Cricket Health’s Data Engineer will report directly to the Data Team Lead and will serve as a critical bridge between the Data Team and Cricket’s Engineering team. The Data Engineer will be tasked with designing, developing, testing, deploying, and operating Cricket’s data lake / warehouse. From a data perspective, Cricket’s key differentiator will be rooted in our ability to bring together and analyze complex, disparate data sources quickly and accurately. We are looking for a true technologist - the hybrid builder / leader - to paint the vision and lay the groundwork for the central data repository that will become the backbone of Cricket’s mission to improve care for patients suffering from kidney disease. The Data Engineer will also champion the democratization of information within Cricket by owning metadata management, implementing HIPAA compliant access controls, and standing up our data visualization capability alongside product managers, data engineers, data analysts, and clinicians. We are looking for someone who is passionate about improving healthcare, wants to “do right” by patients and providers, cares deeply about data quality, and can build data pipelines “now” and build a team over time. As the arbiter of “truth” within Cricket, all cross-functional C-suite executives will be downstream stakeholders of your work including Cricket’s sales, engineering, product, finance, and medical leaders.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and build the initial backbone for Cricket Health’s data infrastructure including our data lake / warehouse, data modeling layer, and data visualization capabilities 
• Work with Engineering and Data teams to shape data infrastructure investments
• Collaborate with application developers, product managers, and business analysts to understand requirements and translate them into design specifications and code
• Work closely with Cricket team members to develop, test, deploy, and operate high quality, scalable data pipelines connecting internal and external data sources
• Write complex, highly-optimized SQL queries across large data sets with a relentless focus on accuracy and reproducibility
• Build automated quality control (QC) tests and perform pull request reviews for data analysts and engineers 
• Own data IT strategy recommendations, database architecture development, dev processes, data quality assurance, and system administration 
• Build, coach, and mentor a team over time following the initial build

Required Qualifications:

• Strong background / experience developing mature data infrastructure
• 5+ years of hands-on experience doing data engineering work
• Prior work standing up automated data pipelines from “from scratch” (e.g. soup to nuts); Airflow experience preferred
• Strong programming skills in at least one object oriented programming language (Java, Scala, C++, Python, etc.)
• Experience standing up and administering data modeling and ELT tools 
• Experience standing up and administering data visualization tools (e.g. Looker, Mode)
• Experience working with AWS services such as Redshift and S3 is required
• Passion for Cricket Health’s mission

Ideal Qualifications:

• Experience building and leading a technical team responsible for 
• Experience working in both a start-up and “established” company environment
• Working knowledge of data compliance and regulatory pitfalls in healthcare
• Understanding of healthcare data ontologies (CPT, ICD10, NDC, etc.)

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Stock options + extended option exercise window
• Health, dental and vision
• 401k retirement savings plan
• Competitive vacation

Cricket Health is a comprehensive kidney care provider with a personalized, evidence-based approach to managing chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Cricket Health delivers world-class, technology-enabled multidisciplinary care both in-person and virtually to achieve the best outcomes possible for patients and the best value for partners, keeping patients healthy and out of the hospital, accelerating access to transplant, and increasing home dialysis adoption. We are committed to aligning the success of our company with those of our partners and the patients whom we serve. Learn more at www.crickethealth.com and follow us @crickethealth.