
Epic Clinical Data Engineer Senior
- Grand Rapids, MI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develops, tests, and deploys ELT / ETL processes across multiple sources, targets and tools with no supervision.
- Provides support and recommendations to intermediary level engineers to enhance their technical skills. Collaborates with data consumers of varying skill levels on available data sources and potential biases within datasets.
- Provides operational and ad-hoc support for systems and applications troubleshooting and maintenance for incidents related to data warehouses, datasets and data pipelines.
- Participates in the design, development, and implementation of conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
- Adheres to the team’s application of best practices and organizational standards of the Software Development Lifecycle to ensure high quality and reliable data assets. Follows the organizational standards and laws governing use of sensitive data relating to Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
- Develops Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD) processes focused on acceleration of value delivery and minimizing manual touchpoints.
- Participates in enterprise-wide Agile ceremonies determining and recommending technical programming approaches and solutions to complex applications. Works independently or collaboratively to capture, document, and groom features and stories for planning and execution.
- Actively pursues opportunities to grow their business acumen and skills from more experienced team members. Provides coaching to less experienced team members. Actively participates in Data Engineering Community of Practice, develops standard processes for the department and helps roll them out.
- Actively participates in Data Engineering Community of Practice, develops standard processes for the department and helps roll them out.
- Actively participates in safety initiatives and risk mitigating measures where appropriate and completes all position and unit safety related competencies and requirements on a timely basis.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in computer science, application programming, software development, information systems, database administration, mathematics, engineering, or relevant experience in related field
- At least 5 years of relevant experience
- Epic Caboodle certification completed upon hire
- Experience working with Epic clinical data
- Experience modeling and transforming data in modern cloud platforms (Snowflake preferred)
- Proficient in Python for ETL/ELT development, testing, and automation
- Advanced SQL experience building data models and complex transformations
- Ability to document data workflows, communicate clearly across functions, and contribute to internal knowledge sharing
- Experience working alongside BI/analytics teams; understanding of how data models are used downstream in tools like Tableau
- Experience working in agile environments and managing deliverables via tools like JIRA
- Proficient in Git, GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, and collaboration workflows (feature branching, code reviews) (highly preferred)
- Comfortable working with diverse data formats (JSON, XML, Parquet, CSV) (highly preferred)
- Experience with RESTful APIs and integrating third-party data sources
- Exposure to streaming tools (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis) and interest in real-time data systems
- Deep experience working in AWS (S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda) and Snowflake; comfortable with orchestration tools like Airflow (Astronomer) and data ingestion tools like Fivetran