Data Engineer
HealthPartners1 month ago
Bloomington, MN, USAMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders, analysts, and data scientists to frame problems, clean and integrate data, and provision data on demand.
- Design, build, and optimize scalable pipelines for data ingestion, cleansing, transformation, integration, validation, and access.
- Create data models and design specifications for data flows and storage across multiple pipelines.
- Extract data from complex upstream sources while ensuring accuracy, validity, reliability, and appropriate data quality practices.
- Evaluate technologies and frameworks for scalable cross-product data assets and support a cloud-first data architecture.
- Collaborate with data scientists to train, develop, and operationalize machine learning models.
- Apply data governance, modeling, and handling procedures compliant with applicable laws and policies.
- Lead root cause analysis, resolve recurring failures, monitor system performance, and enhance the data environment.
- Perform unit testing, participate in code reviews, and promote engineering standards, CI/CD, and best practices.
- Release features, resolve user issues, and collaborate with technology teams to meet sprint goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or related field with four years of business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling, or data engineering experience, or a master's degree in computer science, software engineering, mathematics, or a related field.
- At least two years of hands-on data engineering experience.
- At least two years of experience with SQL and Python.
- At least two years of experience with modern big data platforms such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Power BI, or Databricks.
- Knowledge of data modeling, including star schemas, snowflake schemas, denormalized models, and third normal form.
- Knowledge of Parquet, CSV, JSON, batch processing, partitioning, distributed processing, and real-time streaming.
- Experience with version control and CI/CD practices; Git is preferred.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder-partnership skills.
- Preferred experience with Agile/Scrum, public cloud infrastructure, DataOps, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, configuration management, healthcare data, and payer or care delivery processes.
- Preferred expertise with relational databases, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, performance tuning, Azure technologies, event streaming, MLOps, and SRE practices.
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work environment with most work performed remotely.
- Expected onsite attendance approximately one to two times per month for collaboration, meetings, and business needs.
- Monday through Friday during core business hours.
- Additional compensation may be available depending on role, such as shift differential, bonus, sales incentive, or productivity pay.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About HealthPartners
HealthPartners is a consumer-governed nonprofit health care organization that provides medical and dental care and sells health insurance plans to individuals, employers, and public programs. It operates clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, and an online clinic across its care system, serving more than 1.8 million health plan members. Founded in 1957 and headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota, the organization integrates care delivery with plan administration.