Data Engineering Consultant V - Medicare, Medicaid, Claims, SQL, SAS, Python, DataBricks

Kaiser Permanente

Oakland, CA(remote)

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$158,300–$204,820 Per Year
SKILLS
Algorithms, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Analytical Development, Biology, Business Analysis, Business Intelligence, Business Model, Business Plan, Caching, Cloud Computing, Consulting, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Quality, Data Sets, Data Visualization, Data Visualization Tools, Database Administration, Database Technology, Docker, Documentation, Engineering Consulting, Help Desk, Leadership, Mathematics, Medicaid, Medicare, Mentoring, Metrics, Microsoft Windows Azure, Model Validation, Needs Assessment, NoSQL, Performance Reviews, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Physical Science, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Project Planning, Project Tracking, Project/Program Management, Python Programming/Scripting Language, React.js, Relational Databases (RDBMS), Requirements Management, SQL (Structured Query Language), Statistical Modeling, Statistical Programming Languages, Statistics, Support Documentation, Systems Scalability, Technical Training, Test Automation, Time Management, Training/Teaching, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Vendor/Supplier Management, eCommerce
LOCATION
Oakland, CA
POSTED
Today
Overview:
Full-stack data engineer with equal depth in backend and frontend, delivering end-to-end features from UI/UX to services and data. Strong in Python (FastAPI/Flask) building secure, versioned REST/GraphQL APIs and microservices. Proven microservices architecture experience: service boundaries, async/event-driven messaging, resilience patterns, and API gateways. Frontend expertise in React and Angular with component-driven design, performance optimization, and accessibility-first UI. Solid data skills across SQL/NoSQL, caching, migrations, and query tuning for scalable, reliable systems. Production-ready delivery: Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, cloud (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform), observability (logs/metrics/tracing), and automated testing.

Job Summary:
This individual contributor is primarily responsible for driving strategic data-informed decisions, gathering data and information on targeted variables in an established systematic fashion, preparing data for analytic efforts, and interpreting complex data analyses. This position drives the execution of creative data analytic approaches leading to actionable outcomes across functional areas, business and/or clinical lines, designs, implements, and automates business and reporting solutions, and leads the development of advanced analytical and/or statistical models enabling informed business decisions.

Essential Responsibilities:
  • Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
  • Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and evaluating recommendations made by others.
  • Interprets complex data analyses by applying findings to contextual settings; and developing insights, reports, and presentations telling a compelling story to stakeholders to enable and influence decision making; participating in peer reviews; and providing context related to data interpretations and/or limitations as appropriate.
  • Leads the development of advanced analytical and/or statistical models enabling informed business decisions by determining data and analytical requirements; translating models and gaining stakeholder buy-in for implementation; creating complex models leading to actionable insights; and testing, refining, and validating models.
  • Designs, implements, and automates business and reporting solutions by partnering with stakeholders to advise in their design, planning, and implementation while ensuring consistency and coherency; evaluating and summarizing data and results; creating summary statistics; designing data reports, visualizations, and/or interactive Business Intelligence (BI) reports; reporting to stakeholders on key findings; identifying needs for the development and implementation of additional reporting solutions; and preparing documentation as appropriate.
  • Drives the execution of creative data analytic approaches leading to actionable outcomes across functional areas, business and/or clinical lines by defining and calculating complex metrics to be analyzed; defining, calculating, and validating algorithms; and conducting complex analyses, including descriptive, correlational, inferential, and/or predictive statistics.
  • Prepares data for analytic efforts by integrating and consolidating data; ensuring data quality and accuracy; profiling data inaccuracies and recommending process improvements or system changes to enhance overall quality of the data; collaborating with stakeholders and source system owners to resolve data quality issues as appropriate; and cleaning and creating final data set(s) for analysis.
  • Gathers data and information on targeted variables in an established systematic fashion by validating data sources; querying, merging, and extracting data across internal and external sources; completing routine data refresh and update; developing and/or delivering complex tools for electronic data collection; and providing user training, support, and documentation.
  • Drives strategic data-informed decisions by consulting with clients and leadership to identify and clarify key business needs across functional areas, business and/or clinical lines; developing outcomes and process measures; translating business requirements; determining data/information needs and data collection methods; developing complex analysis plans; evaluating the impact of business decisions on clients, customers, and/or members; partnering with clients and staff to identify opportunities and methods to improve efficiencies with analysis; supporting and training end-users; and documenting processes and deliverables.
Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
  • Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Social/Physical/Life Science, Business, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in data analytics or a directly related field. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Additional Requirements:

  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Negotiation; Business Planning; Written Communication; Data Extraction; Data Mining; Data Visualization Tools; Statistical Programming Language; Relational Database Management; Vendor Management; Project Management
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Three (3) years project management experience.
  • Three (3) years relational database experience.

Primary Location: California,Oakland,Ordway Additional Locations:
  • Pasadena
  • Honolulu
  • Atlanta
  • Rockville
  • Aurora
  • Portland
  • Washington
  • Alexandria
  • Renton

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Remote
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-PO-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: Po/Ho Corp - Medicare LOB Admin - 0308
Pay Range: $158300 - $204820 / year Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente.
Travel: No
Remote: Work location is the remote workplace (from home) within KP authorized states. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

About the Company

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Kaiser Permanente

At Kaiser Permanente, we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence. Driven by our mission to provide the highest quality preventive medicine, we are committed to eliminating health care disparities, and to making lives better through innovation, technology, and research. Our desire to deliver the best possible care inspires us to promote wellness among our members, communities, and each other. It also fuels our belief that everyone — regardless of circumstance — deserves access to affordable care, which further drives our motivation to expand our reach. Founded nearly 80 years ago, our unique business model sets us apart — positioning us to drive improvements across the industry and around the world.
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Healthcare Services
FOUNDED
1945
WEBSITE
http://www.kp.org/careers