Data Engineer

Job description

Who We Are
Prominence is a healthcare technology strategy and implementation firm, focused on helping the nation’s leading healthcare organizations to do more with their data.

Founded by former Epic managers, we understand the technology landscape in healthcare and provide IT staffing, advisory services, and analytics solutions to create robust data ecosystems that support clinical workflows, automate operational processes, and expedite research.

Whether it’s guiding a technology implementation, establishing governance principles, or developing leading edge analytics, we help our customers make sense out of the mountain of data at their fingertips in order to deliver higher quality care at a lower cost.

Ranked as a best place to work over 27 times (and counting!), Prominence’s culture provides consultants with a supportive environment that allows you to innovate and grow your career in healthcare IT.

Additional information is available on our website.

(https://prominenceadvisors.com/careers/)
Your Role
Our consultants guide our customers through complex data challenges to summit the task at hand.

As a Data Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain pipelines and workflows that enable our customers to put their data to work.

You will need to be able to create order out of chaos, transforming raw sources into clean, reliable, and scalable data streams.

Our ideal team members are humble, smart, and driven to ensure our customer’s success.

This includes a passion to deliver high-quality results, while teaching our counterparts how to fish and grow the skills needed to support and expand upon the deliverables of our projects.

If this sounds like you, and you meet the requirements below, we encourage you to apply.

If you know of someone else who would be a great fit, let us know.

Requirements

Prominence is looking for a Data Engineer with strong experience in SQL and Python to help us build and optimize data pipelines in partnership with some of the nation’s leading healthcare providers.

Our ideal candidate has hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, AWS Redshift, or Google BigQuery.

You should be able to build scalable data pipelines that ingest, transform, and deliver data from diverse sources (EHRs, claims, APIs, CRM) into analytics-ready structures.

More important than any single tool is the demonstrated desire and ability to tackle new and unfamiliar technical challenges.

This position is a full-time, salaried role with benefits.

There is no relocation required.

Candidates are required to have a suitable home office to operate from.

Minimum Qualifications


+ 2–5+ years of professional experience in data engineering or related roles

+ Strong SQL skills, including query optimization and debugging

+ Proficiency in Python (or another programming/scripting language such as Scala or Java)

+ Hands-on experience with at least one of the following:


+ Snowflake

+ Databricks

+ Azure Data Factory

+ AWS Redshift

+ Google BigQuery

+ dbt or similar transformation tools

+ Apache Airflow or other orchestration frameworks


+ Familiarity with ETL/ELT principles, data warehousing, and data modeling concepts

+ Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure, or GCP)



Desired Qualifications


+ Healthcare industry knowledge and experience (Epic, HL7, FHIR, claims)

+ Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and DevOps workflows

+ Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)

+ Experience with real-time/streaming data tools (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub)

+ Containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes)

+ Cloud or data tool certifications


Success Criteria

Successful team members at Prominence display the following:


+ High degree of professionalism; treats others with respect, keeps commitments, builds trust within a team, works with integrity, and upholds organizational values.



+ Highly organized; able to manage multi-faceted work streams.



+ Self-motivated; able to manage schedules, meet deadlines, and monitor your personal work product.



+ Highly adaptable; able to acclimate quickly to new project assignments and work environments.



+ Creative; not paralyzed by problems and able to work collaboratively to find novel solutions.



+ Clear communication skills; ability to convey messaging in clear and concise written and verbal communications.



+ Ability to anticipate issues before they arise and escalate effectively.



+ Passion to mentor and guide others.




Benefits

Prominence is dedicated to hiring the best and brightest minds in healthcare, and maintaining a culture that rewards our employees for following their passion.

You’ll join a team of highly motivated and passionate people who do great work for the nation’s leading healthcare organizations, including 7 of the top 10 academic medical centers.

In the past 5 years, we’ve received 20+ Best Places to Work Awards and are highly rated in KLAS, reflecting the quality work from our team of A-players who move mountains daily for our customers.

We strive to create the best working environment with the best team, so that we can continue to drive innovation in healthcare faster.


+ Our 2 nodes of business: Analytics and Epic Services - offer you a diversified career path, stability in a rapidly changing market, and opportunities for growth within Prominence.

+ Prominence is a fully remote company, with no requirements on where you live or work within the US and flexibility to manage your schedule.

+ We offer 15 days PTO and up to 16 paid Holidays each year for full-time staff.

+ We offer a diverse healthcare offering, including low and high deductible health plans, HSAs, LTD/STD Insurance, Health and Dependent Savings Accounts, Vision, Dental, 401k offering, an annual Professional Development fund, and Signing Bonuses.

Required Skill Profession

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