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Job Type
Full Time
Job Details
The Data Engineer is responsible for data acquisition strategies and integration, scripting and tools, data migrations, conversions, purging, and back-ups. The incumbent works with product, financial control, analysts, users, and other stakeholders to understand business requirements and support data architecture to build data acquisition strategies. The Data Engineer authors artifacts defining standards and definitions for storing, processing, and moving data including associated processes and business rules. Additionally, the Data Engineer maps the details within these their artifacts to business processes, non-functional characteristics, QA criteria and technical enablement. He/she constantly thinks through the needs of the business to support efficient and error-free processes. Duties and 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
- 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-premises 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
- Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $106,300 - $153,595
- All Other Locations (within approved locations): $97,000 - $144,330
About the Company
Healthfirst, Inc.
New York City, NY, United States
Healthfirst is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health insurers, offering members access to high-quality, affordable healthcare. The... Read more