Senior Data Engineer

at  Signify Health Ireland

Join us at the start of a new era in health care where technology is transforming how and where care is delivered, creating a more connected, effective care experience for all. Our mission at Signify Health is to build trusted relationships to make people healthier. We do this by transforming the home into a health hub through a combination of data, technology & people. We are building a unified technology platform for value-based care that is improving care and reducing spending by treating patients in lower-cost settings and linking providers’ payments to patient outcomes. Signify Health is driving this industry transformation and solving some of the most challenging problems in healthcare – this is where you come in!
Signify Health Ireland is a green field, Galway-based R&D technology center looking for tech savvy individuals interested in embarking on a career that combines your passion for solving complex technology problems with purpose. Careers at Signify Health offer the opportunity to apply your technology and problem-solving skills toward a mission that benefits others and makes life-changing positive impacts on the members we serve every single day. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people who are ready to move the needle and build on our success.
Our strength lies in the diversity of our people - combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture and provide opportunities for growing, learning and leading, empowering our teams to come as they are and deliver their best work.
As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide a new state of the art flexible work environment in our Galway facility at Bonham Quay to support those objectives. Careers with Signify Health Ireland offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to divide their time between our Galway office and their home office.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As Senior Data Software Engineer of the new Enterprise Data Interoperability Team at Signify Health Ireland, you will help with the design, delivery & operation of data pipelines that will feed the next generation of Signify product offerings. Data is at the centre of the overall company strategy of seamlessly connecting with members in their homes and during inpatient visits. Where an in-home health evaluation results in a referral to an appropriate primary care or specialist provider, the enterprise data interoperability team manages the effective orchestration of those transitions, as well as surfacing other health care needs that ensure that member remains healthy in their own home – thus creating a more connected, effective care experience for all

QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years’ experience in Software Development and
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Math, Engineering or related field
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, async programming patterns, object-oriented design, parallel programming ) and big data design (data lake, data mesh, data warehouse) and data normalisation patterns
• Extensive experience of SQL (e.g. Postgres, SQL server), no-SQL ( e.g. Cassandra, CosmoDB) databases, data warehouse (Snowflake) and DBT technology
• Data Orchestration experience using Dragster, Apache AirFlow or similar
• Hands on experience with a number of general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, Python, Scala, C#, .NET, Javascript, DBT
• Extensive prior work with cloud-based systems, Azure experience preferred in Azure big data technologies (Databricks, DataFactory)
• Strong ability to review, and evaluate code and database schema design
• Experience with live site operations for large scale business critical services, DORA metrics etc.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and coach others - you can explain your work, you can ask good questions, you listen to your peers and your customers, and you like to give and receive feedback.
• Clear and effective communications, be it when you provide feedback to your team, review technical design or code artifacts or explain complex technical issues to technical and non-technical colleagues across the business.

• Coach and develop technical teams of engineers across all levels through fostering curiosity and exploration, knowledge-sharing, and leveraging the skills of others
• Help drive long-term architecture and detailed design for a highly scalable data pipelines that leverage big-data through a variety of patterns.
• Drive long-term design thinking for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenants
• Deliver value through a strong collaborative approach spanning diverse and remote team
• Drive impact by identifying and delivering both internally and externally.
• Help continue to develop and improve our “best-in-class” engineering processes by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, reusable, diagnosable, and actively monitored.
• Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving.
• Be a strong partner to your product & application development counterparts as well as other parts of the business
• As part of Signify Health Ireland, work in partnership with the site lead and technology leadership to establish and model a culture of learning, growth & innovation across the site as well as support your team’s participation in community engagement activities etc.