Data Engineer (ETL Specialist)

Enlace Health delivers the only end-to-end solution that solves the infrastructure challenges driving today’s unsustainable healthcare system. Connecting payers, providers, and patients, Enlace™ empowers any type of healthcare delivery model, from facilitating retrospective programs to enabling risk for prospective programs. Combining executive-level healthcare DNA with an extensible technology platform, Enlace is the bridge from chaotic healthcare to the healthcare world when Triple Aim optimization is truly realized.

At Enlace Health, our people are our greatest asset. Our culture is founded upon integrity, hard work, and the relentless pursuit to make a difference. We think creatively, we like a challenge and draw inspiration from each other.

As a Data Engineer (ETL Specialist), you will deliver scalable, performant ETL processes in multi-tenant cloud infrastructures that produce measurably high quality data sets. The ideal candidate will have prior experience working with commercial and CMS medical claims data.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a contributing member of a highly effective, self organizing, autonomous software development team, capable of completing all aspects of the sdlc, requirements through support and maintenance.
• Design and implement human and system readable enterprise data schemas, e.g. AWS Glue catalog and service registry.
• Analyze and Profile large, variant data sets to determine fitness-for-use.
• Clean, transform, enhance, and validate large, variant data sets.
• Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate ETL software components.
• Work with Subject Matter Experts and Product to elaborate need statements into actionable implementation plans.
• Identify opportunities and implement performance optimizations to achieve scalability and high performance/throughput.
• Facilitate data ingress processes with clients during onboarding.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a focus on ETL and data.
• Expert level skills in one or more programming languages; Python is a plus.
• Expert level skills in SQL including performance tuning, indexing, query plans, stored procedures, DDL.
• Expert level skills in at least one database technology, e.g. Postgres, AWS Athena, Redshift.
• Prior experience working in healthcare, particularly with member claims data.
• Experience with ETL frameworks/tools, e.g. AWS Glue, NiFi, SSIS, Informatica, Pentaho, Talend.
• Exposure to file formats, compression, and encryption; CSV, Parquet, Avro, JSON, EDI, Snappy, gzip, LZO, PGP.
• Experience with data modeling and design; primary keys, normalization, partitioning, and constraints.
• Experience designing for schema evolution and data migration.
• Experience with unit and integration testing with a focus on data quality, veracity.
• Hands on experience developing in the cloud including Infrastructure as Code, preferably in AWS.
• Exposure to Big Data technologies, e.g. Spark, Hudi, Presto, Airflow.
• Familiarity with Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Data LakeHouse, Data Mesh concepts.

Success Measures: 

• In 3 months: 
• Become oriented with Enlace’s software environments and tech stack.
• Begin working effectively within Enlace’s SDLC process.
• Make contributions to ETL code base.

In 6 months:

• Analyze and profile several client member claims data sets.
• Successfully catalog several enterprise data schemas.
• Build/enhance and deliver several data transformations between client specific and Enlace canonical schemas.

In 12 months:

• Produce demonstrably high quality data outputs.
• Optimize team’s delivery of ETL subsystem; improving the team’s performance beyond individual success.
• Automate support and maintenance of ETL subsystems using Telemetry.
• Provide technical and consultative support on complex technical matters to our clients and non-engineering staff.
• Act as a champion of best practices and data quality.

Position Perks:

Enlace Health offers competitive benefits and perks to all our employees! Our comprehensive benefits package is one of the many ways we show our employees how valued they are. All full-time employees are eligible for the following:

• FREE medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees on select plans
• $1740 annual contribution into qualifying HSAs
• UNLIMITED time off
• Matching 401(k) plan
• Mac laptop and accessories
• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability
• Company-paid life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Annual professional development stipend

All employees are required to maintain confidentiality as related to patient information. Employees are required to follow the acceptable use policy while using any information systems owned or controlled by Enlace. Any disclosures of confidential information made unlawfully outside the proper course of duty will be treated as a serious disciplinary offense. Security roles and responsibilities include:

• Implementing and acting in accordance with the organization’s information security policies
• Protecting assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction, or interference
• Executing particular security processes or activities
• Ensuring responsibility is assigned to the individual for actions taken
• Reporting security events or potential events or other security risks to the organization

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. The requirements listed above are representative of the minimum knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform the essential functions of the job according to specific company requirements. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Qualified applicants will be afforded equal employment opportunities without discrimination.