Data Engineer III (Associate) (Remote)

Job_Summary:

Astrana Health is seeking a highly motivated Data Engineer III to join their Data - Analytics department. The role involves collaborating with product teams and clinical leaders to manage and enhance data products, ensuring high-quality data models and addressing data quality issues.

Responsibilities:

• Use data engineering best practices to produce high quality, maximally available data models which are intuitive and trusted by stakeholders.

• Scope and implement new entities for Astrana’s unified data model.

• Interfacing with business customers, gathering requirements and developing new datasets in data platform

• Identifying the data quality issues to address them immediately to provide great user experience

• Extracting and combining data from various heterogeneous data sources

• Designing, implementing and supporting a platform that can provide ad-hoc access to large datasets

• Modelling data and metadata to support machine learning and AI

• Support integration efforts from acquisitions as necessary.

Qualifications:

-Required:

• Bachelor's degree required in computer science, information technology, or related field

• Strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and practices

• Working knowledge with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Spark, and SQL

• Demonstrated track record executing best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including documentation, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, deployment processes, testing, and operations

• Familiarity with normalized, dimensional, star schema and snowflake schematic models

• Healthcare domain and data experience

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• 4+ years of experience working with diverse healthcare data sources, for example, claims, encounters, ADT data, FHIR, EHR data etc.

• 3+ years’ using cloud-based services from AWS, GCP, or Azure

• 2+ years serving data sets to both BI tools and SE applications

-Preferred:

• Master’s degree in healthcare-related field

• Working experience with Databricks

• Databricks/Microsoft Azure Certification is a plus

Company:

Leading physician-centric, technology-powered, risk-bearing healthcare mgmt. company delivering high quality care in a cost-effective manner Astrana Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.