HealthPartners · 1 day ago
Data Engineer Principal
HealthPartners is hiring a Data Engineer, Principal to improve patient and member experience through data. The role involves building and optimizing data pipelines, collaborating with teams, and providing technical leadership in data architecture and processes.
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Responsibilities
All team members must champion and model our values of partnership, curiosity, compassion, integrity, and excellence, and must contribute to a culture of continuous learning
Work with stakeholders, data scientists and analysts to frame problems, clean and integrate data, and determine the best way to provision that data on demand
Collaborate with other engineers to design technology solutions that achieve measurable results at scale
Collaborate with data scientists to train, develop and operationalize learning models
Provide technical thought leadership for efficient data pipeline processes, warehouse architecture and business intelligence functions
Identify, design and implement software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging, or designing software applications, operating systems, and databases according to provided design specifications
Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture
Assist in the development of short, medium, and long-term plans to achieve strategic objectives
Guide, mentor, influence, and adopt a cloud-first modern data architectural direction, and consistently adopt the associated standards and best practices
Monitor and analyze information and data systems and evaluate their performance to discover ways of enhancing them (such as new technologies and upgrades)
Collaborate with cross-function engineering teams to design interfaces that support data integration with internal and external platforms
Data engineers perform other duties as required, to meet team sprint goals
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, data or social science, operations research, statistics, applied mathematics, econometrics, or a related quantitative field AND 4 or more years of experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling and/or data engineering work OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software is acceptable
10 or more years of programming experience with command in at least two or more of the following programming languages: SQL, Python, Java, R or Spark
Expert proficiency in SQL; experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server
10 or more years of experience using a combination of tools such as Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Data Explorer, App Insights, Power BI, and Databricks
3 or more years of experience using Azure CosmosDB and Azure Data Lake Storage
Must be motivated, self-driven, curious, and creative
Proven ability to lead projects and teams with minimal guidance
Must be skilled communicator, and demonstrate an ability to work with end users and business leaders
Demonstrate the ability to support and complement the work of a diverse development and/or operations team
Lead a collaborative, cross-functional team, Active participation in sprint reviews
Expert and a minimum of five year's experience in the following domains: Data management, software engineering, I&O (infrastructure and operations)
Preferred
Knowledge of health care operations
Exposure to agile/scrum
Ability to work in a hybrid cloud environment consisting of on premise and public cloud infrastructure. An ideal candidate will have experience with one or more of the following skill sets
Expert in Relational databases like Oracle, SQL server
Expert in Optimizing and tuning SQL/Oracle queries, stored procedures and triggers
Expert in Python (numpy, pandas, matplotlib etc) and Jupyter notebooks for exploratory data analysis, machine learning, and process automation
Expert in areas of CI/CD, Continuous testing, and site reliability engineering
Expert in Microsoft Azure applications such as Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Purview, Databricks /Spark, Power BI, PowerApps
Expert in event streaming tools like NiFi, Kafka and Flink
Expert in data processing tools, like Apache's Sqoop, Spark and Hive
Expert in Document or NoSQL datastores, particularly MongoDB
Expert in Power BI data models using advanced Power Query and DAX
Expert in in AI/ML Ops
Interest and desire to contribute to emerging practices around DataOps (CI/CD, IaC, configuration management, etc.)
Collaborate effectively with product management, program management, engineers, and stakeholders
Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
Ability to influence without authority and thrive in an ambiguous environment
Benefits
Health Insurance
Company
HealthPartners
HealthPartners, an integrated health care organization providing health care services and health plan financing and administration, was founded in 1957 as a cooperative.
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$116M2020-05-07Debt Financing· $110M
2016-05-02Grant· $6M
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