Data Engineer Principal

HealthPartners is hiring a Data Engineer, Principal. Our mission is to provide simple and affordable healthcare. HealthPartners teams use data to improve patient and member experience, improve health, and reduce the per capita cost of health care. HealthPartners data engineers are responsible for building, managing and optimizing data pipelines that facilitate data movement in service of these goals by implementing and testing methods (or build systems) that improve data reliability and quality. Data engineers work in collaborative scrum teams with other developers, analysts and data scientists and may share work efforts in order to achieve sprint goals. They champion and embrace leading practices in the field, and develop processes to effectively store, manage and deliver data. As part of their role, data engineers are responsible for reducing manual data work and improving productivity; they employ and test innovative tools, techniques and architectures to detect patterns and automate common or repetitive data preparation and integration tasks.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• 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

REQUIRED SKILLS/ QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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 QUALIFICATIONS:

• 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.

At HealthPartners we believe in the power of good – good deeds and good people working together. As part of our team, you’ll find an inclusive environment that encourages new ways of thinking, celebrates differences, and recognizes hard work.

We’re a nonprofit, integrated health care organization, providing health insurance in six states and high-quality care at more than 90 locations, including hospitals and clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together research and education through HealthPartners Institute, training medical professionals across the region and conducting innovative research that improve lives around the world.

At HealthPartners, everyone is welcome, included and valued. We’re working together to increase diversity and inclusion in our workplace, advance health equity in care and coverage, and partner with the community as advocates for change.

Benefits Designed to Support Your Total Health
As a HealthPartners colleague, we’re committed to nurturing your diverse talents, valuing your dedication, and supporting your work-life balance. We offer a comprehensive range of benefits to support every aspect of your life, including health, time off, retirement planning, and continuous learning opportunities. Our goal is to help you thrive physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially, so you can continue delivering exceptional care.

Join us in our mission to improve the health and well-being of our patients, members, and communities.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identify, status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.