American Heart Association · 5 hours ago
Sr. Data Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$130K/yr - $140K/yr
3+ years expThe American Heart Association is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to join their National Center in Dallas, TX. The role involves designing integration architectures, ensuring data quality, and collaborating with various teams to enhance data governance and analytics within the organization.
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Responsibilities
Designs integration architectures, defines clinical data mappings from electronic health record data including imaging, develops data models, and consults with the infrastructure team on server and data storage services
Formulates and recommends standards for achieving maximum performance, compliance and efficiency of the database and delivery to researchers in the American Heart Association Precision Medicine Platform
Ensures accuracy and integrity of service-oriented architecture through analysis, coding, writing clear documentation and problem resolution. Reviews issues and enhancements documented in the incident management and project management system for consideration of business needs
Maintains in-depth current knowledge of standards, guidelines, and industry trends for Data Warehouse Architecture as it relates to reporting and operations. Attends and interacts with user groups and researches new software vendors in the market. Evaluates new data sources for adherence to the organization's quality standards and ease of integration
Fosters use of self-service analytics, data governance and visual discovery while guiding changes and limited reliance on manual data processes. Builds proof of concept and tangible results by sharing testing data
Participates in the planning for retirement of systems programs, and migration of systems infrastructure by providing current state and future state architectural diagrams
Works closely with Chief of Data Science and business groups within American Heart Association to ensure prioritization of corporate and department objectives within the portfolio management system
Provides guidance on Data Governance as it applies to enterprise data architecture choices
Champions data quality, integrity, and reliability throughout the department by designing data flow models and promoting development best practices with best of breed automation tools, working cross-functionally to ensure that data is made available timely and securely
Provides mentoring to Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) team members with technical expertise, complex systems, and/or programming knowledge. Provides on-the-job training for new or less experienced ETL team members
Provides technical training to external team members to encourage cross-department connections including the development and maintenance of standard operating procedures
Provides a methodology for the ongoing assessment of database performance and the identification of problem areas by holding regularly scheduled reviews of code and monitoring software
Develops business cases, impacts evaluation and ROI for department to get buy-in from senior management
Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope and responsibility of the job level and family
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university or equivalent work experience
Minimum of three years of experience (ten (10) years of experience preferred) of Data Mapping and Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) design and development experience with clinical electronic health record data and images
Minimum of three years of experience (eight (8) years of experience preferred) with Data modeling with an emphasis on ODS and Star schema models
Integration architecture design and implementation with electronic health records and images
Experience with Data Virtualization tools
Comprehensive knowledge in software development lifecycles/methodologies, i.e. agile
Strong presentation and collaboration skills and can communicate all aspects of the job requirements, including the creation of formal documentation
Fluent in relational database concepts and flat file processing concepts
Strong problem solving, time management and organizational skills
Preferred
Experience with Electronic health records and image mapping
Experience with Python, R, SQL
Experience with Cloud offerings
Experience with Amazon Web Services: S3, Glue, SageMaker, Lake Formation, Lambda, Athena, RedShift, EMR, etc
ETL Technology: AWS Glue, SSIS, DataStage, Informatica
Time series analysis, clustering, decision trees, and neural networks
Database/Data Virtualization Technology: Apache Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Hadoop, Cloudera, SQL Server, Oracle, Alteryx, Denodo
Business Intelligence Technology: SSRS, Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Disability
Life insurance
Robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution
Employee assistance program
Employee wellness program
Telemedicine
Medical consultation
Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year for new employees
12 paid holidays off each year
Tuition Assistance
Company
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary health organization.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (5)
2024 (1)
2023 (4)
2022 (3)
2021 (2)
2020 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$4.62MKey Investors
Stupski FoundationAmeriCorps Public AlliesCity Furniture
2025-08-14Grant· $0.1M
2024-07-09Grant· $2.7M
2024-06-06Grant· $0.69M
Leadership Team
Jennifer Hall
Chief, Data Science and Analytics
Lynne Braggs
National, Sr. Director Digital Content Production, Creative (Marketing)
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