Life at Healthy Alliance

At Healthy Alliance, our purpose is to improve health and empower the underserved. Every community has its own needs, affecting the health of those who live, learn, work, and play within them. Our network brings together organizations, big and small, to coordinate and collaborate so that all communities have reliable access to the resources they need. Why? Because every New Yorker deserves the same opportunity to be healthy. 

Designated as the Social Care Network (SCN) Lead Entity for the Capital Region, Central NY, and North Country under New York’s 1115 Waiver Amendment’s SCN & Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) Program, we are responsible for ensuring that there is a seamless, consistent end-to-end process for HRSN screening, navigation, and the delivery of HRSN and other services to thousands of Medicaid Members. Transformative in nature, this novel Program will further sustain our mission of advancing health equity within and across historically marginalized communities.

As a 2019-2024 Albany Business Review’s Best Places to Work and a 2021-2024 Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Health Care award recipient, we strive to maintain a culture wherein high-performing, mission-driven team members collectively work toward better health for all. Dedicated to promoting a culture built upon autonomy, mastery, and purpose, we believe our differences in strengths and perspectives play an integral role in propelling us forward, while our core values ground us, serving as the common thread that unites our team.

Why You Should Join Healthy Alliance

We offer amenities, professional development opportunities, events, and programming that support the interests of our teams while expanding and enriching our culture. Some of the benefits you can expect when you join Healthy Alliance include:

• Competitive compensation package 
• Comprehensive insurance benefits available the 1st of the month after hire, including but not limited to medical, dental and      vision, group short-term disability and life insurance with buy-up options, flexible spending and HSA company-contributed accounts, and more
• 401K with a company match
• Unlimited paid time off after 90 days of employment
• Company-sponsored training and certification opportunities
• Remote employer with flexible work schedules
• A workplace that values safety, respect, employee engagement, recognition, and diversity
• Salary range: $101,000-$116,000 per year, commensurate with experience

Who You Are

The Data Engineer is responsible for ensuring that Healthy Alliance’s data is reliable, accessible, and effectively utilized by designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure and data pipelines necessary for efficient data storage, transformation, accessibility, flow, and integration.

What You’ll Do

· Design and implement scalable data pipelines to integrate and process data from diverse sources.

· Develop and optimize data warehouses and data lakes, ensuring efficient data flow and accessibility across the organization.

· Implement data quality frameworks and automated data validation processes to ensure data integrity and reliability.

· Develop and maintain robust error management practices, including error detection, logging, and resolution to ensure data accuracy and minimize data loss.

· Manage file exchange processes, ensuring secure and efficient transfer of data files between internal and external systems, including handling various file formats and protocols.

· Contribute to the adoption of modern data engineering practices, including real-time data processing and stream processing.

· Collaborate with Data Analysts to support the implementation of machine learning models.

· Implement data governance and security measures, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and other relevant regulations.

· Optimize query performance and data access patterns for data analytics and reporting systems.

· Design and implement data APIs and services to facilitate data integration across various applications and platforms.

· Evaluate and integrate new data technologies to enhance Healthy Alliance's data engineering capabilities.

· Contribute to the development of best practices and coding standards for the data engineering team and of data engineering initiatives that support Healthy Alliance's strategic goals and operational efficiency.

· Work with business stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective data solutions.

· Develop and maintain documentation for data architectures, models, and processes.

What You’ll Need
 

Education

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, data science, or a related field. Equivalent work experience in a related field may be considered in lieu of degree requirements.

Professional Work Experience

· Minimum of 6+ years of experience in data engineering with a track record of implementing effective data solutions.

· Experience in the health care or social care services industries is preferred.

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities

· Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with advanced database management systems.

· Solid experience with big data technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, or Hadoop ecosystem tools.

· Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java with experience in developing data processing applications.

· Experience with cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and their data services, including data lakes and data factories.

· Good understanding of data modeling techniques, including dimensional modeling.

· Experience in designing and implementing data streaming and processing solutions.

· Knowledge of data governance principles and data lineage tracking.

· Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).

· Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) is beneficial.

· Experience in designing data solutions that support analytics and machine learning workflows.

· Knowledge of health care data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR) and health care interoperability challenges.

· Demonstrated ability to optimize data pipelines for performance and efficiency.

· Experience in error management, including the detection, logging, and resolution of data errors.

· Experience in file exchange management, including secure data file transfers and handling of various file formats and protocols.

· Good communication skills, capable of explaining technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

· Embody Healthy Alliance’s vision, mission, and goals.

· Contribute to a positive work environment by demonstrating cultural expectations, rewarding performance, and valuing accountability, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, and creativity.

Your next career opportunity is at Healthy Alliance!

Physical Requirements

This position involves sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing, use of typical office equipment such as a computer, laptop, and cell phone. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Healthy Alliance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to hr@healthyalliance.org.

Privacy Requirement 

This job function involves potential access / interaction with protected health information. Position will be required to abide by company policies and procedures that support federal, state, and local HIPAA regulations. Any violations will be subject to company policy which includes disciplinary actions up to and including separation of employment. 

Healthy Alliance is an At-Will Employer.