EY - GDS Consulting - AIA - Agentic AI - Senior

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Career Family: AIA – AGENTIC AI ENGINEER

Technology - Cloud & Data Engineering – Senior Associate Agentic Data Engineer (Healthcare)

The Opportunity

Healthcare is rapidly adopting Artificial Intelligence to improve patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and member experiences. As AI moves from experimentation into production, organizations need trusted, scalable, and AI-ready data foundations that enable intelligent applications and agentic systems to deliver meaningful business value.

Our Artificial Intelligence, Data and Engineering team helps healthcare organizations build modern cloud-based data platforms that power analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and emerging agentic AI capabilities. As an Agentic Data Engineer, you will work alongside healthcare, cloud, and AI specialists to design, build, and support data solutions that enable secure, governed, and scalable AI adoption within payer and provider organizations.

This role provides an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with healthcare data, cloud technologies, interoperability standards, and AI-enabled data platforms while working with leading healthcare clients.

Your Key Responsibilities

You will contribute to the implementation of healthcare data platforms and AI-ready data solutions, helping clients modernize their data ecosystems and accelerate AI adoption.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain cloud-based data pipelines to ingest, transform, validate, and process healthcare data from sources such as EHR/EMR systems, claims platforms, operational systems, and external healthcare data providers.
• Support the development of AI-ready healthcare data products, including curated datasets, semantic layers, feature stores, and reusable healthcare data assets.
• Participate in healthcare interoperability initiatives involving standards such as FHIR, HL7, CDA/CCDA, APIs, and healthcare integration platforms.
• Assist in building data foundations that support AI and Generative AI use cases, including document processing, retrieval systems, vector databases, knowledge repositories, and governed data access patterns.
• Implement data quality checks, monitoring, observability, lineage, and governance controls within healthcare data pipelines.
• Work with cross-functional teams including data engineers, AI engineers, architects, healthcare SMEs, and business stakeholders to deliver client solutions.
• Support cloud platform deployment activities using modern engineering practices such as CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DataOps.
• Participate in technical workshops, requirement gathering sessions, testing activities, and production support initiatives.
• Contribute to reusable accelerators, templates, and best practices for healthcare data and AI implementations.

Skills and Attributes for Success

To succeed in this role, you should have a strong foundation in data engineering, cloud technologies, and a passion for healthcare and AI innovation.

Key attributes include:

• Understanding of modern data engineering concepts including ETL/ELT, data modeling, data warehousing, lakehouse architectures, and cloud-based analytics platforms.
• Ability to work with structured and unstructured healthcare data while ensuring data quality, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Interest in AI, Generative AI, and emerging agentic AI technologies and their application in healthcare use cases.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate within cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to learn healthcare regulations, interoperability standards, and industry-specific data challenges.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and work effectively in a fast-paced consulting environment.

To Qualify for the Role You Must Have

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, Health Informatics, or a related technical field.
• 3-5 years of experience in Data Engineering, Cloud Data Platforms, Analytics Engineering, AI Engineering, or related technology disciplines.
• 1+ years of experience within healthcare, life sciences, health technology, payer, provider, or healthcare analytics environments.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards such as FHIR, HL7, CDA/CCDA, X12, or healthcare terminology standards is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with one or more cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Experience working with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse Analytics, BigQuery, or Redshift.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with exposure to Spark or distributed data processing frameworks.
• Experience building data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines using modern data engineering tools.
• Understanding of data governance, data quality, metadata management, and security controls.
• Exposure to AI/ML, Generative AI, vector databases, RAG architectures, or agentic AI concepts is preferred.
• Knowledge of healthcare privacy and compliance requirements such as HIPAA and PHI handling principles.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel based on client and project requirements.

Ideally, Youll Also Have

• Experience working with healthcare platforms such as Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), Athenahealth, Meditech, or payer platforms.
• Exposure to healthcare cloud services such as Azure Health Data Services, AWS HealthLake, Google Healthcare API, or industry accelerators from Databricks and Snowflake.
• Hands-on experience with AI and Generative AI frameworks, including vector databases, embeddings, prompt engineering, and retrieval-based architectures.
• Cloud certifications such as Microsoft Azure Data Engineer, Databricks Data Engineer Associate, AWS Data Engineer, SnowPro, or Google Cloud certifications.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
• Relevant healthcare analytics, interoperability, or AI project experience.

What We Look For

• A growth mindset and enthusiasm for learning emerging technologies in AI, cloud, and healthcare.
• Strong team collaboration skills and a client-focused approach.
• Curiosity, problem-solving ability, and a willingness to take ownership of assigned deliverables.
• Passion for building innovative healthcare technology solutions that create measurable impact.
• An inclusive mindset that values teamwork, diversity of thought, and continuous improvement.

Target Profile Summary

Experience: 3-5 years

Level: Senior Associate Consultant

Focus Areas: Healthcare Data Engineering, Cloud Platforms, AI/GenAI Delivery, Healthcare Interoperability, Data Quality & Governance

Tech Stack: Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Azure/AWS/GCP, FHIR/HL7, GenAI & Agentic AI Fundamentals.

Why Join Us

• Be at the forefront of AI-driven innovation across multiple client sectors.
• Work with global clients to drive real business impact.
• Collaborate with a team of AI experts, analytics leaders, and industry specialists in a highly entrepreneurial environment.

What we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

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