Senior Data Engineer

Alignment Health is breaking the mold in conventional health care, committed to serving seniors and those who need it most: the chronically ill and frail. It takes an entire team of passionate and caring people, united in our mission to put the senior first. In this fast‑growing company you will find ample room for growth and innovation alongside the Alignment Health community.

Working at Alignment Health provides an opportunity to do work that really matters, not only changing lives but saving them.

This position will play a key role in building and operating a cloud‑based data platform and its pipelines using big data technologies. As a Data Engineer you will develop a new data engineering platform that leverages a new cloud architecture, extend or migrate existing data pipelines to this architecture as needed, assist with integrating the SQL data warehouse platform, and design and implement the complex ETL pipelines in the cloud data platform and other solutions to support the rapidly growing and dynamic business demand for data.

• Interfacing with business customers, gathering requirements, and developing new datasets in the data platform
• Building and migrating the complex ETL pipelines from on‑premises system to cloud and Hadoop/Spark to make the system grow elastically
• Identifying 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

• 3+ years relevant experience in cloud‑based data engineering
• Demonstrated ability in data modeling, ETL development, and data warehousing
• Experience with SQL Server, Oracle, Redshift, Teradata, etc.
• Experience with Big Data technologies (No
  
  SQL databases, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Pig, Spark, Elasticsearch, etc.)
• Experience in using Python, .NET, Java, and/or other data engineering languages

• Bachelor or Master in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field

• Knowledge and experience of SQL Server and SSIS
• Excellent communication, analytical, and collaborative problem‑solving skills

• Healthcare domain and data experience
• Healthcare EDI experience is a plus
• API development experience is a plus
• 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, Redshift, S3, EC2, Data‑pipelined, Data Lake, Data Factory and other big data technologies
• Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best practices in the data engineering space
• Linux/UNIX experience processing large data sets
• Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP is a plus
• Microsoft Azure Certification is a plus
• Problem‑solving skills and ability to meet deadlines are a must

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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, 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/Disabled/Protected Veteran. If you require any reasonable accommodation under the…