Senior Data Engineer

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Do you love to build solutions to big, challenging problems? Do you embrace the challenge of using unstructured data to deliver real-time actionable insight to a leading healthcare organization?As a Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing the next generation of athena’s distributed data pipeline, which will drive instantaneous access to insight throughout our organization. You’ll partner with the Data Science and Software Engineering teams to create and architect innovative solutions to scale our ability to learn from our growing network.
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
50% Technical Execution

  • Design and launch scalable, reliable and efficient processes to move, transform and report on large amounts of healthcare data
  • Deploy these data environments using your expert software engineering skills
  • Use your expertise in data modeling to deliver a well-crafted model that can be used by Data Scientists and Business Analysts
  • Accurately estimate the size of development tasks in story points
  • Write, debug, and deploy code to production
  • Develop automated tests utilizing test infrastructure to validate code
  • Adhere to DOD (story definition of done) as part of the sprint, including unit tests, functional testing, code reviews, no regressions, bug fixes, documentation and adhere to best coding practices
  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues until resolution
  • Contribute to accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail

30% Contributions to the Team

  • Participate on scrum teams following practices outlined by team
  • Learn the domain knowledge for area of assignment
  • Contribute to sprint planning
  • Contribute to agile ceremonies to improve team performance
  • Volunteer for work in the backlog and commit to quality delivery
  • Take ownership of what the team builds after the release

20% Cross functional Coordination and Communication

  • Work collaboratively across the Technology and Product organizations
  • Collaborate with members of product and UX teams to design solutions
  • Coordinate efforts within own team/ immediate team members
  • Effectively communicates with stakeholders in a team setting

Education, Experience, & Skills Required:

  • 5+ years of experience in an engineering role
  • Familiarity of working in an Agile environment preferred
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
  • Software engineering skills and computer science experience
  • Knowledge of at least one modern programming languages such as: C#, C++, Perl, Java, Python, and javascript/jQuery
  • Familiarity with Univ/Linux, Big Data, SQL, NOSQL, and various other technologies
  • Exposure to object oriented programing, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech (Hadoop, spark), RESTful API, WebUI (HTML 5) and Modern JS frameworks
  • Understanding of iOS and Android environments

Behaviors & Abilities Required:

  • Ability to learn and adapt in a fast paced environment, while producing quality code
  • Ability to work collaboratively on a cross-functional team with a wide range of experience levels
  • Ability to write code that is technically sound, performant, scalable, and readable
  • Ability to collaborate with business owners to understand and refine business requirements

Ability and willingness to demonstrate ownership of an area of athena’s technology

Do you love to build solutions to big, challenging problems? Do you embrace the challenge of using unstructured data to deliver real-time actionable insight to a leading healthcare organization?As a Data Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing the next generation of athena’s distributed data pipeline, which will drive instantaneous access to insight throughout our organization. You’ll partner with the Data Science and Software Engineering teams to create and architect innovative solutions to scale our ability to learn from our growing network.
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
50% Technical Execution

  • Design and launch scalable, reliable and efficient processes to move, transform and report on large amounts of healthcare data
  • Deploy these data environments using your expert software engineering skills
  • Use your expertise in data modeling to deliver a well-crafted model that can be used by Data Scientists and Business Analysts
  • Accurately estimate the size of development tasks in story points
  • Write, debug, and deploy code to production
  • Develop automated tests utilizing test infrastructure to validate code
  • Adhere to DOD (story definition of done) as part of the sprint, including unit tests, functional testing, code reviews, no regressions, bug fixes, documentation and adhere to best coding practices
  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues until resolution
  • Contribute to accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail

30% Contributions to the Team

  • Participate on scrum teams following practices outlined by team
  • Learn the domain knowledge for area of assignment
  • Contribute to sprint planning
  • Contribute to agile ceremonies to improve team performance
  • Volunteer for work in the backlog and commit to quality delivery
  • Take ownership of what the team builds after the release

20% Cross functional Coordination and Communication

  • Work collaboratively across the Technology and Product organizations
  • Collaborate with members of product and UX teams to design solutions
  • Coordinate efforts within own team/ immediate team members
  • Effectively communicates with stakeholders in a team setting

Education, Experience, & Skills Required:

  • 5+ years of experience in an engineering role
  • Familiarity of working in an Agile environment preferred
  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
  • Software engineering skills and computer science experience
  • Knowledge of at least one modern programming languages such as: C#, C++, Perl, Java, Python, and javascript/jQuery
  • Familiarity with Univ/Linux, Big Data, SQL, NOSQL, and various other technologies
  • Exposure to object oriented programing, relational database technologies, distributed computing tech (Hadoop, spark), RESTful API, WebUI (HTML 5) and Modern JS frameworks
  • Understanding of iOS and Android environments

Behaviors & Abilities Required:

  • Ability to learn and adapt in a fast paced environment, while producing quality code
  • Ability to work collaboratively on a cross-functional team with a wide range of experience levels
  • Ability to write code that is technically sound, performant, scalable, and readable
  • Ability to collaborate with business owners to understand and refine business requirements

Ability and willingness to demonstrate ownership of an area of athena’s technology

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