Sr. Data Engineer

Your Opportunity

As a Data Engineer you will help design, build, and maintain the data pipelines and products that enable Vytalize Health to “Care for the Doctors that Take Care of Us”. Working cross functionally, your solutions will drive better patient outcomes, that help reduce total cost of care, and enable Vytalize Health to scale into the future as we expand our reach to more practices and patients. Additionally, you will be part of a small and powerful group of high performing healthcare data and software engineers, where you will support each other's professional growth through mentorship and tight collaboration.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and systems to meet business needs

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and ensure data quality

• Implement scalable data storage and processing systems capable of handling large datasets

• Develop and maintain data pipelines and systems for ingesting data from various sources and ensuring proper data formatting for analysis

• Create and maintain data models, dictionaries, and metadata

• Document new and existing data systems, designs, processes, and procedures

• Implement data quality control processes to validate and clean data prior to analysis

• Design and implement security measures to protect sensitive data and ensure data privacy

• Optimize data systems for performance and scalability to support organizational growth

• Stay updated with the latest tools and technologies in data engineering to meet the organization's evolving data requirements

• Work collaboratively with other engineers in an Agile environment.

• Trace, debug, and correct data anomalies in data pipelines and products.

• Work on-call 3-9% of the year, one week at a time, to support production failures and emergent business needs.

• Mentor and learn from colleagues and peers through regular participation in “Lunch & Learns”, pair/mob programming/design, and formal mentorship relationships.

What Will Make You Successful Here

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field.

• 2+ years of experience as a data or software engineer in the VBC or healthcare space.

• Strong healthcare experience working with, ingesting, and delivering a variety of healthcare data formats such as CCDAs, 837s, FHIR APIs, CDS Hooks, and other HL7 data types/implementation patterns.

• Strong understanding of data lake, data warehousing, data modeling, and SQL

• Experience with technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, and Kafka Proficiency in Python and SQL Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow

• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS

• Experience developing systems that feed into observability and telemetry platforms such as CloudWatch, Sumo Logic, or Datadog

• Experience building and using APIs

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience with the following systems, technologies, and topics are a significant plus:

• Tuva

• Epic, NextGen, Athena, ECW EHR Integrations

• Clinical Decision Support Tools and Workflows

• Clinical and Claims ingestion

• Value Based Healthcare and Accountable Care Organizations

• Working within a start-up

Perks/Benefits

• Competitive base compensation

• Annual bonus potential

• Health benefits effective on start date; 100% coverage for base plan, up to 90% coverage on all other plans for individuals and families

• Health & Wellness Program; up to $300 per quarter for your overall well-being available on start date

• 401K plan effective on the first of the month after your start date; 100% of up to 4% of your annual salary

• Unlimited (or generous) paid "Vytal Time", and 5 paid sick days after your first 90 days

• Company paid STD/LTD

• Technology setup

• Ability to help build a market leader in value-based healthcare at a rapidly growing organization

Disclaimer:

*Please note at no time during our screening, interview, or selection process do we ask for additional personal information (beyond your resume) or account/financial information. We will also never ask for you to purchase anything; nor will we ever interview you via text message. Any communication received from a Vytalize Health recruiter during your screening, interviewing, or selection process will come from an email ending in @vytalizehealth.com

*We fully embrace the power of AI and encourage innovative, responsible use of emerging technologies in our work. However, during the interview and assessment process, it’s essential that we evaluate your individual skills, problem-solving ability, and technical mastery without external assistance.

Candidates must complete all interviews and assessments independently.

Use of AI tools, platforms, or automated assistance during interviews or assessments is not permitted. Unauthorized use will result in immediate disqualification from the hiring process and withdrawal of employment consideration.

Our goal is to ensure a fair and accurate assessment of your true capabilities—the same creativity and critical thinking we value once you join our team.