Analytic Software Engineer IV (Remote)

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change.

Availity is a Healthcare IT company headquartered in Jacksonville, FL with an office in Indianapolis, IN and a significant US based remote workforce. Availity is the nation's largest health information network, connecting 2 million providers nationwide and processing more than 12 billion transactions a year, and growing! We work collaboratively with health plans and providers to disrupt an antiquated healthcare system by solving core issues in the way stakeholders communicate. Fixing the broken provider data management process and creating real time communication of risk and quality information are just two of the ways Availity is streamlining this process. Availity also offers providers, hospitals, and health systems revenue cycle and patient financial management solutions. We help prepare our providers for the rise in consumerism and value-based care, so that they can get paid accurately, and timely, for their services.

Our mission is to create connections and deliver products that help healthcare businesses succeed. We do this by connecting, delighting, and empowering the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem; providing multi-stakeholder solutions that simplify the business relationship between providers and health plans.

The Analytic Software Engineer IV is a senior technical role in our Business Intelligence Development team, focus on developing solutions to leverage big data to derive business-ready insights. The software engineer's primary role is to design and implement cloud-based data analytic solutions for reporting and dashboards. The individual will establish technology standards and promote software development best practices in the areas of data curation, analysis, and visualization. The individual will also liaise with business and technical leaders to deliver scalable, fault-tolerant, effective, and high-quality analytic solutions.

Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Location: Remote, US

Role qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (preferably Computer Science, Engineering, or other quantitative fields)
• 7+ years of related experience in designing and implementing production-grade data analytic solutions in Python and PySpark.
• 5+ years of experience working with large-scale data and developing SQL queries to extract insights (100 gigs or more).
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with data analytic cloud services, such as AWS EMR, Airflow, and RedShift.
• 3+ years of leveraging statistical techniques to cross-examine multiple data sources to surface patterns and data abnormalities.
• 3+ years of experience working within Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau, Cognos, Qlik, Pyramid.
• Experience in leading data analysts and data engineers in marrying data analytics disciplines with software engineering best practices to deliver big data solutions, including modularized pipeline design for big-data solutions, statistically-sound test-driven development, etc.
• Demonstrated knowledge in software development best practices such as Git, linting, unit/integration testing.
• Able to plan work, set clear direction, and coordinate tasks across multi-disciplinary team in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative attitude. This role is part of a larger, more dynamic team that nurtures collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills including discussions of technical concepts, conducting peer-programming sessions, and explaining development concepts.
• Flexible and able to embrace change.

To differentiate yourself, you:

• Experience in healthcare industry data such as X12, CPT/HCPCS, ICD-10.
• Experience in data architecture and cloud engineering.
• Experience working in an "Agile" and/or "Scrum" development environment using tools such as JIRA.
• Experience with operationalization and observability in a production environment.

What you will be doing:

• Design and implement scalable and resilient end-to-end data analytic pipelines.
• Translate complex analytical concepts into modularized software components to surface specific and actionable insights.
• Lead data analysts and data engineers to mature proof-of-concepts and harden them into data analytic solutions.
• Automate manual reporting and analytic processes to improve efficiency and improve user experience using cloud-native technologies.
• Investigate healthcare data, including medical procedures, health conditions, and provider practices.
• Apply business acumen to enhance data quality and curation methodologies to ensure accurate and reliable inputs to analysis and predictive modeling.
• Identify data abnormalities and their root causes and suggest possible steps for mitigation.
• Write and maintain unit and integrations testing suites, QA, and UAT scenarios.
• Contribute to software maintenance and deployment practices, including production code repo. and CI/CD pipeline processes such as git actions and hooks, package and environment creation and maintenance, and updating or implementing infrastructure as code.
• Coach, mentor, and knowledge share for growth of the team and quality improvement. Work with data analysts and data scientists to apply industry standards and optimize analytic jobs.

Availity culture and benefits:

• Availity is a certified "Great Place to Work"! Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams, a Young Professionals Group, a She Can Code IT group for women in tech, and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates.
• Availity is a culture of continuous learning. We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
• Don't feel like wearing business attire? Cool, you can wear jeans - we are a casual place.
• We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
• We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays. Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
• Interested in wellness? We allow our associates to reimburse up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• Interested in furthering your education? We offer education reimbursement!
• Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
• Want to work for an organization that gives back to the community? You're at the right place! Availity partners with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.

Availity perks for remote, hybrid and office-based associates:

• We offer a flexible working environment! Whether you are a fully remote associate or one that enjoys a hybrid or fully onsite approach we are flexible to help ensure you have a working environment to thrive in!
• All associates have the opportunity to have 1on1 sessions with their supervisor or manager to help facilitate transparency and growth within the organization
• Availity holiday parties/events are available to ALL associates no matter if you are fully remote or have a hybrid or onsite schedule
• You like food trucks? We have them almost daily at our office (when we're back to normal)
• Like food trucks a little too much? We also have an onsite gym with showers
• We appreciate work/life balance! Need to get a quick break in between meetings? We have Ping Pong, Foosball, Arcade games, and XBox to help you decompress - and we have a massage therapist onsite once a week for a little relaxation too
• We've got you covered with free coffee, lemonade and tea anytime you want

Next steps:

After you apply, you will receive text/email messages thanking you for applying and then you will continue to receive more text/email messages alerting you as to where you are in the recruitment process.

Interview process:

• Recruiter phone screen
• Manager resume review
• Manager video interview
• Team video interview

Availity is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions in employment matters without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Availity is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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