Data Engineer (Remote)

Experience Required

3 - 5 years

Minimum Education Required

Master Degree

Compensation

$15.92 / Hourly

Hours Per Week

40

Number Of Positions

1

Shift

First Shift (Day)

Job Description

Job Description

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying highly scalable, high performance data integration and transformation solutions in Quest's enterprise data platform and the HAS data product. You will work with business customers to design large-scale data processing solutions, develop data pipelines optimized for scaling, and designing, building, and implementing data-driven systems to guide Quest's reporting and analytics. This includes developing processes and solutions for mining, acquiring, transforming, standardizing, enhancing, migrating, verifying, and modeling Quest's enterprise data. In addition, you will enable and assist advanced analytics initiatives that are building, training, deploying, and refining AI/ML models that efficiently analyze vast quantities of data to best serve our patient population.

Responsibilities:

Act as a trusted technical advisor to business customers and internal teams, solving complex data challenges related to healthcare analytics.

Engineer and prepare both internal and customer-facing datasets, ensuring strict adherence to defined technical specifications, internal data standards, and external Statements of Work (SOWs).

Develop and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines to acquire, transform, and provision data for analytics and data science initiatives.

Design and build data models within cloud data warehouses (e.g., Google BigQuery, Snowflake) that are optimized for performance and scalability.

Collaborate with SD3 Data Scientists to productionize and manage the handoff of machine learning model inferences into our persistent data stores.

Partner with architecture and lead engineers to implement and adhere to modern DevSecOps standards, including CI/CD and version control using GitHub.

Ensure all data solutions are compliant with data governance, security policies, and healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA).

Contribute to organizational improvements in processes and technology by adopting new tools and best practices in data engineering.

Perform and support unit, integration, and performance testing to ensure that quality and reliability of data pipelines.

Qualifications:

Required WorkExperience:

3-5 years of data development experience with a focus on building data pipelines and ETL processes

3-5 years of experience with the cloud (AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform) - GCP experience highly preferred

3-5 years of experience in cloud-based data warehouses (Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics)

3-5 years of experience with cloud-based ETL/ELT tools (Matillion, Glue, Data Factory). Matillion experience is strongly preferred.

Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or relevant degree)

Preferred Work Experience:

Experience with version control systems (Git)

Understanding of and willingness to embrace Agile Principles (Scrum)

Master's Degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or relevant degree)

Physical and Mental Requirements:

Open mindset, ability to quickly adapt new technologies and learn new practice

Knowledge:

Demonstrated knowledge of SQL, Java, Python, C/C++, Scala, Julia, and/or other modern data and analytics programming languages

Demonstrated knowledge of data modeling principles and database systems.

Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

Demonstrated knowledge of operating systems (macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris and/or UNIX)

Skills:

Coding

Data Warehousing

Database schema optimization

Database Systems

Critical thinking skills

Business communication

ETL

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Place of Work

On-site

Requisition ID

69368

Job Type

Full Time