Healthcare Data Engineer: Cloud, Automation & Analytics

Healthfirst; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

401k

Job summary

Healthfirst is seeking a Data Engineer to drive data acquisition strategies, integration, and governance. You will work with product, finance, analysts and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable data architectures, artifacts and standards.

The role emphasizes data quality, security and automated workflows to support predictive analytics and decision making. Responsibilities include building data pipelines, validating data across Healthfirst environments, and aligning

Qualifications

• Work experience in a data engineering role.
• Work experience with healthcare claims data.
• Work experience with Alteryx.
• Work experience in data programming languages such as Java or Python.
• Work experience in a Big Data ecosystem processing data and related technologies.
• Work experience in a production cloud infrastructure.
• High School Diploma or GED from an accredited institution.

Responsibilities

• Finds trends in datasets and develops workflows and algorithms for data usefulness across the enterprise.
• Designs and implements standardized data management procedures for data staging, ingestion, preparation, provisioning and destruction.
• Ensures quality of technical solutions as data moves across Healthfirst environments.
• Provides insight into changing data environments and storage/utilization requirements, suggesting solutions.
• Develops, constructs, tests and maintains architectures aligned to business requirements.
• Maps architecture to business processes and defines non-functional requirements and QA criteria.
• Identifies ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality.
• Deploys analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods.
• Prepares data for predictive and prescriptive modeling and uncovers patterns.
• Creates data monitoring capabilities and coordinates with data consumers.

Skills

Data engineering

Healthcare data

Alteryx

Java or Python

Big Data

Cloud infrastructure

Analytical thinking

Education

HS Diploma or GED

Bachelor’s Degree in computer engineering

Tools

AWS Redshift

Amazon S3

SQL

NoSQL databases

Job description

Healthfirst is seeking a Data Engineer to drive data acquisition strategies, integration, and governance. You will work with product, finance, analysts and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable data architectures, artifacts and standards.

The role emphasizes data quality, security and automated workflows to support predictive analytics and decision making. Responsibilities include building data pipelines, validating data across Healthfirst environments, and aligning