At Shields Health Solutions, we pride ourselves on our culture of inclusion, kindness, acceptance, and the difference we make in patients' lives every day. We are tremendously proud to consistently be certified as a ‘Great Place to Work’ several years in a row; we’ve been recognized as a Fortunes Best Workplaces in Healthcare™, Millennials™, and Women™; and a Becker’s Healthcare Top 150 Workplace.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to improving lives by ensuring seamless access to specialty medications, better health outcomes, and an enhanced care experience. That’s why more health system leaders trust us to deliver personalized support and comprehensive solutions that make specialty pharmacy more accessible for the patients who need it most. Through our proven Shields Performance Platform, we help drive the financial sustainability of health systems while prioritizing best-in-class outcomes that patients deserve. With a team of leaders in specialty pharmacy, a track record of success partnering with over 80 health systems, and an unwavering dedication to measurable results, we empower health systems to transform their specialty pharmacy into a driver of growth—ensuring every patient receives the best possible care.
Shields Health Solutions is hiring a Data Software Engineer to help grow and evolve ETL and data management in the Engineering team. Engineering integrates partner and reference data daily to drive Shields' Legendary Care model for helping patients and hospitals benefit the most from specialty pharmaceuticals. As a result, this opportunity is the starting point for positive patient outcomes and increased resources for hospitals.
The role involves regular collaboration with end-users, analysts, devOps, and other engineers. Creative approaches and knowledge transfer have created a tightly-knit, collegial team. The ideal candidate will have a background working in environments that receive various data feeds using APIs and/or flat-files and that perform necessary transformations to load data into a PostgreSQL RDBMS ecosystem. Useful experience includes but is not limited to data warehousing, machine learning, reporting, and nightly batch processing.
Engineering uses certain technologies daily and hands-on experience in the following is essential:
- SQL (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or other RDBMS)
- PL/pgSQL
- Bash/Linux
- Python (Pandas preferred)
Knowledge of any of the following either professionally or academically is a BIG plus:
- Git/Bitbucket or other source code control
- Production Scheduling - crontab, Airflow
Engineering is Agile and regularly deploys code according to established SDLC principles in a HIPAA regulated business. Consideration will be given to knowledge/experience with:
- HIPAA-compliant data management of PHI
- Pharmaceutical data structures (HL7 and FHIR)
- Atlassian Jira
- Atlassian Confluence
Experience/ Education:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university required with major course work in computer science, a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years Application Development involving RDBMS backend
- 3+ years working in an enterprise-grade production environment for SDLC deployments and issue support.
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What We Do
At Shields, improving lives and elevating performance are at
the heart of everything we do. That’s why more health system
leaders trust Shields to elevate access, outcomes and growth
within specialty pharmacy — delivering value throughout the
entire health system. Transform your specialty pharmacy into a
powerful growth engine and elevate performance where it
matters most with Shields — the premier specialty pharmacy
accelerator in the country
