Principal Data Engineer AI at Cotiviti
$175,000–$205,000from the description
Jul 26, 2026
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Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A fully remote Principal Data Engineer role at a healthcare analytics company, responsible for designing and owning the clinical AI data platform end to end — including PHI pipelines on AWS, compliance-grade audit trails, data quality frameworks, MLOps infrastructure, and a clinical knowledge graph. The role sets technical direction for data architecture across regulated healthcare environments and mentors senior engineers. Best suited to a seasoned data engineer with deep healthcare data and cloud experience.
Senior level · 12+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 55 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 15–80
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). 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 (10)
The posting requires 12+ years of both general big data/cloud experience and data engineering experience specifically — these are stated as separate requirements but both point to the same 12-year floor, so the overall years minimum is set to 12.
The Bachelor's degree requirement is paired with 'or equivalent work experience,' so no minimum degree is flagged as hard-required.
AWS is listed as the primary required cloud platform; GCP and Databricks are explicitly called 'a plus' and are marked preferred accordingly.
The specific AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, EMR) are enumerated within the required qualifications block and are marked required, though in practice they represent depth within the AWS requirement rather than independently gateable skills.
Healthcare data interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, C-CDA) and clinical terminologies (ICD-10, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm) are described as 'a strong plus' — preferred, not required.
MLOps tooling and HIPAA/PHI experience are described as 'a strong plus' in the qualifications; however, the responsibilities section treats PHI pipeline ownership as a core duty. The qualifications framing governs the required/preferred flag classification, so these are marked preferred.
Knowledge graph and NLP-driven pipeline experience is listed as 'a plus' — preferred.
AI productivity tools (Claude Code, Copilot, MCP) appear in the required qualifications block but are framed as 'experienced leveraging AI for enhancing engineering productivity' — a relatively soft gate for a Principal-level role; included as preferred given the ambiguous framing.
The role is titled Principal but the scope — while broad and senior — is primarily within a single platform/group rather than org-wide technical authority. Seniority is assessed as Senior rather than Principal on that basis.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily data architecture and pipeline engineering (15-1243), but the volume of software development work (graph assembler, NLP pipelines, MLOps tooling) makes 15-1252 a plausible alternative.
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