Job Location: Remote
Description
Purpose:
Under the general direction of the management team and senior staff of the HCMS department. The Systems Analyst – Intermediate (Data Engineer) will work in a variety of settings to build systems that collect, manage, and convert raw data into usable information for data scientists and business analysts to interpret. Your ultimate goal is to make data accessible so that our organization can use it to evaluate and optimize our performance. 100% Work From Home Opportunity!!
Data engineering is the practice of designing and building systems for collecting, storing, and analyzing data at scale. Organizations have the ability to collect massive amounts of data, and they need the right people and technology to ensure it is in a highly usable state by the time it reaches data scientists and analysts. In addition to making the lives of data scientists easier, working as a data engineer will give you the opportunity to make a tangible difference in our organization.
Responsibilities:
- Data Quality:
- Maintain data quality at all times.
- Acquire datasets that align with business needs
- Develop algorithms to transform data into useful, actionable information
- Build, test, and maintain database pipeline architectures
- Create new data validation methods and data analysis tools
- Data Confidentiality/Security:
- Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information at all times.
- Ensure compliance with data governance and security policies
- Documentation: Complete documentation/flow charting of system builds and maintain team’s existing documentation independently. Responsible for validating current documentation. Extract and document customer/business requirements and needs for use by enterprise architecture and engineering teams (network, system, and software).
- Second and Third Level Support (Including Maintenance Activities): Independently triage and resolve level 1 and level 2 support issues. Escalate level 3 support issues accordingly.
- SDLC (System Development Life Cycle): Have an intermediate understanding of the application development life cycle. Ability to apply those principles to day to day work
- Application Upgrades and Implementation: Review and validate functionality of application upgrades and implementations. Report back on any problems. Identify new functionality and/or hardware requirements as assigned. Ability to create test plans.
- Vendor Relationships: Interact with vendors (technical issues, project initiatives) under the direction of more experienced team members as necessary. Assist with issue escalation where applicable.
- End User Training :Create and review existing training documentation. Facilitate high-level user training sessions independently.
- Communication: Responsible for demonstrating appropriate, clear, concise, and effective written and oral communications in all interactions to build relationships and accomplish day to day work and projects.
- System Integration: Complete assigned tasks related to system integration. Validate testing. Ability to modify existing test plans.
- Project Management: Create and contributes to project tasks and milestones. Update all project management and time tracking tools accordingly. Ability to take full ownership of a project.
- Report Writing/Analysis: Write, analyze and make modifications to reports either independently for basic requests or under the direction of more experienced team members for more complex requests.
- Process Improvement: Create and update processes. Ability to contribute to process improvement efforts.
- Interactions with Others: Collaborate with management to understand company objectives.Successfully completes projects, tasks, and initiatives by embracing a team-first approach. Works in collaboration with team and offers feedback, where appropriate, to complete individual and group efforts. Shows the ability to adjust and be flexible to change by adapting approach when necessary. Mentors less experienced staff
- Self-Development: Responsible for continuous self-study, trainings, partnering with more senior members of team, and/or seeking out opportunities to broaden scope to stay up to date with industry and organizational trends. Seeks feedback from senior team members for development and effectively incorporates feedback into work and behaviors.
Qualifications
- Typically has 2+ years experience with modern technology and application support through education or practical experience. Highly driven and self-motivated to meet expectations.
- Ability to work independently and in a team based environment.
- Demonstrates thorough understanding of information technology fundamental tools and concepts (SDLC) of one of the information technology professional disciplines and applies that understanding to make independent practical contributions to IT work within a UPMC department or function.
- Completes on-going training on-the-job, through courses, self-study, certifications and/or advanced degrees to maintain and enhance technical and business capabilities.
- Additionally, this position may be required to maintain a stand by status as part of a rotation within the team.
- This requires 24 hours per day, 7 days per week availability during the stand by period.
- The frequency varies based upon the number of colleagues in the rotation.
100% Work From Home Opportunity!!
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
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