Senior Staff Data Engineer

HCA Healthcare

Nashville, TN

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Agile Programming Methodologies, Analysis Skills, Apache Avro, Architectural Analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Best Practices, Business Analysis, Business Architecture, CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) Displays, Clinical Outcomes, Cloud Computing, Coaching, Communication Skills, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Computer Workstations, Configuration Management, Consulting, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cost Control, Data Analysis, Data Clustering, Data Fusion, Data Management, Ecosystems, Entrepreneurship, Establish Priorities, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), GitHub, Go Programming Language (Golang), HL7 (Health Level 7), Healthcare, Information Technology & Information Systems, Integration Testing, Interpersonal Skills, JSON, Java, Keyboards, Leadership, Linux Operating System, Mentoring, Multitasking, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Operating Systems, Patient Care, Performance Testing, Philosophy, Physical Demands, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quality Assurance Methodology, Reporting Dashboards, Requirements Management, SQL (Structured Query Language), Sales Closing Skills, Service Level Agreement (SLA), Software Engineering, Structured Data, Team Building, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Test Driven Development (TDD), Test Plan/Schedule, Testing, Time Management, Unit Test, Unix Operating Systems, Unstructured Data, Willing to Travel, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Nashville, TN
POSTED
2 days ago

This is OUR story... and YOUR next chapter
At HCA Healthcare, our Digital Transformation and Innovation (DT&I) team is redefining what’s possible inpatient care. By leveraging the power of artificial intelligence, automation, and digital technologies, DT&I is helping drive meaningful improvements in clinical outcomes, reduce manual workload, and expand the reach of our care teams. If you're passionate about using technology to improve human life, this is where your work truly matters
What you will accomplish in this role

The Senior Staff Data Engineer serves as a primary development resource for design, writing code, test, implementation, document functionality, and maintain of NextGen solutions for the GCP Cloud enterprise data initiatives. This role requires working closely with data teams, frequently in a matrixed environment as part of a broader project team. As a senior-level position the role requires ‘self-starters’ who are proficient in problem solving and capable of bringing clarity to complex situations. The culture of the organization places an emphasis on teamwork, so social and interpersonal skills are equally important as technical capability. Due to the emerging and fast-evolving nature of GCP technology and practice, the position requires that one stay well-informed of technological advancements and be proficient at putting new innovations into effective practice.

In addition, this candidate will have a history of increasing responsibility in a small multi-role team. This position requires a candidate who can analyze business requirements, perform design tasks, construct, test, and implement solutions with minimal supervision. This candidate will have a record of accomplishment of participation in successful projects in a fast-paced, mixed team (consultant and employee) environment. In addition, the applicant must be willing to mentor other developers to prepare them for assuming their responsibilities.

As a Senior Staff Data Engineer, you will collaborate closely with all team members to create a modular, scalable solution that addresses current needs, but will also serve as a foundation for future success. The position will be critical in building the team’s engineering practices in test driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment and is a hands-on team member who actively coaches the team to solve complex problems. 


What you will do:

Core Competencies

The following are highlighted entrepreneurial competencies and core expectations for the job/role:

  • Communication and interpersonal skills
  • Problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
  • Understand strategic imperatives.
  • Technology & business knowledge

 

At HCA DT&I, your deliverables will influence patient care. Every process, technology, and decision matters. This role will provide application development for specific business environments. Focus on setting technical direction on groups of applications and similar technologies as well as taking responsibility for technically robust solutions encompassing all business, architecture, and technology constraints.

