Quality Data Engineer

Gold Coast Health Plan will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

The pay range above represents the minimum and maximum rate for this position in California. Factors that may be used to determine where newly hired employees will be placed in the pay range include the employee specific skills and qualifications, relevant years of experience and comparison to other employees already in this role. Most often, a newly hired employee will be placed below the midpoint of the range. Salary range will vary for remote positions outside of California and future increases will be based on the pay band for the city and state you reside in.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Quality Data Engineer will work with the Quality business unit and IT resources to develop solutions for operational and ad-hoc reporting, ETL, data driven business decisions, and systems integration from technical specifications based on customer and business needs, industry best practices and available technology.

The Quality Data Engineer will deliver quality and value in a fast-paced, dynamic environment to support our Medicare and Medi-Cal programs through transforming clinical data to inform quality improvement efforts and strategic decision making, collaboration with partners across the organization and support of the HEDIS program and related activities. 

The Quality Data Engineer will perform assigned tasks and duties of limited complexity and scope; supporting designated software package(s), business solution(s), or program(s) of work independently or under the general direction of a Senior Developer or Manager. The Quality Data Engineer through identification, analysis, synthesis, technical specifications, and solution development based on customer and business needs, industry best practices and available technology.  

Amount of Travel Required: 5%

Work Schedule: Travel to multiple sites and locations. Work protracted or irregular hours and evening meetings, or unusual hours for meeting attendance or participation in specific projects or programs.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statements

•    Primary function: Uses analytical, data and SQL development skills to produce reports to support the Business in making data driven business decisions. Includes producing both ad-hoc and regularly scheduled reports. Reviews data to ensure validity. 

•    Under the technical direction of more senior developers, works with Business Systems Analysts, Business Stakeholders, vendors, and solutions partners to develop solutions for operational and ad-hoc reporting, ETL, data driven business decisions support, and systems integration.

•    Develop SQL Server stored procedures, functions, views and triggers to be used during the development lifecycle and ETL process.  Implement processes and logic to extract, transform, and distribute data across one or more data stores from a wide variety of sources. 

•    Provides analysis and development support for initiatives, including business function support for system migrations and consolidations, business area process improvement projects, and product installations

•    Consumes departmental business system requirements and business systems design documents, customer acceptance test plans, and post-implementation plans.

•    Provide Continuous monitoring of quality measure data (numerators and Denominators), identify data irregularities, monitor the Data Quality team and their projects. Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.

•    Review of use cases and test cases.

•    Executes system testing.

•    Facilitates and support user acceptance testing.

•    Perform and execute data extraction, transformation and loading using ETL tools.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Competency Statements

•    Technical Aptitude - Ability to comprehend complex technical topics and specialized information.

•    Working knowledge of current quality measures and data best practice in the healthcare industry demonstrated in recent professional experience.

•    Research, analytical, organization, and time/project management skills required. Ability to work in a self-directed manner with minimal direction and oversight.

•    Experience building quality data integrations in a complex provider or health plan environment.