Data Engineer (Remote Available)

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:  Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization:

HealthIT Data Platform Services

Job Summary:

The Data Platform Services team is seeking a Data Engineer with an inquisitive and analytical mindset to join our data engineering team. In your role, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing our cloud-based data infrastructure, as well as designing and implementing efficient data extraction and ingestion processes. You will also be responsible for working with stakeholders to identify data needs, investigating opportunities to improve platform scalability, building generic solutions for patterned problems, and ensuring data accuracy and integrity.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

With occasional guidance:

• Design and develop performant data pipelines that support a variety of source system types (flat files, APIs, databases, etc.)

• Troubleshoot issues with production pipelines and work with internal stakeholders to deploy fixes

• Develop tools and services used by other teams to create, test, and deliver data-related assets

• Provide administration support for our Azure Databricks platform

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree

• 2+ years Python and/or C## in an OOP paradigm experience

• 2+ years implementing cloud solutions with Azure, AWS, or GCP

• 1+ years with SQL experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with REST data services, APIs, and microservices

• Experience with Git

• Experience with containerization with Docker or Podman

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with Databricks or Apache Spark with certifications being a plus

• Experience with PowerShell and/or Bash

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code solutions such as Terraform

• Experience CI/CD automation in GitLab, GitHub, or Azure DevOps

• GitHub profile link to some personal code examples

About the Department:

Health IT

HealthIT provides the best health information technology tools that support Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mission of:

• Delivering distinctively personalized care

• Improving the health care of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally

• Providing transformative learning programs

• Supporting compelling discoveries

Our tools, which form the digital arteries of VUMC, are either developed in-house by our innovative product teams or selected from the most cutting-edge solutions available in today’s ever-changing marketplace. Our 500 colleagues provide ongoing support over each product’s entire lifespan, ensuring that the tools are meeting the evolving needs of the Medical Center’s 24,000 colleagues.

Our solutions are driven by the incredible work and research of our colleagues throughout Vanderbilt and supported through a close partnership with VUMC Information Technology (VUMC IT). The strong collaboration among our teams means that VUMC can respond to clinical and operational issues with agility and innovation. Together, we ensure VUMC remains a leader in its pioneering use of healthcare information technology.

Underscoring our entire department are our core values of accountability, transparency and execution, delivered with a strong