Contract Data Engineer (6 months) — Clasva Demo

  • Remote
  • Boston, MA, USA
  • $170,000–$210,000 USD / year
  • Contract
  • 6 days ago
Apply on Meridian Health Systems's site LiveClasva reviewed · 3 Sep 2026

Honest signals

What's hard about this role

Source data from hospital systems is inconsistent and poorly documented. The contract has a hard end date, so scope discipline matters. Some pipelines run on a legacy orchestration tool being phased out mid-contract.

What causes people to struggle here

This is not a permanent role and there is no conversion guarantee. It is not a greenfield build — you are extending and stabilising an existing system. It is not an analytics or modelling role; the focus is pipelines and data quality.

Who does well here

A contractor who can ramp fast on an existing codebase, is comfortable owning a slice of the pipeline independently, and documents as they go so the permanent team can maintain it afterwards.

What you'll do

  • Build and harden batch + streaming pipelines in Python and SQL
  • Backfill and validate historical hospital-operations data
  • Define data contracts with the analytics team
  • Document pipelines for handover to the permanent team

What we're looking for

Must have

  • 5+ years building production data pipelines
  • Strong Python and advanced SQL on a cloud warehouse
  • Experience with an orchestration tool (Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
  • Able to ramp quickly on an unfamiliar codebase

Your first 90 days

First 30 days

Take ownership of two existing pipelines and clear their backlog

First 60 days

Migrate one pipeline off the legacy orchestrator

First 90 days

Publish data-quality checks for the core operations dataset

How the work actually goes

A typical week

This is a delivery-focused six-month contract. Most of the week is building and hardening batch and streaming pipelines in Python and SQL on a cloud data warehouse, plus backfilling historical hospital-operations data. Roughly one day a week is spent with the analytics team defining data contracts.

The team

You work alongside two permanent data engineers and an analytics lead, reporting to the VP Data. Fully remote across US time zones, async-first with a daily written standup.

Compensation

$170,000–$210,000 USD / year

Range as stated by the employer · USD · Annual

≈ $15,833.33 / month — derived from the stated annual range.

How we hire

  1. Intro call with the VP Data (30 min)
  2. Technical interview: pipeline design + SQL (60 min)
  3. Short paid take-home or pairing session

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  • Compensation range $170,000–$210,000 USD / year
  • Employment type Contract
  • Work mode Remote
  • Core responsibilities 4 listed
  • Required skills 4 listed
  • Honest role signals Hard parts and failure modes stated
  • Employer identity Meridian Health Systems
  • Hiring process Shared below
  • Independent review Reviewed by Clasva — 3 Sep 2026
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  • How to apply Not disclosed
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Company

MHMeridian Health Systems
Company size
51-200 Employees
Headquarters
Boston, MA, USA
Founded
2016
Open roles
1

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