Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Healthfirst is a healthcare management services organization seeking a Data Engineer to support data acquisition strategies and integration. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to understand business requirements and ensuring data architecture aligns with business needs.
Responsibilities
- Finds trends in datasets and develops workflows and algorithms to make raw data useful to the enterprise
- Designs and implements standardized data management procedures around data staging, data ingestion, data preparation, data provisioning, and data destruction (scripts, programs, automation, assisted by automation, etc.)
- Ensures quality of technical solutions as data moves across Healthfirst environments
- Provides insight into the changing data environment, data processing, data storage and utilization requirements for the company and offer suggestions for solutions
- Ensures managed analytic assets support Healthfirst’s strategic goals by creating and verifying data acquisition requirements and strategy
- Develops, constructs, tests and maintains architectures
- Aligns architecture with business requirements and uses programming language and tools
- Identifies ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality
- Conducts research for industry and business questions
- Deploys sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods
- Prepares data for predictive and prescriptive modeling and finds hidden patterns using data
- Uses data to discover tasks that can be automated
- Creates data monitoring capabilities for each business process and works with data consumers on updates
- Aligns data architecture to Healthfirst solution architecture; contributes to overall solution architecture
- Helps maintain the integrity and security of the company data
- Additional duties as assigned or required
Skills
- Work experience in a data engineering
- Work experience in data programing languages such as Java or Python
- Work experience in a Big Data ecosystem processing data including file systems, data structures/databases, automation, security, messaging, movement, etc
- Work experience in a production cloud infrastructure
- High School Diploma or GED from an accredited institution
- Bachelor's Degree in computer engineering or related field
- Hands on experience in leading healthcare data transformation initiatives from on-premise to cloud deployment
- Demonstrated experience working in an Agile environment as a Data Engineer
- Hands on work with Amazon Web Services, including creating Redshift data structures, accessing them with Spectrum and storing data in S3
- Proven results using an analytical perspective to identify engineering patterns within complex strategies and ideas, and break them down into engineered code components
- Knowledge of provider-sponsored health insurance systems/processes and the Healthcare industry
- Experience developing, prototyping, and testing engineered processes, products, or services
- Proficiency with relational, graph and noSQL databases; expertise in SQL
- Demonstrates critical thinking skills with ability to problem solve
- Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence with impact across functions and disciplines
- Skilled in Microsoft Office including Project, PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Visio
- Strong knowledge and experience in Healthcare claims/providers/members data ETL, engineering, and reporting
- Proficiency in Alteryx and Tableau with hands on experience
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Life insurance
- 401k contributions (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
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