Staff Data Engineer at HCA Healthcare
Nashville, TN
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Jul 16, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role on a healthcare data platform team, focused on building and maintaining enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines that move data from EHR systems into downstream analytics and operational consumers. The position also leads the migration of on-premises SQL Server and SSIS workloads to Google Cloud Platform services such as BigQuery and Dataflow, while setting architecture standards and mentoring other data engineers. Healthcare data experience and familiarity with interoperability standards are a plus.
Staff level · 7+ years · Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1 people in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 1–1
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $124,407 (middle half $86,358–$144,377).
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 (6)
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is primarily about designing and building enterprise data pipelines and cloud data architecture (leaning 15-1243 Database Architects / Data Architects), but the volume of hands-on ETL/ELT development and GCP service engineering also fits 15-1252 Software Developers. 15-1243 was chosen because architecture definition, migration strategy, and data modeling are the stated primary responsibilities.
The seniority band is Staff rather than Senior: the JD explicitly uses the 'Staff' title and describes org-wide technical leadership — defining architecture standards, migration strategies, and engineering best practices across teams — which is genuine Staff-level scope, not just a single-team Senior role.
Location is inferred as Nashville, TN (HCA Healthcare's headquarters); the posting does not explicitly state a work location or confirm remote eligibility.
The required GCP services section lists BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, Dataproc, and Cloud SQL as 'one or more' options. BigQuery is called out most prominently throughout the JD; the remaining GCP services are marked preferred since the JD only requires experience with at least one of them.
Degree requirement is set to None because the JD explicitly states 'equivalent experience may be substituted' for the Bachelor's degree.
CI/CD, Terraform, HL7, FHIR, and EHR platform experience (Cerner, Epic, Meditech) all appear under the Preferred section and are marked accordingly.
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