  • Work closely with the Architecture team, Product Owner, Product Analysts, data architects, data analysts, data engineers, and stakeholders to understand product requirements and then design, build, and monitor data platforms and pipelines that meet today's requirements but can gracefully scale.
  • Implement automated workflows that lower manual/operational costs, define and uphold SLAs for timely delivery of data, and move the company closer to democratizing data.
  • Enable self-service data architecture supporting query exploration, dashboards, data catalog, and rich data discovery.
  • Promote a collaborative team environment that prioritizes effective communication, team member growth, and success of the team over success of the individual.
  • Produce high quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates best practices and serves as an example for less experienced engineers.
  • Promote and support data security best practices that align with industry standards and regulatory and legal requirements.
  • Help mentor team members on complex data projects and following the Agile process.
  • Help lead data analysis efforts and solution proposals to data related and data architecture problems.
  • Help lead implementation of unit and integration tests and promote and conduct performance testing where appropriate.
  • Be a leader in the HCA data community. Evangelize data engineering best practices and standards, participate, or present at community events, and encourage the continual growth and development of others.
  • Be curious. Be growth minded. Encourage and enable this in others.
  • Demonstrate professional and personal maturity through self-leadership.
  • Build productive and healthy relationships within the department and other teams to foster growth of our culture, our people, and our platforms.
  • Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” philosophy and “Mission and Value Statement.”
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
  • Work independently, and complete tasks on-schedule by exercising strong judgment and problem-solving skills.
  • Proven experience effectively prioritizing workload to meet deadlines and work objectives.
  • Works in an environment with rapidly changing business requirements and priorities
  • Shares knowledge and experience to contribute to growth of overall team capabilities.
  • Actively participate in technical group discussions and adopt any modern technologies to improve the development and operations.
  • Responsible for building and supporting a GCP based ecosystem designed for enterprise-wide analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data using medallion architecture.
  • Bring new streaming/batch data sources into GCP, transform and load to databases and support regular requests to move data from one cluster to another.
  • Develop a strong understanding of relevant product area, codebase, and/or systems.
  • Produce high quality code with good test coverage, using modern abstractions and frameworks.
  • Work independently, and complete tasks on-schedule by exercising strong judgment and problem-solving skills.
  • Analyze requirements, design AI agent-based solutions, and integrate those solutions for customer environments.
  • Closely collaborates with team members to successfully execute development initiatives using Agile practices and principles. 
  • Participates in the deployment, change, configuration, management, administration and maintenance of deployment process and systems.
  • Works in an environment with rapidly changing business requirements and priorities
  • Demonstrates deep understanding and acts as a leader in the team’s continuous integration and continuous delivery automation pipeline

    What qualifications you will need:

    • Bachelor's degree in computer science, related technical field, or equivalent experience required
    • Master's degree in computer science or related field preferred
    • 5+ years of experience in Data Engineer required
    • 1+ year(s) of experience in Healthcare preferred
    • 10+ years of experience in Information Technology required

    A successful candidate will have:

    • Strong understanding of best practices and standards for GCP Data process design and implementation.

    • Experience with HL7 data
    • Three Years of hands-on experience with GCP platform and experience with many of the following components:
    • Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions
    • Spark Streaming, Kafka, Pub/Sub
    • Bigtable, Firestore, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner
    • HL7, FHIR, JSON, Avro, Parquet
    • Python, GoLang, Java
    • BigQuery, Dataflow, Data Fusion
    • Cloud Composer, DataProc, CI/CD, Cloud Logging
    • Vertex AI, NLP, GitHub
    • Ability to multitask and to balance competing priorities.
    • Ability to define and utilize best practice techniques and to impose order in a fast-changing environment. Must have strong problem-solving skills.
    • Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills, including a desire to work within a highly-matrixed, team-oriented environment.
    • Hardware/Operating Systems:
    • Linux, UNIX
    • GCP
    • Distributed, highly-scalable processing environments
    • Certifications (a plus, but not required):
    • GCP Cloud Professional Data Engineer

    PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS (Specific statements of physical effort required and description of work environment, e.g., prolonged sitting at CRT. required travel %)

    • Prolonged sitting or standing at computer workstations including use of mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
    • Requires ability to provide after-hours support.

    At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to fostering a culture of growth that allows you to build the career of a lifetime. We encourage you to apply for our Senior Staff Data Engineer today. We review all applications promptly, and qualified candidates will be contacted to continue the process. Join us!

    We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

    About the Company

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    HCA Healthcare

    At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.

    HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.

    And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.

    COMPANY SIZE
    10,000 employees or more
    INDUSTRY
    Healthcare Services
    FOUNDED
    1968
    WEBSITE
    http://hcahealthcare.com/