Senior Lead Data Engineer

Banner Health is a nationally recognized healthcare organization focused on advancing patient care and making healthcare easier. The Senior Lead Data Engineer partners with business and IT teams to gather requirements, develop and implement solutions, lead complex analytics and information-system initiatives, and ensure projects are properly resourced and delivered on time.

Responsibilities:

• Business Outcomes: Relentless focus on delivering outcomes and value to our business. Partners across organization and related functional areas to understand internal customer needs related to service excellence, including but not limited to analytical, technology and reporting needs; determine the appropriate course of action; make recommendations in an actionable format including to senior management, to achieve desired business results. Facilitates cross-functional teams and/or leads projects with departmental or company-wide scope to implement system changes. This may also include providing oversight, change management, general work direction or leadership to individuals on team; conducts regular meetings with stake holders and uploads necessary documents to the shared information repositories, such as SharePoint or Teams
• Technology Standards: Establishes and defines processes, documentation and standards for quality, and provides expert advice to ensure adherence to critical operating standards; mentors junior members of the team; Provides leadership for customers, information technology staff and various committees guiding the design, implementation and maintenance of complex application and system specifications and processes. Participates and may lead task forces to plan, implement, and coordinate facility activities to maximize information technology service quality, effectiveness and efficiency
• Innovation and Futures: Analyzes and reports on complex customer needs. Manages and supports the identification and research of new developments and uses of current systems and applications, as well as upgraded systems and applications
• Advisor & Partner: Develops strong relationships with internal and business partners; collaborate in appropriate areas, including application design, system optimization, programming complex models, transferring large data feeds, and staying current on emerging technology related to all systems
• Communication: Presents information or ideas to the interests, level and needs of the audience. Actively engages participants and encourages input. Uses group process skills to ensure that the agenda is met. Promotes and facilitates free and open communication. Adapts choice of language and presentation of ideas to fit various needs and perspectives of audiences
• Measurements: Ensures Key Performance Indicators are developed and tracked in all levels of work effort. Clearly defines success and implements the measurements to understand when success is achieved
• Strategic: Designs and administers complex standards and policies regarding application and end user customer documentation. Ensures that department and company standards are implemented
• This position has responsibility for selected area of responsibility. Work is performed in a fast-paced multi-tasked environment where there may be conflicting priorities or tight deadlines. The incumbent must have significant knowledge about cross functional departments in order to serve as a liaison and provide relevant guidance or leadership. The incumbent has collaborative decision-making authority for projects and applications and works at peer and leader levels. The incumbent may also be expected to troubleshoot issues at a complex level and appropriately escalate issues to other resources, as needed. The incumbent participates in meetings, presentations, visioning sessions, planning sessions, implementation activities, and supports functions system wide. May be responsible for leading cross functional teams using project management skills to achieve desired results

Requirements:

• Must possess strong technical and business knowledge as typically obtained through the completion of Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Epidemiology, Computer Sciences, Process Engineering, Business, Healthcare, Information systems or related field
• A minimum of four to seven years of experience or equivalent as typically obtained in one or multiple areas: reporting and/or analytics in clinical, financial, insurance, utilization, patient satisfaction, supply chain, HR, clinical application configuration, or related field
• Must possess significant knowledge of cross functional departments in order to serve as a liaison and provide relevant guidance or leadership
• Must possess strong project management skills and ability to work independently, manage large, multiple projects, complex reports, while organizing priorities
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and critical thinking skills are required
• Strong technical skills as appropriate for position (SQL/Ansi SQL, SAS, Tableau, Excel, clinical software applications, etc.)
• This is a remote position. In this role you would work Monday through Friday normal business hours 8am - 5pm and can be a remote position if you live in the following states only: AL, AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV & WY. No other states will be considered
• Experience with system implementation and project management
• Additional experience with specialized applications in related area also preferred
• Experience with department specific software (Cerner, NextGen, Centricity, TSI, and Quality Advisor, SAS or SSRS), including advanced integrated or independent report writing applications
• Master's degree or higher in relevant field
• Advanced knowledge in area of expertise
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred