HCA Healthcare | Cloud Data Engineer | Nashville, TN | United States | BigDataKB.com | 2023-01-27

Introduction

Are you looking for a work environment where diversity and inclusion thrive? Submit your application for our Senior Staff Data Engineer opening with HCA Healthcare today and find out what it truly means to be a part of the HCA Healthcare team.

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Fertility and family building benefits through Progyny
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
• Family support, including adoption assistance, child and elder care resources and consumer discounts
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Retirement readiness and rollover services and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

We are seeking a Senior Staff Data Engineer for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. Did you get into our industry for these reasons? We are an amazing team that works hard to support each other and are seeking a phenomenal addition like you who feels patient care is as meaningful as we do. We want you to apply!

Position Summary

Data Engineers within HCA’s Information and Analytics organization are responsible for defining and implementing data management practices across the enterprise. This full-time position will focus primarily on enterprise data management and migrating of data to the cloud. Data Engineers are expected to source and incorporate new data sources into the Enterprise Data Ecosystem. The responsibilities will include writing, testing, and reviewing ETL pipelines for defining and implementing data management practices across the enterprise. Due to the emerging and fast-evolving nature of Cloud technology and practice, the position requires that one stay well-informed of technological advancements and be proficient at putting new innovations into effective practice.

As a Data Engineer, you will work closely with all team members to create a modular, scalable solution that addresses current needs, but will also serve as a foundation for future success. The position will be critical in building the team’s engineering practices in test driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment and is a hands-on team member who actively coaches the team to solve complex problems. This is a leadership position that assumes the responsibility for project success and the upward development of team members. They are the development team’s point of contact that must interface with business partners of varying roles ranging from technical staff to executive leadership.

As a Sr Staff Data Engineer level, the role requires ‘self-starters’ who are proficient in problem solving and capable of bringing clarity to complex situations. It requires contributing to strategic technical direction and system architecture approaches for individual projects and platform migrations. It also requires working closely with others, frequently in a matrixed environment, and with little supervision. This candidate will have a history of increasing responsibility in a small multi-role team. This position requires a candidate who can analyze business requirements, perform design tasks, construct, test, and implement solutions with minimal supervision.

Our Purpose

Applied to this position, your skills will help transform healthcare through technology and solutions that dramatically improve patient care and business operations.

Core Competencies

At HCA ITG, your deliverables will influence patient care. Every process, technology, and decision matters. This role will provide leadership and deep technical expertise in all aspects of solution design and application development for specific business environments. It will focus on setting technical direction on groups of applications and similar technologies as well as taking responsibility for technically robust solutions encompassing all business, architecture, and technology constraints.

• Responsible for building and supporting a Cloud based ecosystem designed for enterprise-wide analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Direct the transformation from HCA Healthcare’s current on premise Teradata platform to Google Cloud Platform to enable analytics and machine learning at scale.
  
• Design the cloud environment from a comprehensive perspective, ensuring that it satisfies all the company’s needs.
  
• Develop, manage, and own full data lifecycle from raw data acquisition through transformation to end user consumption
  
• Share knowledge and experience to contribute to growth of overall team capabilities
  
• Perform activities such as deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and management inside the cloud framework that has been created
  
• Provide guidance on technology choices and design considerations for migrating data to the Cloud
  
• Maintain a holistic view of information assets by creating and maintaining artifacts that illustrate how information is stored, processed, and accessed
  
• Demonstrate deep understanding and act as a leader in the team’s continuous integration and continuous delivery automation pipeline
  
• Collaborate with business analysts, project lead, management, and customers on requirements
  
• Design fit-for-purpose products to ensure products align to the customer’s strategic plans and technology road maps
  
• Actively participate in technical group discussions and adopt any new technologies to improve the development and operations.
  
• Assist team members with production issues and offer support, guidance, and assist in communicating issues with appropriate stakeholders when necessary.
  
• Provide leadership on key technology choices for Enterprise Data Ecosystem including data warehouse, analytical and big data platforms.
  
• Ensure architectural, quality, and governance adherence through design reviews.
  

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field – Required
  
• Master’s degree in computer science or related field – Preferred
  
• 3+ years of experience in Data Engineer/Architect- Required
  
• 1+ year(s) of experience in Healthcare – Preferred
  
• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology – Required
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors

A successful candidate will have:

• Experience developing and supporting data pipelines from various source types (on-prem rdbms, AWS, GCS bucket, flat file) to Big Query utilizing Google Cloud Platform native technologies
  
• Knowledge and experience using the following technologies
  

o Big Query

o Dataflow, Data Proc, Data Fusion, Cloud Composer

o GSUTIL, GCS, Kafka, Pub/Sub

o Data Catalog/Dataplex

o Python, Unix, Linux

• Strong understanding of best practices and standards for cloud application design and implementation.
  
• Extensive experience with relational database management systems; Teradata, Oracle or SQL Server:
  

o Advanced SQL skills

o Write, tune, and interpret SQL queries

o BTEQs

o Stored procedures

• Experience with Unstructured Data
  
• Ability to troubleshoot, maintain, reverse engineer, and optimize existing ETL pipelines.
  
• Requires strong practical experience in agile application development and DevOps discipline, including deployment of CI/CD pipelines in Git
  
• Ability to multitask and to balance competing priorities.
  
• Expertise in planning, implementing, supporting, and tuning Cloud ecosystem environments using a variety of tools and techniques.
  
• Ability to define and utilize best practice techniques and to impose order in a fast-changing environment. Must have strong problem-solving skills.
  
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills, including a desire to work within a highly-matrixed, team-oriented environment.
  
• A successful candidate may have:
  

o Experience in Healthcare Domain

o Experience in Patient Data

Certifications (a plus, but not required)

• GCP Cloud Professional Data Engineer
  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING CONDITIONS

• Prolonged sitting or standing at computer workstation including use of mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
  

ITG transforms healthcare and gives people healthier tomorrows. We deliver information technology strategy, support, and solutions. ITG improve and enhance patient care and business operations. We deliver services at administrative locations, data centers, and hospitals. The facilities we support are located in 20+ states and the United Kingdom. Our team works to move healthcare forward. We do this by seeking, embracing, developing, and delivering technology for patient care.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

Across HCA Healthcare’s more than 2,000 sites of care, our nurses and colleagues have a positive impact on patients, communities and healthcare.
Together, we uplift and elevate our purpose to give people a healthier tomorrow.- Jane Englebright, PhD, RN CENP, FAAN
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Senior Staff Data Engineer opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.