Job Details

  • ID#44937649
  • Address 02108 , Boston,

    Massachusetts

    Boston USA
  • Job type

    Permanent

  • Salary USD Depends on Experience Depends on Experience
  • Hiring Company

    Boston Childrens Hospital

  • Showed17th August 2022
  • Date15th August 20222022-08-15T00:00:00-0700
  • Deadline14th October 2022
  • Category

    Et cetera

Senior Data Engineer

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The Computational Health Informatics Program (www.chip.org) at Boston Children’s Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, is seeking an experienced data engineer to join the SMART Health IT team (http://smarthealthit.org) to make healthcare better!You are an engineering professional who puts users first, is highly communicative, thrives in diverse and cross-functional teams and is interested in creating technology to empower patients, healthcare providers and researchers. As a member of the team that has literally defined the national standards for an “App Store for Health” and for interoperable data on populations, you will be at the center of innovation in healthcare.SMART is an internationally leading, open source, standards-based technology platform that enables innovators to create apps that seamlessly and securely run across the healthcare system. SMART — gaining adoption by Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Medicare, health systems, health IT vendors, app developers and has been written into sweeping laws and regulations to promote a robust health information economy.

About you:
  • Strong background in distributed data processing and software engineering, can build high-quality, scalable data products.
  • Good knowledge of data architectures, databases, data modeling and data infrastructure ecosystem.
  • You love freedom and dislike being micromanaged. Given context, you’re capable of self-direction.
  • Motivated to explore new technologies and learn, and can do so without taking formal education.
  • Passionate about open source and interested in having your work widely used around the world.

Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with partners to understand needs, model tables using data warehouse standard methodologies, and develop data pipelines to transform and load large healthcare datasets.
  • Develop automation and tooling to support distributed querying across federated cloud data repositories.
  • Manage the entire lifecycle of projects independently, including but not limited to, gathering requirements, communicating design decisions to cross-functional teams, and proactively seeking and incorporating user feedback.
  • Present your work at conferences and meetings and collaborate with developers from other organizations to create and improve open standards.

In order to qualify you must have:
  • BS and 5+ years of relevant work experience, MS and 4+ years of relevant work experience, or PhD and 3+ years of relevant work experience
  • Experience in big data technologies (eg. Spark, BigQuery, Redshift, Flink, Map/Reduce, HDFS, Pig, Hive, Presto, Airflow, Luigi, Kafka, Avro, Parquet)
  • Experience building data infrastructure in the cloud (especially AWS)
  • Practical experience with Python and SQL including ability to write, analyze, and debug SQL
  • Comfort working in a variety of tech stacks – a working knowledge of NodeJs and front-end development is a plus but not required
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience with Jupyter notebooks (or similar) is a big plus
  • Ideal candidates will have a deep understanding of technical and functional designs for databases, reporting, and data mining areas.
  • Sharing open source contributions through GitHub is a big plus.

About Us: At Boston Children’s Hospital, the quality of our care – and our inclusive hospital working environment – lies in the diversity of our people. With patients from local communities and 160 countries around the world, we’re committed to reflecting the spectrum of their cultures, while opening doors of opportunity for our team. Here, different talents pursue common goals. Voices are heard and ideas are shared. Join us, and discover how your unique contributions can change lives. Yours included.Boston Children’s Hospital offers competitive compensation and unmatched benefits.

Please Note: During a public health emergency, individuals in this role may be expected to take on additional duties to respond to organizational needs.Boston Children’s Hospital requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Flu, (unless you are eligible for a medical or religious exemption).Boston Children’s Hospital is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.

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