1 day ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreSenior
Base Salary
$102k - $179k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable data ingestion, transformation, and delivery pipelines using Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, and SQL.
- Develop curated data products supporting analytics, benchmarking, reporting, AI, and operational decision-making.
- Partner with product, analytics, and business teams to translate complex requirements into reliable data solutions.
- Modernize analytical assets, prototypes, and notebook-based solutions into governed, production-ready data products.
- Implement data quality, observability, lineage, security, and operational monitoring practices.
- Contribute to data architecture, metadata management, data governance, and lakehouse modernization initiatives.
- Optimize data platforms and pipelines for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Develop reusable data platform capabilities, engineering patterns, technical designs, documentation, and operational procedures.
- Troubleshoot complex data, platform, integration, and performance issues.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and development support.
- Evaluate emerging data technologies and recommend improvements to platform capabilities and engineering practices.
Requirements
- Five or more years of relevant experience.
- Strong experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, and SQL.
- Experience designing and building production-grade data pipelines, data products, and data platforms.
- Experience developing cloud-based data solutions using Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or comparable technologies.
- Experience implementing automated testing, monitoring, and deployment practices for data solutions.
- Preferred experience with data modeling, distributed processing, performance optimization, and large-scale structured and semi-structured data engineering.
- Preferred experience with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Asset Bundles, or modern lakehouse architectures.
- Preferred experience developing data products for advanced analytics, machine learning, or AI solutions.
- Preferred knowledge of data governance, metadata management, regulatory requirements, and enterprise data management.
- Preferred experience modernizing legacy analytical solutions and transitioning prototypes into governed production platforms.
- Relevant degree and healthcare, financial services, benchmarking, consulting, or analytics industry experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits plan.
- The role is incentive eligible.
- The posting provides a current salary range of $102,400.00 to $179,000.00.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Vizient
Vizient provides healthcare performance improvement solutions to U.S. hospitals and health systems, combining a group purchasing organization with clinical, operational, and financial analytics and advisory services. Members access a national contract portfolio representing about $156 billion in annual purchasing volume and benchmarking data drawn from extensive provider networks. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, the privately held company serves more than two-thirds of U.S. acute care providers and acquired Kaufman Hall in 2024.