DATA ENGINEER

Magnolia Medical Technologies is expanding the development our Magnolia Analytics® solution and hiring a Data Engineer to develop our solutions to challenges that have continued to afflict our healthcare system. The Data Engineer will bring robust experience and ability to own the API strategy for a cloud based warehouse environment that configures and loads customer data for modeling and utilization. 

2024 is a critical foundational year at Magnolia Medical Technologies (MMT) for systems and technology. MMT identified the need for a customer facing analytics solution as part of product implementation. Magnolia Analytics® requires this experienced Data Engineer to support our B2B data pipeline strategy that is integral for scaling our first 100 Magnolia Analytics® customers and beyond.

About Us

Magnolia Medical Technologies is a privately held organization, delivering revolutionary solutions to challenges that have long plagued our healthcare system. We design and build products that significantly improve patient outcomes. We have launched the innovative and broadly patented Steripath® blood collection system, the only device on the market proven to significantly reduce false positive blood cultures - the standard-of-care for diagnosing sepsis. We have achieved outstanding clinical results and proudly count some of the most respected healthcare systems in the country as early customers. We are offering qualified candidates an opportunity to get in early and help build a company dedicated to improving the health and well-being of millions of people around the world.

About the Role

The objective of the Data Engineer is to own the API strategy of Magnolia Analytics® customers into our Snowflake instance. They will perform the initial setup of data from the hospital, transform data into relevant Magnolia Analytics® insights that ultimately power a customer facing dashboard for our customers. In collaboration with customer-facing Clinical Solutions Analysts and Account Managers, they will be the point of contact to maintain current APIs related to hospital data or hospital code changes. They will be the steward of customer data per HIPAA/SOC2 compliance and strive to improve and harden the structure of MMT Snowflake tables.

This position is part of our Revenue Operations team at this foundational stage of organizational growth. With guidance from the Director, You will collaborate with core team members to achieve customer success and achievement of our goals. Ideally, this position is a hybrid and local to the Seattle Office headquarters, working 3 days per week onsite with the team.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Manage cloud-based warehouse environment.
• Expertly configure hospital data and load into Snowflake
• Model data within Snowflake and utilize other Magnolia Medical systems
• Gather, document, communicate and configure to business and user requirements, as well as explore and deliver data solution to these requirements related to Magnolia Analytics®
• Understand and navigate through hospital technological landscapes particularly the EPIC ecosystem
• Partner with Magnolia Medical subject matter and domain experts to develop and maintain hospital data pipeline that provide the foundation of Magnolia Analytics®

Required Skills and Experience

• 7 years of data engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree preferred
• Strong expertise and experience with cloud-based data warehouse (Snowflake)
• Strong understanding of the healthcare EMR, specifically EPIC ecosystem, including data identifiers (patient, payer, provider). *Certified in Epic Beaker and/or Epic Bridges, highly desired.
• Demonstrated experience in data modeling, ability to enrich data, snapshot, etc.
• Mastery of ETL tools: Experience with establishing external access and extract, transform, and load (ETL) strategies with multiple types of data sources, particularly a variety of electronic medical record systems.
• Ability to assemble and query complex data from databases, perform in depth analysis and decipher computational data. *Programming and scripting skills, Java Script
• Strong project leadership skills. Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects/initiatives in a timely and cost-effective manner
• Strong business acumen relative to project business case development and market analysis, and department budget management
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Capability to work in a fasted paced environment and ability to develop entrepreneurship, agility, and open innovation mindset
• Extensive experience with using project management and/or collaboration tools
• Ability to travel frequently between sites as needed

More about Magnolia Medical Technologies

Magnolia Medical Technologies develops, manufactures and markets innovative blood and bodily fluid collection devices to facilitate significant improvements in the accuracy, consistency and predictability of critical laboratory tests.

Dr. Richard Patton, the company’s co-founder and Medical Director, invented and patented the Initial Specimen Diversion Technique (ISDT™) and Initial Specimen Diversion Device (ISDD®) for blood culture collection and contamination prevention, and authored the seminal peer-reviewed publication on this technique published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology in 2010.

The company’s flagship product, Steripath® Initial Specimen Diversion Device® for blood culture collection and contamination prevention, has been clinically proven in 17 clinical studies including 5 peer-reviewed publications to virtually eliminate the preventable error of blood culture contamination and false positive results for the diagnosis of Sepsis – delivering a reduction in false positives of up to 92% with 12-month sustained contamination rates as low as 0.2% and an average annualized cost savings of ~$1M.

Magnolia is establishing the new standard for blood culture integrity and sepsis testing accuracy with a mission to change national blood culture collection guidelines and contamination benchmarks.

The company has amassed an intellectual property portfolio including more than 70 issued method, apparatus and design patents with more than 50 additional patent applications pending. The total potential market for Magnolia’s technology exceeds $2.0 billion annually.

Magnolia Medical is committed to the continued development and successful marketing of innovative products that will transform the way healthcare is practiced around the world. The company supports this effort by offering competitive compensation, incentive packages, benefits and career growth opportunities to the most qualified candidates in the marketplace. Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

For more information, visit magnolia-medical.com

* Must be willing to submit to a criminal background check upon offer of employment.

** As a condition of employment with Magnolia Medical Technologies, you are required to provide proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or qualify for a reasonable accommodation.