We are looking for a Lead Data & Platform Engineer to join the Health Data Platform and Innovation Unit of a Spanish healthcare Consulting, Research and Innovation company, founded in 2022 and currently undergoing significant growth. Technical ownership of the Data Platform: Architecture, Data Model, Source Integration, Continuous Ingestion, Quality, Performance and Operations.
This is not a maintenance role, nor one focused on implementing decisions made by others: the person in this position will define the architecture, document it and take ownership of its long-term operation and evolution.
Consolidate and scale the Clinical Data Platform. Redesign the Data Model, Performance and Traceability to support growth in data volume, data sources and the number of simultaneous projects.
Integrate new Healthcare Data Sources. Incorporate new Clinical, Hospital and Administrative Data Sources into the common model, addressing the heterogeneity of formats, terminologies and identifiers inherent to the healthcare sector.




Design and operate Continuous Ingestion and Processing of Healthcare Data using Event-Driven Architectures, with HL7 FHIR Interoperability and under strict data security and sovereignty requirements. Define the Unit's Engineering practices, document the Architecture and technical Decisions, and participate in building and developing the team as it grows. You will work closely with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Biostatisticians and the Scientific and Clinical Teams to ensure that data is available, validated, traceable and ready for use across projects. On-premise PostgreSQL (proprietary clinical data model): tuning, partitioning, RLS and replication.
Python for data processing, integration and automation.
Apache Kafka / Confluent Platform: event ingestion and processing.
Change Data Capture from healthcare systems (Debezium, Kafka Connect).
Kafka Streams, Apache Flink or ksqlDB.
Schema governance and data contracts: Schema Registry, Avro/Protobuf, version

📌 Lead/Senior Data Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Farmatalento
📍 Madrid