Staff Data Engineer - APIs

HCA•Nashville, TN

52d

About The Position

The Staff Data Engineer - API serves as a primary development resource for design, writing code, test, implementation, document functionality, and maintain of NextGen solutions for the GCP Cloud enterprise data initiatives. The role requires working closely with data teams, frequently in a matrixed environment as part of a broader project team. This role requires 'self-starters' who are proficient in problem solving and capable of bringing clarity to complex situations. 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 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. In addition, this candidate will have a history of increasing responsibility in a small multi-role team. This position requires a candidate who can analyze business requirements, perform design tasks, construct, test, and implement solutions with minimal supervision. This candidate will have a record of accomplishment of participation in successful projects in a fast-paced, mixed team (consultant and employee) environment. In addition, the applicant must be willing to mentor other developers to prepare them for assuming the responsibilities. As a Staff Data Engineer, you will collaborate closely with all team members to create a modular, scalable solution that addresses current needs, but will also serve as a foundation for future success. The position will be critical in building the team's API engineering practices in test driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment and is a hands-on team member who actively coaches the team to solve complex problems. At HCA DT&I, your deliverables will influence patient care. Every process, technology, and decision matters. This role will provide application development for specific business environments. Focus on setting technical direction on groups of applications and similar technologies as well as taking responsibility for technically robust solutions encompassing all business, architecture, and technology constraints.

Requirements

Strong understanding of best practices and standards for GCP Data process design and implementation.
2+ years hands-on experience with GCP platform (Azure or AWS acceptable too) and experience with many of the following components: Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions Pub/Sub, Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner BigQuery, Dataflow, Data Fusion Cloud Composer, DataProc, CI/CD, Cloud Logging Vertex AI, NLP, GitHub
4+ Years of hands-on experience with many of the following components: Spark Streaming, Kafka SQL, JSON, Avro, Parquet Java, Python, or Scala

Nice To Haves

Certifications (a plus, but not required): GCP Cloud Professional Data Engineer

Responsibilities

Work with data engineers, data architects, data scientists, and other internal stakeholders to understand product requirements and then design, build, and monitor data platforms and pipelines that meet todays requirements but can gracefully scale.
Implement automated workflows that lower manual/operational costs, define and uphold SLAs for timely delivery of data, and move the company closer to democratizing data.
Enable a self-service data architecture supporting query exploration, dashboards, data catalog, and rich data discovery.
Promote a collaborative team environment that prioritizes effective communication, team member growth, and success of the team over success of the individual.
Design and create APIs that accelerate the time from idea to insight.
Adheres to and supports API best practices, processes, and standards.
Produce high quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates best practices and serves as an example for less experienced engineers.
Helps promote and support data security best practices that align with industry standards and regulatory and legal requirements.
Help mentor team members on complex data projects and following the Agile process.
Help lead data analysis efforts and solution proposals to data related and data architecture problems.
Help lead implementation of unit and integration tests and promote and conduct performance testing where appropriate.
Be a leader in the HCA data community. Evangelize data engineering best practices and standards, participate, or present at community events, and encourage the continual growth and development of others.
Be curious. Be growth minded. Encourage and enable this in others.
Demonstrate professional and personal maturity through self-leadership.
Build productive and healthy relationships within the department and other teams to foster growth of our culture, our people, and our platforms.
Practices and adheres to the "Code of Conduct" philosophy and "Mission and Value Statement."
Perform other duties as assigned.
Responsible for building and supporting a GCP based ecosystem designed for enterprise-wide analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
Work independently, and complete tasks on-schedule by exercising strong judgment and problem-solving skills.
Analyze requirements, design AI/ML based solutions, and integrate those solutions for customer environments.
Proven experience effectively prioritizing workload to meet deadlines and work objectives.
Works in an environment with rapidly changing business requirements and priorities
Shares knowledge and experience to contribute to growth of overall team capabilities.
Actively participate in technical group discussions and adopt any modern technologies to improve the development and operations.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), 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.