Principal Data Engineer

HCA Healthcare-posted 2 months ago

Full-time • Senior

Nashville, TN

Hospitals

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Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a(an) Principal Data Engineer today with HCA Healthcare. This role requires working closely with others, frequently in a matrixed environment, and with little supervision. As a Principal Data Engineer/Architect level, the role requires self-starters who are proficient in problem solving and capable of bringing clarity to complex situations. It requires contributing to strategic technical direction and system architecture approaches for individual projects and platform migrations. The culture of the organization places an emphasis on teamwork, so social and interpersonal skills are equally important as technical capability. Due to the emerging and fast-evolving nature of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technology and practice, the position requires that one stay well-informed of technological advancements and be proficient at putting new innovations into effective practice.

Responsible for designing, building, and supporting GCP based ecosystems designed for enterprise-wide analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
Bring new data sources into GCP, transform and load to databases.
Provide technical leadership across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) teams to lead the design and delivery of next-generation GenAI/LLM-based solutions.
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, automate manual processes, optimize data delivery, and re-design infrastructure for greater scalability.
Develop and review data management plans, architecture plans, data transfer plans, and data security and privacy plans.
Develop and review standard operating procedures to meet high standards for data organization, quality, and security.
Provide leadership in developing standards and best practices.
Build analytics tools to provide actionable insights into operational efficiency, service delivery, and policy evaluation.
Deliver consistent and reliable processes and high-quality output on independent and team projects.
Closely collaborates with team members to successfully execute development initiatives using Agile practices and principles.
Participates in large-scale development projects involving multiple areas outside of core team.
Designs fit-for-purpose products to ensure products align to the customers strategic plans and technology road maps.
Shares knowledge and experience to contribute to growth of overall team capabilities.
Participates in the deployment, change, configuration, management, administration and maintenance of deployment process and systems.
Work closely with management, architects, and other teams to develop and implement the projects.
Actively participate in technical group discussions and adopt any innovative technologies to improve the development and operations.
Rapidly prototypes and deliver just-in-time solutions.
Gather requirements, designs, constructs, and deliver solutions with minimal team interaction.
Works in an environment with rapidly changing business requirements and priorities.
Demonstrates deep understanding and acts as a leader in the team's continuous integration and continuous delivery automation pipeline.
Work collaboratively with Data Scientists, business, and IT leaders throughout the company to understand Cloud/Big Data needs and use cases.
A technical expert leading a high-performing team to develop, construct, test and maintain sound, secure data architectures that meet business needs.
A team-oriented specialist who works collaboratively with business leaders, project managers, and across technical teams to build the right thing.
A strategic thinker who improves the functionality and value of the clinical systems.
Apply AI-native engineering practices to design, implement, and optimize data and software systems, accelerating time-to-value.
Incorporate prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and automated evaluation techniques into data solutions and workflows.
Prototype, test, and iterate rapidly using AI-assisted development approaches, ensuring scalable and reliable production systems.
Explore and integrate agentic workflows and emerging AI/ML capabilities to enhance automation and decision-making across platforms.

Bachelors degree in computer science or related field required.
Masters degree in computer science or related field preferred.
5+ years of experience in Data Engineering required.
1+ year(s) of experience in Healthcare preferred.
10+ years of experience in Information Technology required.
Strong understanding of best practices and standards for GCP application design and implementation.
Two+ Year of hands-on experience with GCP platform and experience with many of the following components: GCS, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Kafka, Pub/Sub, Python, Golang, Spark, Scala or Java, BigQuery, Dataflow, Data Fusion, GKE, CI/CD and Logging & Monitoring.
Understanding of Lambda Design Architectures and Real-Time Streaming.
Experience with Unstructured Data, Real-Time Streaming with GCP.
Ability to multitask and to balance competing priorities.
Requires strong practical experience in agile application development, file systems management, and DevOps discipline and practice using short-cycle iterations to deliver continuous business value.
Knowledge of all facets of GCP ecosystem development including ideation, design, implementation, tuning, and operational support.
Ability to define and utilize best practice techniques and to impose order in a fast-changing environment.
Must have strong critical thinking skills.
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills, including a desire to work within a highly matrixed, collaborative environment.

Experience in Healthcare Domain.
Experience in Patient Data.
Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, or equivalent) to accelerate engineering tasks.
Familiarity with modern AI application patterns such as prompting strategies, RAG, evals, and agent-based systems.
Demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype and iterate with AI/ML technologies to deliver practical, production-ready solutions.
A growth mindset with curiosity to experiment with emerging AI frameworks and incorporate them into engineering practices.

Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay.
Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing.
401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service).
Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock.
Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more.
Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts.
Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships.
Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships).
Colleague recognition program.
Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence).
Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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