Senior Data Engineer

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JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking a highly skilled and adaptable Senior FHIR Interoperability Engineer to drive the reliable movement, transformation, and storage of complex healthcare data using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards. In this pivotal senior-level role, you will collaborate with data architects, analysts, and other engineers to design, develop, implement, and optimize FHIR-enabled data pipelines. This includes ensuring data quality, integrity, and security across various platforms, from initial concept to ongoing support.

This role is essential for the secure and efficient exchange of patient clinical outcome data and payer claim and membership data between payers and providers. Your expertise will be critical in ensuring compliance with federal and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) mandates and directly contributing to Highmark Health's strategic "quintuple aim" objectives: reducing the cost of care, addressing health equity and access, improving health outcomes, and enhancing both customer and clinician/provider experiences.

Key Skills:

• Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
• ETL Tools & Scripting Languages: Python, PySpark, DBT
• Cloud & Big Data Platforms: Databricks, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Healthcare Data Engine (HDE), BigQuery, PostgreSQL
• Data Virtualization tools and frameworks: Starburst
• EHR Systems: Epic, Cerner (and similar)
• Cloud Orchestration: Terraform

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop, and maintain robust data processes and solutions to ensure the efficient movement and transformation of data across multiple systems

• Develop and maintain data models, databases, and data warehouses to support business intelligence and analytics needs

• Collaborate with stakeholders across IT, product, analytics, and business teams to gather requirements and provide data solutions that meet organizational needs

• Monitor work against production schedule,  provide progress updates, and report any issues or technical difficulties to lead developers regularly

• Implement and manage data governance practices, ensuring data quality, integrity, and compliance with relevant regulations.

• Collaborate on the design and implementation of data security measures, including access controls, encryption, and data masking

• Mentor other associate and intermediate data engineers as needed

• Perform data analysis and provide insights to support decision-making across various departments

• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in data engineering, recommending new tools and best practices as needed

• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EXPERIENCE

Required

• 5 years of experience in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in the building and deploying of scalable, highly available systems

• 5 years of experience in a data engineering, ETL development, or data management role.

• 5 years of experience in SQL and experience with database technologies (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

• 5 years of experience in data warehousing concepts and experience with data warehouse solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery)

Preferred

• Experience with data streaming and workflow management tools (e.g., Confluent Kafka/Flink, Google Dataflow), data virtualization tools and frameworks (e.g. Starburst), and SQL-structured pipeline development tools (DBT).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning automation and scripting, including Terraform.
• 7 years of experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs for optimizing short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities
• 7 years of experience working with a variety of technology systems, designing solutions or developing data solutions in healthcare
• 7 years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their respective data services
• 7 years of experience in data governance, data quality, and data security best practices
• 7 years of experience translating requirements, design mockups, prototypes or user st