✨ About The Role
- The Senior Data Engineer will design creative data engineering solutions to address business challenges in the healthcare industry.
- This role involves rapidly iterating on development to achieve product-market fit for early-stage products.
- The engineer will own and automate healthcare data ETL processes, transforming complex data structures into a common data model.
- Building high reliability and scalable data pipelines from data ingestion to consumption by various analysts is a key responsibility.
- The position requires collaboration with clinicians, product managers, and data experts to define and maintain data models for healthcare use cases.
- The engineer will follow best practices in data engineering, including code reviews, version control, and data integrity checks.
- Proactive documentation of code, release notes, and decisions is expected to ensure clarity and transparency in the development process.
- The role may involve occasional travel (less than 10%) to attend company gatherings, primarily in Chicago.
âš¡ Requirements
- The ideal candidate will have over 6 years of experience in data engineering or a similar field, demonstrating a strong background in software engineering.
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala is essential for success in this role.
- Experience in building data pipelines in a cloud environment is crucial, along with familiarity with tools like Airflow and dbt.
- A deep understanding of data architectures, including Data Lakes and Data Warehouses, is necessary to effectively manage complex data structures.
- The candidate should possess exceptional data modeling and database design skills, with a focus on maintaining data integrity.
- A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related quantitative field is preferred.
- The successful individual will be comfortable working in a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and agile development environment.
- Knowledge of clinical data elements and healthcare information models will be beneficial for this position.