Data Operations Engineer - Portland - SWORD Health

Description

Data Operations Engineer

Sword Health is on a mission to free two billion people from pain. With 67% of members achieving a pain-free life and a 70% reduction in surgery intent, at Sword, we are using AI Care to change lives, and save millions for our 25,000+ enterprise clients across three continents. Today, we hold the majority of industry patents, win 70% of competitive evaluations, and have raised more than $400 million from top venture firms like Founders Fund, Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst, and Khosla Ventures. Recognized as a Forbes Best Startup Employer in 2025, this award highlights our focus on being a destination for the best and brightest talent. Not only have we experienced unprecedented growth since our market debut in 2020, but we've also created a remarkable mission and value-driven environment that is loved by our growing team. With a recent valuation of $4 billion, we are in a phase of hyper growth and expansion, and we're looking for individuals with passion, commitment, and energy to help us scale our global impact. Joining Sword means committing to a set of core values, chief amongst them to "do it for the patients" every day, and to always "deliver more than expected" on behalf of our members and clients. This is an opportunity for you to make a significant difference on a massive scale as you work alongside and growing) talented colleagues, spanning three continents. Your charge? To help us build a pain-free world, powered by AI, enhanced by people accessible to all.

Sword Health is looking for an exceptional candidate to join our marketing team as a Data Operations Engineer. This individual will be helping our organization to integrate clients (self insured employers and health plans) into Sword's solutions by building and maintaining data pipelines that can process large volumes of healthcare data. This role requires an independent self-starter who can ensure that information flows timely and accurately.

What You'll Be Doing:

• ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Pipelines: Adept at building and maintaining data pipelines that can process large volumes of healthcare data. This includes cleaning, validating, merging, and enriching data from disparate sources;
• Validation & Cleansing: Implement automated data validation rules to ensure data quality and integrity, proactively identifying errors such as mismatched fields, missing data, or invalid codes (e.g., ICD, CPT);
• Monitoring & Alerting: Sets up robust monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., via logs or dashboards) to detect processing failures, latency issues, or data anomalies in near real time.

What You Need To Have:

• Eligibility and Claims Data: In-depth knowledge of eligibility, medical claims, pharmacy claims, and prior authorization data, including how these data sets are structured, interpreted, and used across the healthcare ecosystem;
• Regulatory Knowledge: Competence in handling Protected Health Information (PHI) within HIPAA and other relevant regulatory frameworks, with a strong sense of data governance and security;
• Proven experience writing and optimizing SQL queries to extract and analyze large datasets;
• Knowledge of secure transport protocols (SFTP) and data encryption;
• Strong understanding of ETL processes, data integration, system architecture;
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Comfortable working with cross-functional teams - customer success managers, data engineers, product managers, clinical operations, payer partners - to gather and validate requirements, clarify data definitions, and ensure timely delivery of data feeds;
• Domain Communication: Capable of translating technical details into language that non-technical stakeholders understand, while also diving deep into technical specifics when collaborating with engineers;
• Vendor & Partner Relations: Negotiates technical requirements and SLAs (Service Level Agreements) with external vendors, payers, and healthcare networks, ensuring seamless interoperability;
• Detail-Oriented & Process-Driven: Capacity to maintain meticulous documentation of processes, to support troubleshooting and repeatability;
• Problem-Solving: Thrives on diagnosing issues, reconciling data discrepancies, and proposing process improvements that reduce recurring errors and operational overhead;
• Growth focused: Experience and desire to work in a fast-moving high growth environment and having the ability to plan, organize, prioritize and execute multiple activities/projects simultaneously.

What We Would Love To See:

• Familiarity with data brokers like Availity or Change Healthcare, or familiarity with EDI workflows, especially 270/271 transactions;
• 3+ years of experience in a data-centric role.

To Ensure You Feel Good Solving A Big Human Problem, We Offer:

• A stimulating, fast-paced environment with lots of room for creativity;
• A bright future at a promising high-tech startup company;
• Career development and growth, with a competitive salary;
• The opportunity to work with a talented team and to add real value to an innovative solution with the potential to change the future of healthcare;
• A flexible environment where you can control your hours (remotely) with unlimited vacation;
• Access to our health and well-being program (digital therapist sessions);
• Remote or Hybrid work policy.

$109,577 - $172,193 a year *This range includes base, variable and equity These compensation bands are just the starting point. Once someone joins and proves they're outlier talent, we adjust quickly to ensure their compensation aligns with their impact. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Actual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, location, market demand, and other factors. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary and any potential variable, bonus or sales incentives, and the Company's estimation of the value of private company stock options, if applicable. The pay range is subject to change, future value of company stock options is not guaranteed, and compensation may be modified in the future. In addition to our total compensation, Sword offers a number of benefits as listed below.

US - Sword Benefits & Perks: Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance* Life and AD&D Insurance* Financial advisory services* Supplemental Insurance Benefits (Accident, Hospital and Critical Illness)* Health Savings Account* Equity shares* Discretionary PTO plan* Parental leave* 401(k) Flexible working hours Remote-first company Paid company holidays Free digital therapist for you and your family Note: Applicants must have a legal right to work in the United States, and immigration or work visa sponsorship will not be provided. SWORD Health, which includes SWORD Health, Inc. and Sword Health Professionals (consisting of Sword Health Care Providers, P.A., SWORD Health Care Providers of NJ, P.C., SWORD Health Care Physical Therapy Providers of CA, P.C.*) complies with applicable Federal and State civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of Age, Ancestry, Color, Citizenship, Gender, Gender expression, Gender identity, Gender information, Marital status, Medical condition, National origin, Physical or mental disability, Pregnancy, Race, Religion, Caste, Sexual orientation, and Veteran status.