What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Engineer position at Janus Health: Shape the Future of Healthcare?
Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Data Engineer. The Data Engineering team is responsible for inbounding healthcare data from customers, validating its quality, transforming the data to meet the needs of consumer applications, and saving the quality data to our datastores. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data engineering, excellent leadership skills, and experience with Databricks and PostgreSQL in an AWS environment.
Responsibilities
· Ensure the successful inbounding, validation, and storage of healthcare data.
· Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks and PostgreSQL on AWS.
· Implement and enforce data quality standards and best practices.
· Support performance and scalability initiatives for company databases.
· Monitor and optimize data workflows for performance and reliability.
· Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
· Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our data infrastructure remains cutting-edge.
Please note that this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, expected outcomes or qualifications associated with the role. Janus reserves the right to make changes and/or assign additional responsibilities of a role within reason at any time with or without notice.
Qualifications:
· 4 years of relevant work experience.
· Strong expertise in Databricks, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
· Experience with data quality validation and data governance.
· Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
· Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
· Flexibility and comfort working in a dynamic and constantly changing environment of a startup.
Preferred Qualifications:
· 6 years of relevant work experience.
· Understanding of techniques for optimizing Spark jobs, including partitioning, caching, and efficient use of resources.
· Understanding of Spark’s execution model and how to troubleshoot performance issues as well as PySpark notebook ETL processes.
· DBA experience with Aurora PostgreSQL.
· Engineering experience working with a healthcare revenue cycle products.
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field and/or equivalent work experience.
Travel Requirements
This role does require domestic travel. These travel expectations will be communicated by the department manager or executive. Janus is committed to providing as much flexibility and advanced notice as possible related to scheduling travel.
Physical Demands
This job operated in a professional remote or in-office environment. This job uses standard office equipment. This job is largely a sedentary role; however, the employee has the flexibility to move as needed. Constantly operates a computer, phone, keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment. The employee frequently communicates with internal and/or external people. Must be able to exchange accurate information in a timely manner. Must be able to recognize objects from short and long distances.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Janus is an equal opportunity employer. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and appreciate our differences. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, ancestry, sex, gender identity and expression, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, languages spoken, veteran status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Further, consistent with applicable federal and state law, Janus provides reasonable accommodations when requested by qualified applicants or employees with disabilities, unless doing so would cause an undue hardship. Janus’ policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. If you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the People team.