Senior Data Engineer

In 2001, we set out to revolutionize the prescribing process. Today, our industry-leading solutions do much more than that: Our network supports 2 million providers, 324 million patients, and billions of transactions. Our solutions offer actionable patient intelligence at critical points of care for better decisions-from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating direct messages between providers.

We are at the center of the healthcare industry, serving doctors, nurses and pharmacists; health systems, independent practices and pharmacies; health plans, pharmacy benefit managers and electronic health record vendors.

Our goal is to deliver comprehensive patient information when and where it matters most. Join us.

What You're Like

You're relentless in getting stuff done. You apply your expertise in an Agile/DevOps world with other talented people. You're curious about new technology and use your curiosity as fuel to deliver meaningful solutions. And you're into incremental efforts that ultimately reap huge results.

What We're Like

We're a smart team that loves to work toward a common goal: delivering innovative, industry-leading solutions that improve patient care. We pride ourselves on quality work grounded in transparency and accountability. Our goal is to make a positive impact on healthcare, be it on quality, cost, or patient safety.

What the Work is Like

Is your thinking cap on? (Do they still make those?) Here, our challenge is to connect disparate, cross-functional skills to create the desired result. We focus on important milestones, work to understand diverse technologies and develop relationships with various groups of people with varied perspectives.

Job Summary

The Senior Data Engineer is a highly technical person that hands-on codes data processing solutions and scalable data pipelines to support analytics and exploratory analysis. This role ensures new business requirements are decomposed and implemented in cohesive end to end designs that enable data integrity and quality and best supports BI and analytic capability needs that power decision making at Surescripts. This includes building data acquisition programs that handle the business's growing data volume as part of the Data Lake and Data Warehouse ecosystem, along with maintaining a robust data catalog.

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for contributing to the continual improvement of the business's data and analytic solutions, processes and data engineering capabilities. This person embraces industry best practices and trends and through acquired knowledge, drives process and system improvement opportunities.

The Senior Data Engineer is part of a team who will partner with data and software engineers, BI professionals, Quality Assurance, Product Owners, business analysts, architects, and others across teams to achieve project and business goals.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement data pipelines that collect, connect, centralize, and curate data from various data sources to support analytic capabilities
• Build and implement solutions that support automation, data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management
• Perform and participate in the full software development lifecycle including providing estimates, iterations on designs, working code, design reviews, code reviews, testing, deployment, and monitoring to ensure system quality and reliability
• Interpret business needs and rapidly implements effective technical solutions
• Create technical design documents and supporting materials
• Participate in the designs of data infrastructure for scalability, availability, reliability
• Provide thought leadership to embrace modern data science and data analytics practices as a critical enabler for business outcomes
• Participate in the evaluation of new technologies for continuous improvement

Qualifications
Basic Requirements:
• Bachelor's Degree in the field of computer science, management information systems, or computer engineering
• 5+ years of experience in a data management or software engineering roles
• Experience building and optimizing 'big data' data pipelines
• Experience manipulating, processing and extracting value from datasets for analytic consumption
• Technically fluent in current tools and platforms for development, configuration, integration, data storage and management
• Experience with hands on Scala, Python, and/or Java
• Experience navigating Impala, Hive, Kudu, Hbase, and Oracle databases
• Strong SQL
• Knowledge of Data Integration, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, BI and analytic capabilities and concepts
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and/or external data and processes to answer specific business questions, troubleshoot, and support solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Engineering with Hadoop technologies
• Experience with high volume data processing
• Experience with scheduling and workload automation technology
• Experience with ETL tools
• Experience with data catalogs
• Experience with related information management disciplines (e.g. data quality management, master data management, metadata management, data governance, warehousing, BI and analytics)
• Experience with health care data
• Experience with Agile

We are currently working from home. Offices are open to those who want to go in with health safety protocols in place. This position will be eligible for a hybrid work schedule, where you will be able to split time between work from home and onsite work at our newly designed office.

Why Wait? Apply Now

We're a midsize company. This means that you're not just another employee ID number. Here, you can build real relationships and feel supported by truly awesome people with diverse backgrounds and talents in an innovative and collaborative work culture. We strive to create an environment where you feel like you belong. Be yourself, share your ideas, and work your way. We offer opportunities for learning, development and growth, as well as competitive compensation and benefits, plus flexible working arrangements. Click here to learn more about our benefits and working at Surescripts.

Physical and Mental Requirements

While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel (sometimes extensively), communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.

Surescripts is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Surescripts participates in E-Verify.

A requirement of this position is that you must be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to perform your essential job functions. Surescripts will consider accommodation requests as required by law for individuals unable to be vaccinated because of a medical condition or a sincerely held religious belief.

A Day in the Life

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