Data Engineering Manager

Candidates hired for remote positions must reside in Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Montana, or Wisconsin.

Job Summary

The Data Engineering Manager plays a pivotal role in operationalizing and advancing data and analytics for CareOregon’s CMO (Chief Medical Officer) clinical initiatives. This involves managing a team focused on building, managing and optimizing data pipelines and moving them effectively into production for consumers, including data analysts, data scientists and other roles that need curated information for data and analytics use cases. The Data Engineering Manager ensures compliance with CareOregon data governance and security requirements enabling faster data access, integrated data reuse and acceleration of time-to-solution for data and analytics initiatives. Additionally, they are responsible for monitoring and assessing the accuracy and integrity of the data within the CMO Division.

Essential Responsibilities

• Manage team responsibilities around creating, maintaining and optimizing data pipelines as workloads move from development to production for specific use cases.
• Manage data pipelines through stages, beginning with ingestion of data sources through integration to consumption for specific use cases.
• Lead team in utilizing innovative tools, techniques and architectures to partially or completely automate tasks to minimize manual processes, reduce the potential for error and improve productivity.
• Partner with IS leadership to ensure CMO compliance with data governance policies and to coordinate data quality efforts.
• Assess and improve the current state of data quality and availability for CMO division needs.
• Resolve and escalate data quality issues proactively and in a timely manner.
• Engage with business leadership to quantify and articulate the business impact of data quality issues.
• Partner with business data analysts, data scientists, and other data and analytics consumers to refine their data requirements for initiatives and consumption.
• Lead efforts around training data and analytics consumers about data pipelines and preparation techniques to make it easier for them to integrate and consume the data they need for their own use cases.
• Propose innovative data ingestion, preparation, integration and operationalization techniques to optimally address data requirements.
• Promote CareOregon’s available data and analytics capabilities and expertise to CMO staff and department leaders.
• Collaborate with and educate staff and leadership on how to leverage data and analytics capabilities to achieve business goals.

Organizational Responsibilities

• Perform work in alignment with the organization’s mission, vision and values.
• Support the organization’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion by fostering a culture of open mindedness, cultural awareness, compassion and respect for all individuals.
• Strive to meet annual business goals in support of the organization’s strategic goals.
• Adhere to the organization’s policies, procedures and other relevant compliance needs.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Experience and/or Education

Required

• Minimum 6 years’ relevant experience that includes some or all of the following:
  • Data ETL experience
  • Development utilizing tools such as Snowflake, Databricks, and/or similar tools
  • Experience with multi-source and multi-data from different format sources and/or data structure
  • Analyzing data quality and recommending process improvements
  • Engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience working in health care payer/managed care organizations

Preferred

• Data management experience within the healthcare industry
• Experience with Snowflake and Databricks
• Experience in planning or leading data quality initiatives
• Experience with statistical software packages, such as Python or SAS
• Minimum 1 year managing data engineering or data quality teams
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a supervisory position or minimum 1 year experience in a supervisory position with completion of CareOregon’s Aspiring Leaders Program

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

Knowledge

• In depth knowledge of commonly used database programming languages for relational databases (e.g. SQL)
• Strong understanding and experience in data analysis
• Knowledge of emerging data ingestion and integration technologies
• Knowledge of the basic concepts of managed care preferred
• Knowledge of health insurance business entities, relationships and processes preferred

Skills and Abilities

• Strong ability to design, build and manage data pipelines for data structures encompassing data transformation, data models, schemas, metadata and workload management
• Strong ability to work with organizational entities to integrate analytics and data science output into business processes and workflows
• Strong ability to work with and optimize existing ETL/ELT processes and data integration, data preparation flows and helping to move them into production
• Ability to work with large, heterogeneous datasets to build and optimize data pipelines, pipeline architectures and integrated datasets
• Ability to extract business value while considering automation opportunities
• Skilled in communicating application or product or program effectiveness at all layers of an organization, including staff and leaders
• Excellent analytical and research skills
• Excellent customer service skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• High degree of motivation and discipline
• Ability to proactively work to build and improve the department, quality, productivity, and customer service
• Ability to take the initiative to see beyond the original request so that all logically related work is completed without needing a specific request for implied steps
• Ability to delegate and coordinate tasks for multiple people
• Ability to consistently manage multiple projects and chronic deadline pressure
• Ability to manage the workloads of others and interact effectively and motivate staff to perform at their highest level
• Ability to make sound judgments as to how to prioritize work assignments
• Ability to demonstrate high degree of emotional intelligence through conflicts, difficult situations and disappointments
• Ability to continuously learn to ensure team and systems stay up-to date on modern technologies and practices
• Ability to effectively collaborate and plan with coworkers and others

• Ability to work effectively with diverse individuals and groups

• Ability to learn, focus, understand, and evaluate information and determine appropriate actions
• Ability to accept direction and feedback, as well as tolerate and manage stress
• Ability to see, read, and perform repetitive finger and wrist movement for at least 6 hours/day
• Ability to hear and speak clearly for at least 3-6 hours/day

Working Conditions

Work Environment(s): Indoor/Office Community Facilities/Security Outdoor Exposure

Member/Patient Facing: No Telephonic In Person

Hazards: May include, but not limited to, physical and ergonomic hazards.

Equipment: General office equipment

Travel: May include occasional required or optional travel outside of the workplace; the employee’s personal vehicle, local transit or other means of transportation may be used.

Work Location: Work from home

Schedule: Ability to occasionally work outside of standard office hours

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Candidates of color are strongly encouraged to apply. CareOregon is committed to building a linguistically and culturally diverse and inclusive work environment.

Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are an equal opportunity employer. CareOregon considers all candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.

Visa sponsorship is not available at this time.