Staff Data Engineer

Claritas Rx is a venture-backed digital health startup that brings clarity to the challenges of specialty biopharmaceutical products in the marketplace. In today’s highly complex specialty networks, our mission is to illuminate the patient experience beyond the clinical trial. Claritas Rx leverages a proprietary technology platform and deep manufacturer expertise to automate and integrate channel, commercial, and clinical data and help biopharmaceutical companies generate actionable business insights. Our work uncovers the real-world variables impacting patient access, duration of therapy, and other metrics key to commercial success, making a real impact on patient healthcare.

We are a rapidly growing healthcare technology company seeking a Staff Data Engineer. Reporting to Director of Data Engineering, you will be responsible for delivering on many data engineering initiatives towards our Data Aggregation product roadmap.

As a Staff Engineer, you will own and drive multiple major workstreams by refining requirements, creating design documents, delivering rapid prototypes and POCs, tasking out detailed implementation plans and overseeing the implementation using a mix of onshore and offshore resources.  You will help give a weekly status on the workstream and help drive work forward by reviewing PRs, doing UAT that work was done as expected, and that it was deployed to production and operational.  You will help demo the completed workstream to the rest of the business and facilitate transitioning ownership of each service built to an operations support team with the help of metrics, dashboards, alarms and runbook documentation.

The workstreams are generally related to developing a secure, robust and scalable data pipeline with software components for ingesting, validating, mastering, transforming, analyzing, and reporting on complex health care data. The software transforms disparate data into actionable, meaningful insights for our customers. You will be a critical member of a product and engineering steam that is building a unique healthcare software solution.

• Designs, builds and oversees the deployment and operation of technology architecture, solutions and software to capture, manage, store and utilize structured and unstructured data from internal and external sources. 
• Be self-driven, organized and able to communicate work plans and progress effectively.
• Create detailed design documents with complexity that matches that of the workstream.
• Produce high-level, architecture, data-flow, sequence, process and other diagrams as appropriate to help other engineers, support and business stakeholders understand the systems that you propose to build.  Own and update them as features evolve.
• Lead offshore software engineers by tasking out & grooming work items in Jira, responding to questions & escalations during development, supporting UAT and deployments to Prod.
• Lead by example and provide hands-on support when other engineers get blocked.
• Personally take on the hardest, riskiest or most ambitious tasks that can’t be effectively outsourced to other engineers.
• Assist in coordinating work dependencies between Data Platform and other teams.
• Identify and solve repetitive development friction areas by making improvements to the developer experience:  Scripts, IDE, Build, CI/CD, IaC, Process, Documentation, etc.
• Support other teams & coworkers by participating in other workstream design reviews, reviewing impactful Pull Requests or other changes.
• Participate in a team rotation to fill out an Operational Review for each 2 week sprint period by taking snapshots of system dashboards, investigating anomalies and identifying opportunities where our team can improve operational excellence. (Does not include wearing a pager or being on-call)
• Securely handle PHI and comply with policies that support HIPPA and SOC2.
• Strategically apply AI tooling to deliver work, and use AI services where it makes sense.
• Help drive a team culture of collective hard work toward our shared purpose, encourage engineering & operational excellence, constantly measure & emphasize the impact of our work and support occasional fun, social and learning events.
• Give tech talks and demos to other engineers to help continuing education & training.
• Be willing to pivot occasionally to support a high-stakes request from customer-facing teams.
• Participate in week-long quarterly planning and roadmap meetings in-person.
• (For many cities) Participate in local office gatherings 1x every 2 months for Town Hall.

Requirements:

• 5 years leading other software engineers
• Expertise in data architecture and business intelligence systems including ELT development, data transformation, data modeling, report design / development and BI dashboard design / development.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5 years of Python experience
• 5 years of Typescript experience
• 5 years of SQL experience including complex joins, query performance, triggers, views
• 5 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling, preferably CDK
• Deep expertise & certifications on AWS

Preferred:

• Experience with ETL tooling on AWS like PySpark, Lake Formation and Glue
• Familiarity with Golang
• Experience with Kinesis data streaming
• Experience working with visualization tools like Tableau
• Familiarity with HIPAA/SOC/HITRUST requirements

We are seeking to add new expertise and perspective to our strong team of experienced professionals.  We aspire to a culture of accelerated professional development through shared learning and collaboration; a respectful and fun work environment; and employee empowerment through the effective use of technology and tools.  

In addition to our great environment, we offer a competitive salary of $150,000-$170,000 and benefits package and the opportunity to make a significant impact on a first-in-industry digital health solution.  Please send a cover letter along with your resume when applying to the position of interest.  Claritas Rx embraces diversity, equality, and transparency.  We are committed to building a team that comprises a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and talents.  We believe the more inclusive we are, the better we are.

Join us and discover what is feels like to be part of an environment that rewards ingenuity, risk taking and smart work. It's time to fall in love with what you do!