Data Engineer at Alignment Health Plan in Orange, California

Job Description:

Alignment Healthcare was founded with a mission to revolutionize health care with a serving heart culture. Through its unique integrated care delivery models, deep physician partnerships and use of proprietary technologies, Alignment is committed to transforming health care one person at a time.

By becoming a part of the Alignment Healthcare team, you will provide members with the quality of care they truly need and deserve. We believe that great work comes from people who are inspired to be their best. We have built a team of talented and experienced people who are passionate about transforming the lives of the seniors we serve. In this fast-growing company, you will find ample room for growth and innovation alongside the Alignment community.

DATA ENGINEER

Alignment Healthcare was founded with a mission to revolutionize health care with a serving heart culture. Through its unique integrated care delivery models, deep physician partnerships and use of proprietary technologies, Alignment is committed to transforming health care one person at a time.

By becoming a part of the Alignment Healthcare team, you will provide members with the quality of care they truly need and deserve. We believe that great work comes from people who are inspired to be their best. We have built a team of talented and experienced people who are passionate about transforming the lives of the seniors we serve. In this fast-growing company, you will find ample room for growth and innovation alongside the Alignment community.

 POSITION: DATA ENGINEER

As a Data Engineer, you will develop a new data engineering platform that leverage a new cloud architecture and will extend or migrate our existing data pipelines to this architecture as needed. You will also be assisting with integrating the SQL data warehouse platform as our primary processing platform to create the curated enterprise data model for the company to leverage. You will be part of a team building the next generation data platform and to drive the adoption of new technologies and new practices in existing implementations. You will be responsible for designing and implementing the complex ETL pipelines in cloud data platform and other solutions to support the rapidly growing and dynamic business demand for data and use it to deliver the data as service which will have an immediate influence on day-to-day decision making.

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


• Building and migrating the complex ETL pipelines from on premise system to cloud and Hadoop/Spark to make the system grow elastically


• 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

 Education and Experience:

Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field (Bachelors plus five years progressive experience equivalent -foreign degrees equivalencies accepted ) plus 3  years relevant experience in cloud based data engineering as a software developer/engineer, data engineer/scientist, or BI Engineer.

Job Duties

• Demonstrated ability in data modeling, ETL development, and data warehousing.


• Data Warehousing Experience with SQL Server,


• Experience with Big Data Technologies ( such as SQL databases, Hive)


• Experience in using Java and/or other data engineering languages


• Knowledge and experience of SQL Server and SSIS.


• Excellent communication, analytical and collaborative problem-solving skills


• Healthcare domain and data experience


• Healthcare EDI experience


• Industry experience as a Data Engineer or related specialty (e.g., Software Developer/Engineer, Business Intelligence Engineer, Data Scientist) with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets.


• Experience building/operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets


• Experience building data products incrementally and integrating and managing datasets from multiple sources


• Experience leading large-scale data warehousing and analytics projects, including using Azure or AWS technologies – SQL Server, and other big data technologies


• Experience providing technical leadership and mentor other engineers for the best practices on the data engineering space


• Experience using agile methodology and SCRUM process. Demonstrable track record dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering results in an agile, dynamic startup environment


• Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP

Location of Job:  Orange, California/FT 40 hours per week. 

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  • The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  
  
  
  

Essential Physical Functions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee regularly is required to stand, walk, sit, use hand to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.


• The employee frequently lifts and/or moves up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Alignment Healthcare, LLC is proud to practice Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action. We are looking for diversity in qualified candidates for employment: Minority/Female/Disable/Protected Veteran.

If you require any reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in completing the online application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please contact careers@ahcusa.com