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Data Analytics Engineer (Hybrid)

Westchester Medical Center Health Network

HybridValhalla, NYentryPosted 3d ago

Job description

Job Summary

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As an Analytics Engineer within the Operational Excellence & Enterprise Analytics Department, you will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our network enterprise data warehouse, thus enabling our organization to make data-driven decisions and improvements. The ideal candidate has skills as a data pipeline developer and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. You must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams and systems in the clinical and non-clinical domains. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to enable data-driven decision making for strategic, operational, and clinical domains.

Responsibilities

  • Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, loading, and transformation (ELT) of data into our enterprise data warehouse (EDW) from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and Cloud data warehousing technologies (Azure, AWS, Snowflake, etc.).

  • Create and maintain optimal data pipeline ingestion architecture for various unstructured and structured data sources.

  • Strong business process acumen with the ability to attribute how specific clinical or non-clinical business processes generate data.

  • With a comprehensive understanding of how our operational processes generate data, develop the transformation logic to establish structured and analytical data repositories across various domains.

  • Using data orchestration and scheduling techniques, combine and organize siloed data from multiple data storage locations, making it available for data analysis tools and enabling automation.

  • Develop and maintain front-end analytics tools and dashboards (Tableau/Power BI) that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into operational performance and other key business performance metrics.

  • Successfully implement sound data cataloging & and analytics development best practices to create organized inventories and source control which aid in data governance.

  • Ensure data quality & governance at the enterprise level by utilizing data lineage techniques and following standard data documentation practices.

  • Collaborate with stakeholders including Executive leadership, Operations Management, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.

  • Ensure internal and external data security standards are maintained to safeguard our enterprise and patient data.

  • Provide recommendations to enhance our data engineering techniques and architecture design.

  • Create data tools and collaborate with management engineering, analytics, and data scientist team members to assist them in building and optimizing various analytics solutions.

  • Utilize agile skills that draw from other disciplines such as management consulting, business administration, organizational development, information technology, and computer science.

Qualifications/Requirements

Experience:

Minimum of 1 year of experience in an Analytics Engineer role, with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, or another quantitative field, required.

  • Proficiency in SQL, required

  • CI/CD development experience for data transformation with SQL, highly preferred

  • Experience with Cloud Data Warehouse architecture (Snowflake/Azure), preferred

  • Experience with Python, R, or other programming language, preferred

Education:

Bachelor’s degree, required

, Master’s degree, preferred. Licenses / Certifications:

N/A

Skills:

Experience in SQL development, table design, pipeline design and build, pipeline monitoring, orchestration & scheduling, data profiling, expertise in analyzing data to identify gaps and inconsistencies, troubleshooting, dashboard development/visualization, Cloud EDWs (Snowflake/Azure preferred), Data modeling, Data documentation, SSMS, SQL Server, SSIS Visual Studio. Excellent written and verbal communication with a strong drive for perfection/professionalism in delivery and presentation. Proven ability to work both independently on projects and as part of a larger team. Advanced proficiency in statistics and statistical software with an ability to visualize data for improvement/performance monitoring.

Special Requirements

Physical Requirements:

  • Physical Activity (please check one box):

☐ Sedentary Work

(involves sitting most of the time, occasionally walking and standing; requires lifting no more than 10 pounds at a time and/or occasionally lifting or carrying objects)

☒ Light Work

(involves lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds; requires moderate mobility to different work locations)

☐ Medium Work

(involves substantial physical activity and mobility; and lifting no more than 50 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 pounds.)

☐ Heavy Work

(involves some type of manual labor including operating heavy machinery/ equipment or physical labor; requires lifting no more than 100 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 50 pounds)