Customer Data Engineer - Pre-Sales

Bluesight
United States
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for healthcare IT professionals who lead technical engagements and translate complex data requirements into actionable solutions.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with experience in health tech and technical pre-sales roles who can bridge clinical and technical teams
    — “Serve as the trusted data advisor to healthcare clients, explaining complex integration requirements, data formatting, and security protocols in a clear, consultative manner.”
  • Individuals who have built internal tools or automated processes in a SaaS environment
    — “A track record of building internal tools, leveraging AI-assisted development tooling or automating manual work to improve process efficiency.”
  • Professionals comfortable with ambiguity and capable of self-direction in varied data environments
    — “Comfort with ambiguity — customer data environments are varied and there won't always be a direct playbook.”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a strong understanding of HIPAA and secure data transfer protocols, which may be a barrier for non-healthcare IT candidates
    — “Ensure all data scoping and collection processes strictly adhere to HIPAA regulations, SOC2 standards, and best practices for handling Protected Health Information (PHI).”
  • Candidates must be eligible to work in the continental United States, limiting international applicants
    — “This position is open to applicants in the continental United States.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with EHR systems like Epic or Cerner and your ability to lead technical workshops
    — “Lead technical workshops with hospital IT departments to map their data structures to our SaaS platform’s requirements.”
  • Emphasize your ability to explain technical data concepts to non-technical stakeholders
    — “Ability to translate highly technical data requirements to non-technical clinical leaders while holding your own in deep technical discussions with hospital database administrators.”
  • Showcase your SQL skills and experience analyzing complex, sensitive datasets
    — “SQL skills and demonstrated ability to analyze complex and sensitive datasets.”
  • Demonstrate your experience with cloud data infrastructure and data warehousing platforms
    — “Experience with cloud data infrastructure.”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • data discovery and collection
  • technical consultation
  • implementation handoff
Typical background
data engineeringcloud infrastructurehealthcare IT

Skills & requirements

Required

Data EngineeringCloud InfrastructureSQLHipaa Compliance

Preferred

Ai-assisted DevelopmentAutomation

Stack & domain

Data EngineeringPre-salesSales EngineeringTechnical ImplementationSQLEHREMRCloud Data InfrastructureHipaa ComplianceSFTPAPI SecurityTechnical ConsultationCommunicationProblem-solvingProcess OptimizationTeamworkProactiveSelf-directedHealthcareData IntegrationHospital PharmacyPharmaceutical Manufacturers

About the role

Original posting from Bluesight via Lever

At Bluesight, our mission is to create groundbreaking solutions that increase efficiency, safety and visibility for health systems, hospital pharmacy, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.  We empower our customers to deliver the right medicine to the right patient at the right time, every time.  We are a high growth healthcare information technology company with a start-up 'vibe' but over 3,000 customers using our proven solutions.

Key and Representative Duties::

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Pre-Sales Data Scope Development: Partner directly with the Sales teams during late-stage sales cycles to evaluate prospective clients' data, sources, and identify potential integration hurdles, and define technical requirements and specifications

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Data Discovery & Collection: Lead technical workshops with hospital IT departments to map their data structures to our SaaS platform’s requirements. Drive the timeline and execution of data extracts, ensuring all required information is gathered accurately prior to implementation.

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Technical Consultation: Serve as the trusted data advisor to healthcare clients, explaining complex integration requirements, data formatting, and security protocols in a clear, consultative manner.

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Implementation Handoff: Translate client data models into actionable integration blueprints. Facilitate a seamless handover of data assets, mapping documentation, and integration requirements to the Implementation teams for go-live. Contribute to internal documentation, playbooks, and tooling that improve the efficiency and consistency of future implementations.

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Process Optimization: Develop and refine standardized data collection templates, scripts, and pre-sales documentation to accelerate the onboarding timeline for new hospital clients. Partner with Bluesight's data engineering team to productize implementation and transformation logic. 

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Security & Compliance: Ensure all data scoping and collection processes strictly adhere to HIPAA regulations, SOC2 standards, and best practices for handling Protected Health Information (PHI).

Skills and Qualifications Required::

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4+ years in a technical pre-sales, sales engineering, or technical implementation role within a B2B SaaS environment, preferably in the health tech space.

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Ability to lead customer-facing technical engagements — managing expectations, communicating data requirements clearly, and driving deliveries to completion. 

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Ability to translate highly technical data requirements to non-technical clinical leaders while holding your own in deep technical discussions with hospital database administrators.

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SQL skills and demonstrated ability to analyze complex and sensitive datasets.

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Direct experience working with major Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems such as Epic, Cerner, or Meditech.

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Experience with cloud data infrastructure 

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A track record of building internal tools, leveraging AI-assisted development tooling or automating manual work to improve process efficiency.

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Comfort with ambiguity — customer data environments are varied and there won't always be a direct playbook.

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Proactive and self-directed — you see what needs doing and drive it to completion without close supervision.

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Strong working knowledge of HIPAA compliance and secure data transfer protocols (SFTP, API security) for handling PHI.

Preferred Qualifications

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Experience with standard healthcare data interoperability frameworks and messaging protocols, specifically HL7 (v2 and v3) and FHIR.

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Familiarity with cloud data warehousing (e.g., Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery).

Compensation:

In addition to the base salary, this role includes eligibility for incentive commission based on results.  The actual wage offered depends on the candidate's experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications and geographic location.

Bluesight offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. 

This position is open to applicants in the continental United States.

Why Bluesight?

Bluesight’s culture is built on innovation and teamwork. There’s room to grow and opportunities to take initiative. You will partner with sharp, motivated teammates looking to disrupt a massive industry—and have fun doing it.  We truly believe that where you work and what you do matters.  Join us as we revolutionize the hospital pharmacy landscape!

-Competitive salary

-Time off when you need it – unlimited vacation days!

-Generous insurance coverage

-401k program with a company match

-Fun, collaborative culture!

EOE AA M/F/VET/Disability

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws.

Source: Bluesight careers (Lever)

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