Staff Data Engineer

Who We Are

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.

The Position

We are a rapidly growing healthcare technology company seeking a Staff Data Engineer. Reporting to the Director of Data Platform Engineering, you will be responsible for delivering on many data engineering initiatives towards our Data Aggregation product roadmap. Working with engineering leaders and your peers, you will be developing conceptual design, logical database, taxonomy, data storage and capacity planning, external data interface specification, data loading plan, data maintenance plan and security policy for Claritas Rx data pipeline. The role partners very closely with Product Management, Architects, technical leads, and lead/principal Software Engineer(s) from other teams. Our products generate actionable business and clinical insights for biotech and pharmaceutical companies. If you are passionate about revolutionizing healthcare through innovative health data platforms and want to significantly impact a fast-paced growth environment, we would love to hear from you!

Key Accountabilities

• Design and build a Streaming Transformation process to evolve an existing scheduled PySpark ETL batch transformation process.
• Reduce the time to ingest incoming data to where it shows up in our SaaS app & reports e2e, from hours to minutes or even seconds.
• Produce effective design documentation to help circulate design ideas & transition plans.  Break down approved designs into granular tasks.
• Lead the implementation and take on the most challenging or escalated tasks personally while delegating less strategic work to a mix of onshore and offshore team members.
• Meet regularly with technical and business stakeholders to communicate the plan, status, risks and delivery timeline estimates.
• Drive the go-live of the streaming transformation and establish observability & operational SOP process to hand off to other engineers.
• After go-live handle any escalated operational issues based on severity within a reasonable timeline and take on enhancement requests to harden the system and prevent future issues.
• Foster innovation by designing and building solutions that solve business problems and by partnering with cross functional stakeholders and at senior levels.
• Develop secure and high-quality production code. Review / debug code written by others.
• Actively oversee live operations of our SaaS offering, monitoring KPI’s to find opportunities and threats.
• Organize work around a cross-functional team of Product Managers, BAs, Engineers, BI Developers and Quality Engineers.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends, leveraging them to drive platform innovation.
• 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.

Who You Are

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

Join Us 

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.  

We are a highly collaborative team and prioritize opportunities to connect in person. For employees within a reasonable driving distance of each other, we host regional town hall gatherings approximately every other month. These sessions give our teams a chance to come together, share updates, and strengthen relationships beyond day-to-day work.

In addition to our great environment, we offer a competitive salary of $170,000-$190,000 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!

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