Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
athenahealth is a progressive, innovation-driven software product company. We partner with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We maintain a unique values-driven employee culture and offer a flexible work-life balance. As evidence of our rapid growth and industry leadership, we were acquired by the world’s leading private equity firm “Bain Capital” in 2021 for $17bn! and we have many new strategic product initiatives.
Position Summary: We are looking for “Senior Member of Technical Staff” to join our Insight & Measurement team within Clinicals zone in our Bangalore R&D division.
Role: Senior Data Engineer - Do you love working with data that has the power to improve lives? Here's your chance to join a passionate team at athenahealth, creating a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in transforming healthcare data into actionable insights that empower clinicians, researchers, and administrators to deliver better care.
Team: The Insight & Measurement team is responsible for unlocking the value of athena’s value-based care (VBC) data and building athena’s next generation feature suite for population health and VBC. I&M is focused on using scalable data technologies to build products and experiences that deliver insights and drive actions across multiple sets of users, including Care Managers, Analysts, and providers. The ideal candidate would be a motivated full-stack engineer excited to work closely with Design and Product counterparts to deliver new value-based care and analytics experiences.
If working in an emerging domain and collaborating with key VBC stakeholders across athena sounds like an exciting opportunity, we strongly encourage you to apply!
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and transforming large volumes of healthcare data from diverse sources (EHRs, medical claims, etc.)
- Develop and implement data quality checks and monitoring mechanisms to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data needs and translate them into effective data solutions.
- Design and implement scalable and efficient data storage solutions (e.g. data warehouses, data lakes) aligned with healthcare data privacy regulations.
- Develop and automate data analysis tasks and reporting for various clinical and business objectives.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends and technologies in healthcare data analytics, including machine learning, natural language processing, and distributed computing
- Work effectively in a collaborative team environment, communicating clearly and concisely with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar role
- Strong understanding of data engineering principles and best practices, including data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, and data warehousing
- Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Java, or Scala
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP) and associated data services (e.g. Redshift, Data Factory, BigQuery)
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
- A passion for driving positive change through innovative data solutions
Bonus Points:
- Hands-on experience working with healthcare data, standards, and regulations (e.g. HIPAA, HL7)
- Experience with data analytics tools and technologies (e.g. Spark, Hadoop, machine learning libraries)
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of data visualization and reporting best practices
About athenahealth
Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
What’s unique about our locations?
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.
Our company culture might be our best feature.
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.
Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.
What can we do for you?
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
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What We Do
At athenahealth, it’s our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all. With a thoughtful balance of humanity and technology, we’re able to uncover meaningful healthcare insights that can help create healthier futures for our families, our communities, and ourselves.
athenahealth partners with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We offer medical record, revenue cycle, patient engagement, care coordination, and population health services. We combine insights from our network of more than 160,000 providers and approximately 117 million patients with deep industry knowledge and perform administrative work at scale.
Our cloud-based and on-premises solutions deliver measurable financial and clinical results for healthcare organizations of all shapes and sizes. That’s why our top-performing clients are beating industry benchmarks across the board.
For more information, please visit www.athenahealth.com
Why Work With Us
Our vibrant and talented employees spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goals. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where we each feel comfortable bringing their best selves to work.
