintain'), not as a hard gate; the clearance requirement is set to None accordingly.

Healthcare domain experience and Agile methodology experience appear under Preferred Qualifications.

The BS in Computer Science requirement accepts 'equivalent degree or experience,' so no minimum degree is enforced.

No specific work location is stated in the posting; the compensation range is noted as US-specific but no city or metro is identified.

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