Principal Data Engineer

MedImpact•San Diego, CA

22h•Onsite

About The Position

MedImpact Healthcare Systems, Inc. is looking for extraordinary people to join our team! Why join MedImpact? Because our success is dependent on you; innovative professionals with top notch skills who thrive on opportunity, high performance, and teamwork. We look for individuals who want to work on a team that cares about making a difference in the value of healthcare. At MedImpact, we deliver leading edge pharmaceutical and technology related solutions that dramatically improve the value of health care. We provide superior outcomes to those we serve through innovative products, systems, and services that provide transparency and promote choice in decision making. Our vision is to set the standard in providing solutions that optimize satisfaction, service, cost, and quality in the healthcare industry. We are the premier Pharmacy Benefits Management solution!

Requirements

BA/BS Degree; 8+ years related experience and 8+ years of SME in respective area(s); (or equivalent combination of education and experience) with at least 4+ years leading individual contributors and leaders of leaders; which may be substituted with an appropriate mix of leadership experience and 5 years of MedImpact experience plus an appropriate external leadership training program and internal mentorship with a seasoned leader (VP+ level) that must completed within 12 months in new position.
Mastery in data architecture, ETL tools, orchestration frameworks, infrastructure as code technologies.
Expertise in structured and unstructured data, SQL databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL), NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra)
Experience with streaming data architectures (e.g., event-driven systems).
Knowledge of data observability tools.
Proficiency in Python, Java, or other common programming languages.
Analytical-thinking, critical-reasoning, and problem-solving skills as applied to complex business-technology subject areas.
Ability to communicate complex ideas to non-technical stakeholders.
Written, verbal and presentation skills to educate, inform and facilitate decision-making at management level.
Planning and organization skills to conceive and execute projects and work-efforts independently and leading others.
Proven capability in meeting challenges with resourcefulness, generating suggestions for improvement, developing innovative approaches and ideas.
Ability to initiate and influence change in a matrix environment with limited formal authority.
Technical trouble shooting and root cause analysis skills in service-disruption scenarios.
Available for on-call work as needed.
Expertise in protecting health data requiring HIPAA compliance
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents.

Nice To Haves

Experience with MLOps and deploying AI/ML models.
Contributions to open-source projects or patents.

Responsibilities

Data Architecture and Strategy Align data architecture and strategy with business intelligence and AI/ML needs.
Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant data infrastructure and pipelines (batch and real-time).
Define best practices for data modeling, ETL/ELT processes, and warehousing.
Lead migration to modern data stacks and paradigms.
Engineering Leadership Mentor and guide other technical personnel and collaborate with BI Developers, Data Scientists, Application Engineering and DevOps teams.
Lead matrix teams when necessary without formal supervisory authority within the context of a specific situation or a project.
Drive design and code reviews, performance optimization, and cost-efficient solutions.
Research, identify, plan, evangelize and socialize appropriate new technologies and technical solutions with IT as well as with business stakeholders.
Identify, document and help protect MedImpact intellectual property where appropriate.
Data Governance & Quality Design and implement data governance frameworks, metadata management, lineage, security, compliance with HIPAA.
Suggests refinements to current or institutes new data policies and procedures.
Establish mechanisms for monitoring, detecting, and preventing data quality issues proactively.
Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner with business stakeholders to identify and translate ambiguous, unstated and understated business needs into holistic technical solutions.
Represent MedImpact IT as a technology subject-matter expert internally and externally (with clients & partners) as necessary.
Interface with clients to understand needs and concerns, suggest solutions and may manage sensitive customer-relationship situations.