Database Engineer

Summary

Join Nextech, a leader in specialty healthcare technology solutions, as a Database Engineer. You will design, develop, and support the implementation of our next-generation Data Platform, interacting with all software products and serving as a liaison between our Healthcare and Data Platforms. This role requires collaboration with various teams to translate reporting and analytics requirements into data fulfillment strategies. You will oversee data pipeline design and maintenance, contributing to platform architecture enhancements. Nextech offers competitive pay, a generous bonus structure, great healthcare, a comprehensive wellness program, and many other benefits.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years of industry experience as a Data Engineer
• Experience in Microsoft technologies and Azure cloud services including Azure SQL, Azure DataBricks or Spark on Azure, Microsoft Purview, Azure Data Lake Storage or One Lake, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric
• Experience with data warehousing, operational data stores, large-scale implementations and ETL/ELT/data streaming processing.  Azure Data Factory is preferred
• Experience with GitHub and CI/CD practices such as Azure DevOps
• Strong working knowledge of data security practices
• A solid foundation in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms, data modeling, data pipeline processes, data integration patterns and software design
• Proficiency in Python scripting related to data analysis
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and monitor highly scalable processes to ingest and process high-volume data change sets while ensuring high performance and quality
• Collaborate with various teams to translate reporting and analytics requirements into a data fulfillment strategy including building data pipelines, data aggregations, infrastructure and tooling to support business initiatives
• Oversee the design and maintenance of data pipelines and contribute to the continual enhancement of our data platform architecture
• Work with development teams and product stakeholders to continuously explore new capabilities and technologies to drive innovation
• Collaborate with the team to meet performance, scalability, and reliability goals
• Write tests and documentation for processes and tooling
• Support data transformation testing and production implementation as required
• Participate in development team sprint planning and stand-up events
• Provide routine guidance to software development teams for best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent college degree
• Solid understanding of HIPAA privacy laws
• Microsoft MCSA 2016 or equivalent certification
• Experience working with a Software as a Service development team
• Experience developing solutions to manage data platforms at scale

Benefits

• Generous annual bonus opportunity
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Flexible Time Off: take time off when you need it without worrying about available hours
• 10 paid holidays + 1 floating holiday
• Volunteer Time Off
• Insurance: Choice of Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Health Savings Account with employer match
• Flexible Spending Account
• 100% Company-Paid Parental leave
• 100% Company-Paid Life Insurance and Short/Long Term Disability Insurance
• ICREATE Employee Recognition Program
• Wellness Program including discounts on medical premiums
• Employee Assistance Program with free counseling sessions available
• Corporate Discounts on Retail, Travel, and Entertainment
• Pet Insurance options