Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. We deliver insights at critical points of care for better decisions - from streamlining prior authorizations to delivering comprehensive medication histories to facilitating messages between providers.
Summary As a Senior Cloud Data Engineer - GCP in Data & Analytics' Data Core team, you'll design, build and run the Google Cloud data pipelines behind Surescripts' products. You'll work hands-on in BigQuery and Airflow (Cloud Composer), building reliable, scalable data pipelines and leveraging Dataflow and other GCP services where appropriate. Partnering with data analysts, data scientists and engineers, you'll help deliver high-quality data that supports better healthcare decisions and advanced analytics across the organization. You'll have ownership in shaping and improving the cloud data platform that powers enterprise analytics and reporting.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain data pipelines using BigQuery and Airflow (Cloud Composer), leveraging Dataflow and other GCP services as needed for ingestion, transformation and loading.
- Optimize pipelines for performance, scalability and cost.
- Build data-quality checks, validation and monitoring; troubleshoot and resolve pipeline issues.
- Develop and maintain BigQuery data models and schemas that support analytics, BI and machine learning initiatives.
- Partner with analysts and data scientists to turn data requirements into technical solutions.
- Manage infrastructure as code and integrate pipelines into CI/CD workflows.
- Apply data governance and PHI security best practices, and help maintain our data catalog.
- Evaluate and leverage AI-assisted tools and emerging technologies to improve engineering efficiency, code quality, documentation and operational effectiveness.
- Document pipelines and processes, and bring forward improvements to how we build.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of professional data engineering experience.
- Solid understanding of data warehousing, data lake concepts and data modeling.
- 2+ years building production data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform, including BigQuery and Airflow/Cloud Composer.
- Strong SQL and Python skills.
- Experience with data-quality tools and techniques.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and CI/CD practices.
- Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, accelerate code development, troubleshoot issues and enhance engineering workflows.
- Ability to explain complex technical work clearly and to work independently and as part of a team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on Dataflow experience.
- Experience with Terraform.
- Experience with Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and other GCP services.
- Experience with Looker, Tableau or Power BI.
- Healthcare data experience, especially pharmacy, claims or prescription data.
- Experience supporting machine learning or data science workloads.
- Experience with HIPAA and PHI data security and governance.
- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification.
To be considered for employment, applicants must have a valid U.S. work authorization allowing work without restrictions with Surecripts in the U.S. At this time, we are unable to provide support or provide sponsorship for immigration benefits such as work visas. Additionally, we do not participate in academic training programs or work-study programs through an academic institution that require employer endorsement of F-1/CPT or F-1/STEM.
Why Wait? Apply Now
We’re a midsize company. This means you’re not just another employee ID number. Here, you can build real relationships and feel supported by truly awesome people with diverse backgrounds and talents in an innovative and collaborative work culture. We strive to create an environment where you can be yourself, share your ideas and work your way. We offer opportunities for employee development, as well as competitive compensation packages and extensive benefits.
At Surescripts, base pay is one part of our Total Rewards Package (which may also include bonus, benefits etc.) and is determined within a range. The base pay range for this position is $153,100 - $187,100 per year. Your base pay may vary within or outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including (but not limited to) your qualifications, skills, experience, and location. Benefits include, but are not limited to, comprehensive healthcare (including infertility coverage), generous paid time off including paid childbirth and parental leave and mental health days, pet insurance, and 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. To learn more, review the Keep You and Yours Healthy, Balancing Work and Life, and Where Talent Takes Shape links under the Better Benefits. Better Work. Better Life section of our careers site.
Physical and Mental Requirements While performing duties of this job, an employee may be required to perform any, or all of the following: attend meetings in and out of the office, travel, communicate effectively (both orally and in writing), and be able to effectively use computers and other electronic and standard office equipment with, or without, a reasonable accommodation. Additionally, this job requires certain mental demands, including the ability to use judgement, withstand moderate amounts of stress and maintain attention to detail with, or without, a reasonable accommodation.
Surescripts is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
