Healthfirst · 10 hours ago
Senior Data Engineer
New York, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$135K/yr - $194K/yr
8+ years expHealthfirst is a healthcare organization seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead and implement data management strategies. The role involves designing standardized data management procedures, ensuring data quality, and developing data acquisition strategies to support the company's strategic goals.
Commercial InsuranceHealth CareHealth InsuranceInsurance
Responsibilities
Designs and implements standardized data management procedures around data staging, data ingestion, data preparation, data provisioning, and data destruction (e.g., scripts, programs, automation, etc.)
Ensures quality of technical solutions as data moves across multiple zones and environments
Provides insight into the changing data environment, data processing, data storage and utilization requirements for the company, and offer suggestions for solutions
Ensures managed analytic assets to support the company’s strategic goals by creating and verifying data acquisition requirements and strategy
Develops, constructs, tests, and maintains architectures
Aligns architecture with business requirements and uses programming language and tools
Identifies ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality
Conducts research for industry and business questions
Deploys sophisticated analytics programs, machine learning, and statistical methods to efficiently implement solutions
Prepares data for predictive and prescriptive modeling and find hidden patterns using data
Uses data to discover tasks that can be automated
Creates data monitoring capabilities for each business process and works with data consumers on updates
Aligns data architecture to the solution architecture; contributes to overall solution architecture
Develops patterns for standardizing the environment technology stack
Helps maintain the integrity and security of company data
Additional duties as assigned or required
Qualification
Required
8+ Years overall IT experience
Enterprise experience in scripting languages primarily Python and Pyspark building enterprise frameworks
Enterprise experience in data ingestion methodologies using different etl tools(Glue,DBT or any other)
Enterprise experience in data warehousing concepts and big data technologies like EMR, Hadoop
Enterprise experience in any cloud infrastructure like AWS,GCP,Azure
Strong SQL expertise across different relational and NoSQL Databases
Preferred
Strong knowledge of data security, encryption, and compliance standards
Hands-on experience with CI//CD pipelines and DevOps practices in a data engineering environment
Experience in API building
Experience building stream platform
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision coverage
Incentive and recognition programs
Life insurance
401k contributions
Company
Healthfirst
Healthfirst is a health insurer providing medical, business, and health insurance services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Pat Wang
President and CEO
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