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The healthcare industry is the next great frontier of opportunity for software development, and Health Catalyst is one of the most dynamic and influential companies in this space. We are working on solving national-level healthcare problems, and this is your chance to improve the lives of millions of people, including your family and friends. Health Catalyst is a fast-growing company that values smart, hardworking, and humble individuals. Each product team is a small, mission-critical team focused on developing innovative tools to support Catalyst’s mission to improve healthcare performance, cost, and quality. Health Catalyst is expanding and maintains a large suite of Improvement Apps that contribute to healthcare analytics and process improvement solutions. This includes products that manage the care of health system populations, better serve patients at the point of care, reduce health system costs, and reduce clinician workload. Job Summary: As a Data Engineer, you will be working with diverse Improvement Apps, software engineering team designing, developing, and maintaining various platforms that serve internal HCAT team members, clinicians, and patients. You will rely on Test-Driven Development to safely enhance and refactor our system, shipping production code multiple times per week. And you will go to bed each night with the comfort that your code is improving outcomes for patients. If you love… Help drive clarity and prototype individual features or problems Knowledge of architecture patterns and the ability to design and complete features / tasks that are 50-60% well defined. Can discern where gaps can be filled in without consulting a Product Manager or another programmer and can judge when a consultation is needed. Work is reviewed with the occasional need for material direction or implementation changes Seeks and provides guidance via PR reviews, pair-programming and other interactions with Engineers and Product Managers It is second nature to develop high code quality standards balanced with the needs of real-world customer timelines. Possesses a passion and drive to deliver exceptional products and follows established patterns and approaches within existing code bases with ease. Takes ownership of learning and growth Capitalizes on internal and external opportunities for learning. Identifies gaps in knowledge/skills and seeks ways to close those gaps (self-guided learning, pairing, seeking guidance for yourself and developing guidance for less experienced members of the team) Periodic On Call Rotation Ability to communicate with Customer Success about customer issues that are escalated to Engineering and help quantify customer impact. Can Respond quickly to operational emergencies, find short term resolutions and plan long term fixes to avoid similar issues in the future. What you own in the role: Interpreting data, analyzing results, using statistical techniques and providing ongoing reports relating to how patients engage with content. Contribute to the design and implementation of databases, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical analysis and data quality used in Health Catalyst’s ML/AI services. Acquiring data from primary or secondary data sources, extracting data sets from relational databases, and maintaining databases/data systems that can be incorporated into our data products. Filtering and “cleaning” data by reviewing reports and performance indicators to locate and correct code problems. Working with management to prioritize business and information needs. Locating and defining new process improvement opportunities. What you bring to this role: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience preferred. Strong working knowledge of C#/ Angular / Microservices/ DS&A Strong working knowledge of CI/CD Strong knowledge of and experience with cloud (azure) Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy, in a timely manner Adept at constructing efficient queries, writing reports and presenting findings Ability to manage multiple and simultaneous responsibilities and to prioritize scheduling of work Strong verbal and written communication skills 7+ years work experience as a app developer BS or MS in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management, or a similar field An understanding of healthcare data is a plus, but not a requirement You may also bring: Experience with cloud infrastructure and architecture patterns, either Azure or AWS preferred. Software development experience within healthcare IT and understands key data models (clinical, claims, financial, etc.) and interoperability standards such as HL7v2, CDA, EMR, and FHIR Knowledge of healthcare compliance and how it applies to Application Security Agile/Scrum software development practices Business Intelligence or Data warehousing experience Preferred Experience and Education: BS/BA or MS in Computer science, information systems, or other technology/science degree. A minimum of 5 years of experience in building commercial software, SaaS, or digital platforms.