Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · 2 weeks ago
Imaging Data Engineer III
Philadelphia, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$115K/yr - $152K/yr
6+ years expChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is seeking an experienced Imaging Data Engineer to join their Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine. The role involves supporting healthcare research initiatives through database management, optimizing data systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance data integration and reporting.
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Responsibilities
Assemble and maintain large, complex imaging data sets that meet clinical research requirements. Validate data to ensure quality
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc
Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources (including ground, hybrid cloud, and cloud) using SQL and various programming technologies
Data Integration & Modeling – evaluate structured and unstructured data, incorporate new data, determine the most appropriate schema for new fact tables, data marts, etc. while maintaining enterprise best practices and adhering to data governance standards
Reporting – collaborate with colleagues across the enterprise to scope requests. Extract data from various data sources, validate results, create relevant data visualizations, and share with requester. Develop dashboards and automate refreshes as appropriate
Governance / Best Practices – adhere and contribute to enterprise data governance standards. Also educates and supports colleagues in best practices to ensure that data is used appropriately
Product Ownership – collaborate and act as the voice of the customer to offer concrete feedback and project requests as well as an advocate for analytics from within the business units themselves
Develop analytics tools that utilize data resources to provide actionable insights, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics
Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Clinical, and Analyst teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
Develop optimized tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing projects into an innovative industry leader
Proficient at integrating predictive and prescriptive models into applications and processes
Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management
Make recommendations about platform adoption, including technology integrations, application servers, libraries, and frameworks
Be a critical part of an Agile Scrum software development team, ensuring the team successfully meets its deliverables each sprint
Performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
Supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree - Required
At least six (6) years Data Engineering/Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing experience - Required
Strong analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets
Must possess critical thinking and creative problem solving skills along with the ability to communicate well with stakeholders throughout the organization
Strong communication, project management and organizational skills
Highly proficient in SQL
Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including IBM PDA (Netezza), MS SQL Server and HBase
Experience with data integration tools: Informatica, MS Integration Services, Sqoop, etc
Experience with cloud vendors and services: AWS, Google, Microsoft, IBM
Experience with stream-processing systems: IBM Streams, Flume, Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc
Experience consuming and building APIs
Experience with object-oriented/object function programming languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc
Experience with statistical data analysis tools: R, SAS, SPSS, etc
Experience with visual analytics tools: QlikView, Tableau, Power BI etc
Experience utilizing Agile methodology for development
Familiarity with electronic health record and financial systems. i.e. Epic Systems, Cerner, WorkDay, Infor, Strata etc
Preferred
Master's Degree Computer Science, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field - Preferred
At least six (6) years Data Engineering/Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing experience in a healthcare environment - Preferred
At least ten (10) years Data Engineer role - Preferred
Imaging (DICOM) or other biomedical/life sciences data
Programming experience (Python strongly preferred) and use of APIs and RESTful web services
Tableau, R-Shiny, or similar data visualization tools
Database design and management, relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL preferred
Working knowledge of GitHub
Cloud platforms (such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform)
Company
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Since its start in 1855 as the nation's first hospital devoted exclusively to caring for children, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has been the birthplace for many dramatic firsts in pediatric medicine.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$33.35MKey Investors
UnitedHealthcare Community PlanNational Cancer InstituteBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2025-12-10Grant· $1.7M
2025-09-29Grant· $1M
2025-06-18Grant· $1M
Leadership Team
Ron Keren
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer
Adam Resnick
Director of the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (D3b)
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