Data Engineer II

Astrana Health is seeking a highly motivated Data Engineer II to support their analytics department. The role involves collaborating with various teams to produce data models, build ELT pipelines, and ensure data quality to enhance healthcare operations.

Responsibilities:

• Use data engineering best practices to produce high quality, maximally available data models which are intuitive to data analysts and trusted by stakeholders
• Develop deep domain knowledge in healthcare operations, tracking regulatory developments related to analytics products you maintain
• Apply quality measures and other metrics to datasets originating from internal and external clients
• Build scalable ELT pipelines and business intelligence dashboards as needed, embracing automation wherever possible
• Implement data quality checks which proactively identify data issues and distributional shifts to ensure accuracy of downstream analytical products

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required in healthcare, analytics, statistics, finance, business, or related field
• Experience with relational databases
• Strong understanding of database structures, theories, principles, and practices
• Working knowledge with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Spark, and SQL
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including documentation, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Familiarity with normalized, dimensional, star schema and snowflake schematic models
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Experience with Excel
• Master's degree (MBA, MPH)
• Working experience with Databricks
• Familiarity with business intelligence exploratory or visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI)
• 2+ years of experience in managed care or other healthcare data field
• 1+ years' using cloud-based services from AWS, GCP, or Azure