Winter 2025

Data Engineer

Posted on 11/5/2025

Abacus Insights

Abacus Insights

201-500 employees

Cloud-based payer data integration platform

No salary listed

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Data & Analytics (2)
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Requirements
  • 2+ years of experience working with healthcare data.
  • Understanding and passion for healthcare data and systems – knowledge on Membership, Claims, Provider and other domains.
  • Strong experience writing queries, performing data analysis, data profiling and reporting.
  • Performance optimization experience with understanding of how to fine tune the queries.
  • Experience handling a large volume of data.
  • Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to seek better analytical solutions to abstract business problems.
  • Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Experience, coupled with a willingness, to learn new things
  • Desire to contribute individually, with the ability both to self-direct work and to collaborate with others.
  • Strong SQL Programming skills.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills.
Responsibilities
  • Work with clients and implementation teams to understand the data distribution requirements.
  • Perform data analysis and data mapping required to produce client output.
  • Build the data distribution extracts and scripts.
  • Optimize the performance of the data extract scripts.
  • Foster a dynamic, high-preforming, and collaborative culture.
  • Guide team members to solve issues and help them to understand any challenges.
  • Spearhead clients’ projects and handle client calls.
  • Constantly think about process enhancements and bring different ideas into table.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience working with an AWS platform.
  • Experience working with Snowflake.
  • Understanding or experience working for a cloud-based data services provider to large healthcare clients.

Abacus Insights provides a cloud-based data transformation platform for health plans that ingests data from claims, clinical records, and member eligibility and consolidates it into a unified, usable data set. It creates a 360-degree view of the patient and serves as a data layer that decouples data from analytics tools, delivering secure, HIPAA-compliant data feeds tailored to specific business uses. The company differentiates itself with payer-specific data workflows, a focus on cleaning and unifying siloed data, and leadership with deep payer and clinical expertise, enabling health plans to use their preferred analytics tools. Its goal is to help health plans improve clinical outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance member experiences by providing high-quality, accessible data for decision making.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series D

Total Funding

$132.5M

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts

Founded

2017

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Databricks partnership accelerates proprietary generative AI products for payer outcome improvements.
  • Tech Mahindra and ZS partnerships de-risk implementations and expand market reach at scale.
  • Stars Performance Data Solution directly addresses Medicare quality metrics driving payer ROI.

What critics are saying

  • CMS TEFCA mandate effective January 2026 commoditizes proprietary data transformation via QHIN networks.
  • Komodo Health's 330M-life Healthcare Map undercuts Abacus' 23M scale with price compression.
  • Optum's Change Healthcare acquisition captures Blue Cross partnerships through bundled claims dominance.

What makes Abacus Insights unique

  • Purpose-built cloud platform exclusively designed for health plan payer data transformation needs.
  • Manages data for 23 million U.S. health insurance members with 15-minute data delivery velocity.
  • Physician-founded by Dr. Minal Patel with deep payer operations and McKinsey consulting expertise.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-4%

2 year growth

-7%
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