Senior Data Engineer (EPIC) - Remote

Optum is a health care innovation company that develops data analytics, AI, cybersecurity, and health care technology solutions. The Senior Data Engineer will support the VBC Interoperability team by designing and delivering Epic and care gap integration solutions, validating data and member attribution, coordinating stakeholders, and developing tools and workflows for Risk and Quality procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain relationships with key client stakeholders, Risk and Value Operations/Dyads, Care Gap point of care users and Data Lane representatives, internal EHR personnel, and development teams to position all parties for success
• Foster innovation and coordinate with Epic, data teams, operations, to validate member attribution, roster management and feeding of care gaps both up and downstream with platforms within reasonable timelines (ex. ACOs, CMS or internal to Optum WellMed, GapRepo ,DataCORE, ECDH and others)
• Design and execute EHR development tasks, environment strategy, objectives, and roadmap alignment in support of integration and development team goals with minimal disruption to care delivery operations
• Liaise between and cross-collaborate among internal Epic teams to understand end-to-end native Epic clinical workflows and weigh against proposed workflows involving newly integrated applications
• Conduct meetings and presentations to communicate information effectively to customers, business users, and technical staff
• Prepare comprehensive documentation, including Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Project tasks/plans for MSSP, ACO and adding other member populations to all Epic instances and their Risk/Quality point of care tools used for closing care gaps. Current/Future State Process Flow and Data Flow diagrams, and Product Roadmap illustrations
• Develop measurements and reporting capabilities to detect internal problems before they result in user-visible outages or data quality issues

Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in a healthcare environment working directly with business stakeholders and technical development teams ideally in the Risk or Quality workspace
• 2+ years of Epic experience ideally with Epic certifications in Healthy Planet, Clarity, Caboodle and/or SQL
• Hands-on experience with data/application integration methods and Epic data ingestion processes
• Experience utilizing or implementing enterprise AI tools, automated workflow solutions, or intelligent systems to streamline business processes
• Proven experience with clinical workflows, healthcare business processes and risk and quality workflows
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of healthcare business experience, including Provider Network Management, CMS guidelines/mandates, Payer-Provider relationships, HEDIS, or Member/Patient Risk Management
• Adaptable self-starter with the initiative to learn and develop new technical skill sets
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with a proven ability to prioritize workload and manage several projects concurrently
• Proven ability to translate strategic initiatives into actions through a thoughtful, organized, and well-planned approach
• Proven excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Demonstrated solid communication skills with a proven track record of initiating conversations with both business and technology leaders
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work in a matrixed organization, aligning and developing solid relationships with internal teams and external partners