The Senior Data Engineer leads and implements best-in-class data management strategies and practices through various forms of integration, data acquisition/ingestion, data cleansing/refinements, data transformations/conversions, data migrations, data purging, and back-ups. The incumbent works with a variety of users and stakeholders to understand data requirements and supports the data architecture to translate into the data management practice at Healthfirst. The Sr. Data Engineer authors artifacts defining standards and definitions for storing, processing, and moving data including associated processes and business rules. Additionally, the Sr. Data Engineer maps the details within these artifacts to business processes, non-functional characteristics, qualitative criteria, and technical enablement. He/she must constantly think through the needs of the business to support efficient and error-free processes. The Sr. Data Engineer finds trends in datasets and develops workflows and algorithms to highlight strategic raw data as useful to the enterprise. The Sr. Data Engineer creates data acquisition strategy and develops dataset processes in a robust manner according to best practices of standardization.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Designs and implements standardized data management procedures around data staging, data ingestion, data preparation, data provisioning, and data destruction (e.g., scripts, programs, automation, etc.)
- Ensures quality of technical solutions as data moves across multiple zones and 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 to support the company’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 to efficiently implement solutions
- Prepares data for predictive and prescriptive modeling and find 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 the solution architecture; contributes to overall solution architecture
- Develops patterns for standardizing the environment technology stack
- Helps maintain the integrity and security of company data
- Additional duties as assigned or required
Minimum Qualification:
- Work experience in data engineering requiring advanced data management strategies
- Demonstrated expertise in data programming languages (i.e., Java, Python or PySpark, etc.)
- Work experience in a ‘Big Data’ ecosystem processing data including file systems, data structures/data bases, automation, security, messaging, movement, etc.
- Work experience in a production cloud infrastructure
- Proven track record of success directing the efforts of data engineers and data analysts to include coaching, mentoring, or informal leadership High School Diploma or GED from an accredited institution
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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 AWS, including creating Redshift data structures, accessing them with Spectrum, and storing data in S3
- Knowledge of SQL and multiple programming languages to optimize data processes and retrieval
- Proven results using an analytical perspective to identify engineering patterns within complex strategies and ideas, and break them down into engineered code components
- Experience developing, prototyping, and testing engineered processes, products, or services
- Proficiency with relational, graph and NoSQL databases
- 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 PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Visio
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Hiring Range*:
Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $131,900 - $190,570
All Other Locations (within approved locations): $117,400 - $174,675
As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, licenses and certifications, and any other factors Healthfirst deems pertinent to the hiring decision.
In addition to your salary, Healthfirst offers employees a full range of benefits such as, medical, dental and vision coverage, incentive and recognition programs, life insurance, and 401k contributions (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Healthfirst believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package wherever its employees work and live.
*The hiring range is defined as the lowest and highest salaries that Healthfirst in “good faith” would pay to a new hire, or for a job promotion, or transfer into this role.
