Data Engineer Intern (Internship)

Abacus Insights is transforming how data works for health plans, aiming to make healthcare data usable for better decision-making. They are seeking a Data Engineer Intern to join their Data Distribution Engineering team, where the intern will work with clients and internal teams to manage and optimize data distribution processes.

Responsibilities:

• Work with clients and implementation teams to understand the data distribution requirements
• Perform data analysis and data mapping required to produce client output
• Build the data distribution extracts and scripts
• Optimize the performance of the data extract scripts
• Foster a dynamic, high-preforming, and collaborative culture
• Guide team members to solve issues and help them to understand any challenges
• Spearhead clients’ projects and handle client calls
• Constantly think about process enhancements and bring different ideas into table

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience working with healthcare data
• Understanding and passion for healthcare data and systems – knowledge on Membership, Claims, Provider and other domains
• Strong experience writing queries, performing data analysis, data profiling and reporting
• Performance optimization experience with understanding of how to fine tune the queries
• Experience handling a large volume of data
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to seek better analytical solutions to abstract business problems
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
• Experience, coupled with a willingness, to learn new things
• Desire to contribute individually, with the ability both to self-direct work and to collaborate with others
• Strong SQL Programming skills
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Experience working with an AWS, Azure, Databricks, Spark
• Experience working with Snowflake
• Understanding or experience working for a cloud-based data services provider to large healthcare clients