Job Description/PDQ

Date Job Title Senior Data Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Data Engineer is primarily responsible for participating in the design, development, and implementation of solutions for
the data warehouse. The primary focus of the data warehouse includes data and analytics that support business operations
including Clinical, Patient Accounting, and Corporate functions.

This role is cloud facing and requires hands on experience in building and managing data engineering code in modern cloud-based
technologies such as Google Big Query or equivalent. We are looking for a high energy individual willing to learn and evolve and
would like to contribute to high impact healthcare environment. People who are experienced in Teradata BTEQ, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL
Server T-SQL or Netezza can also be considered if they are willing to work hard and learn Google Big Query can also be conisdered

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Beginning with the most important, briefly state the major duties and responsibilities of this job, percent of total job and frequency of each activity.
% of Total Frequency
Priority Description of Responsibilities Job (should = (daily, weekly,
100%) monthly)
Assembling large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business
1.
requirements
Identifying, designing, and implementing internal process improvements including re-
2. designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating
manual processes
Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data
3.
from various data sources using GCP and SQL technologies
Building analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key
4.
business performance metrics
Working with stakeholders including data, design, product, and executive teams and
5.
assisting them with data-related technical issues
Working with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to
6.
support their data infrastructure needs while assisting with data-related technical issues
Participates in unit and system testing and follow existing change control processes for
7.
promoting solutions to production system, escalating issues as needed.
Design, develop, review, test, and deploy using CICD to facilitate the data warehouse
8.
solutions.
Identifies data integrity issues and analyzes data and process flows for process
9.
improvement opportunities.
Monitoring system performance and evaluate query execution plans for improving overall
10.
system performance.
11. Perform code reviews and assist developers in optimization and troubleshooting.
12. Participate in troubleshooting and maintaining existing solutions as required.
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KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The list below are representative of the
knowledge, skill and/or ability. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required:
• Strong SQL and relational database design/development skills
• Strong hands-on data warehousing development experience: Teradata BTEQ, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server T-SQL or
Netezza can also be considered if they are willing to work hard and learn Google Big Query
• Experience in building data models for data warehouse
• Ability to build and optimize data sets, ‘big data’ data pipelines and architectures
• Ability to perform root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement
and answer questions
• Excellent analytic skills associated with working on unstructured datasets
• Ability to build processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependency, and
metadata
• Development experience with cloud-based modern data warehouses such as Google Big Query or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Strong interpersonal skills- ability to communicate with all levels of customers, vendors, and IT resources

Preferred:
• Prior experience with health information systems and/or patient financial service systems preferred
• Applicants should also have a demonstrated understanding and experience using software and tools including big data
tools like Kafka, Spark; relational SQL databases including Big Query or equivalent; workflow management and pipeline
tools such as Airflow, and object function/object-oriented scripting languages including Scala, C++, Java and Python.
• Working knowledge of hospital information systems and understanding of health care system integration
• Cerner, Meditech, CPSI, Allscripts, EPIC, McKesson, NextGen data integration experience a plus

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

Include minimum education, technical training, and/or experience for the job.

Required:
• Bachelors’ degree from an accredited college/university in technology related field or equivalent combination of education,
training, and experience.

Preferred:
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REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURE

Include minimum certification required to perform the job.

SUBORDINATES

• Number of employees directly reporting to this position: _0____

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Be in a stationary position approximately 50% of the time, use computer and answer telephone
• Occasionally moves through hospital-based departments across broad campus settings, including Emergency Department
environments
• Travel _0__ % of the time
Tip: Avoid words such as hear, talk, stand, walk, see… add the frequency of the physical demand and weight if possible.