Introduction

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a Principal Data Engineer with HCA Healthcare you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Benefits

HCA Healthcare, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Would you like to unlock your potential with a leading healthcare provider dedicated to the growth and development of our colleagues? Join the HCA Healthcare family! We will give you the tools and resources you need to succeed in our organization. We are looking for an enthusiastic Principal Data Engineer to help us reach our goals. Unlock your potential!

Job Summary and Qualifications

HCA Healthcare ITG

Job Summary:

The role requires working closely with others, frequently in a matrixed environment, and with little supervision. As a Principal Data Engineer/Architect level, the role requires 'self-starters' who are proficient in problem solving and capable of bringing clarity to complex situations. It requires contributing to strategic technical direction and system architecture approaches for individual projects and platform migrations. The culture of the organization places an emphasis on teamwork, so social and interpersonal skills are equally important as technical capability. Due to the emerging and fast-evolving nature of GCP/Big Data technology and practice, the position requires that one stay well-informed of technological advancements and be proficient at putting new innovations into effective practice.

Responsible for leading GCP development efforts, driving adoption and appropriate use of technology and consulting on internal and external development efforts to ensure code quality and sound architecture. This position that assumes the responsibility for project success and the upward development of team members technical skills. They are the development team's point of contact that must interface with business partners of varying roles ranging from technical staff to executive leadership. In addition, this candidate will have a history of increasing responsibility in a multi-role team. This position requires a candidate who can analyze business requirements, perform design tasks, construct, test, and implement cutting-edge technical data solutions with minimal supervision.

As a Principal Data Engineer/Architect, you will work closely with all team members to create a modular, scalable solution that addresses current needs, but will also serve as a foundation for future success. The position will be critical in building the team’s engineering practices in test driven development, continuous integration, and automated deployment and is a hands-on team member who actively coaches the team to solve complex problems. She / he will be responsible for the design, development, performance and support of the Cloud Platform components.

This candidate will have a record of accomplishment of participation in successful projects in a fast-paced, mixed team (consultant and employee) environment. In addition, the applicant must be willing to train and mentor other developers to prepare them for assuming the responsibilities.

General Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building and supporting a GCP/Hadoop-based ecosystem designed for enterprise-wide analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Bring new data sources into GCP/HDFS, transform and load to databases.
• Lead projects in delivering the data and projects on-time
• Closely collaborates with team members to successfully execute development initiatives using Agile practices and principles
• Leads efforts to design, development, deploy, and support software systems
• Experience with HL7, FHIR, and Whistle mapping.
• Collaborates with business analysts, project lead, management and customers on requirements
• Participates in large-scale development projects involving multiple areas outside of core team
• Designs fit-for-purpose products to ensure products align to the customer's strategic plans and technology road maps
• Demonstrates deep understanding and coaches’ value-based decision making and Agile principles across teams
• Coaches team on clinical data, existing system structure, constraints and deficiencies with product
• Shares knowledge and experience to contribute to growth of overall team capabilities
• Participates in the deployment, change, configuration, management, administration and maintenance of deployment process and systems
• Work closely with management, architects and other teams to develop and implement the projects.
• Actively participate in technical group discussions and adopt any new technologies to improve the development and operations.
• Focuses on customer satisfaction
• Rapidly prototypes and delivers just-in-time solutions
• Gather requirements, designs, constructs and delivers solutions with minimal team interaction
• Works in an environment with rapidly changing business requirements and priorities
• Demonstrates deep understanding and acts as a leader in the team’s continuous integration and continuous delivery automation pipeline
• Work collaboratively with Data Scientists, business, and IT leaders throughout the company to understand Cloud/Big Data needs and use cases.

Education, Experience and Certifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or related field – Required
• Master's Degree in computer science or related field – Preferred
• 3+ years of experience in Data Engineer – Required
• 1+ year(s) of experience in Healthcare – Preferred
• 10+ years of experience in Information Technology – Required
• CCDH (Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop) – Preferred
• GCP Cloud Professional Data Engineer – Preferred

Other Required Qualifications:

A successful candidate will have:

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  Strong understanding of best practices and standards for GCP/Hadoop application design and implementation.
• Hands on experience with Big Data Technologies and experience with many of the following components:
• • Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Impala, Hive, Solr, YARN
  • Flume, Spark Streaming, Kafka
  • HBase or Cassandra
  • SQL, JSON, Avro, Parquet
• Two Year of hands-on experience with GCP platform and experience with many of the following components:
• • GCS, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions
  • Bigtable, Cloud SQL
  • Kafka, Pub/Sub
  • Python, Spark, Scala or Java
  • BigQuery, Dataflow, Data Fusion
  • OpenShift, Docker
• Experience with Unstructured Data
  
• Understanding of Lambda Design Architectures and Real-Time Streaming
• Ability to multitask and to balance competing priorities.
• Requires strong practical experience in agile application development, file systems management, and DevOps discipline and practice using short-cycle iterations to deliver continuous business value.
• Expertise in planning, implementing, supporting, and tuning Cloud/Hadoop ecosystem environments using a variety of tools and techniques.
• Knowledge of all facets of Cloud/Hadoop ecosystem development including ideation, design, implementation, tuning, and operational support.

A successful candidate may have:

• • Experience in Healthcare Domain
  • Experience in Patient Data
  • Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Hardware/Operating Systems:

• Linux, UNIX
• GCP
• Distributed, highly-scalable processing environments

Databases:

• NoSQL, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB, Cosmos, In-memory, Columnar, other emerging technologies
• Other Languages – Java, Python, Scala, R
• Build Systems – TFS, Github
• Ability to integrate tools outside of the core Cloud/Hadoop ecosystem

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

• Prolonged sitting or standing at computer workstation including use of mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
• Requires ability to provide after-hours support.
• Occasional Travel: The job may require travel from time- to-time, but not on a regular basis.

HCA Healthcare’s Information Technology Group (ITG) delivers healthcare IT products and services to HCA Healthcare's portfolio of business and partners, including Parallon, HealthTrust and Sarah Cannon.

For decades, ITG has been a pioneer in the industry, leading the transformation of healthcare into a new era of quality and connectivity. ITG relies on the breadth of the organization and depth of technical expertise to advance and enhance today’s healthcare and to enable our physicians and clinicians to provide world-class, innovative care for patients.

ITG employees rally around the noble cause of transforming healthcare through technology and find inspiration in the meaningful work they do—creating a culture that follows our mission statement which begins by saying “above all else we are committed to the care and improvement of human life.”

If you want a career in technology and have a heart for healthcare, apply your expertise to a mission that matters.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Principal Data Engineer opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.