About the position
Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our team to ensure that we continue to provide all patients with high quality, efficient care. This engineer delivers on development commitments from start to finish for all aspects of the Data Products and Engineering organization within ITG Accelerated Technologies, and Digital Transformation and Innovation (DT&I). This engineer has a deep understanding of the tools in use as well as industry alternatives. This engineer embodies the principles of DevOps and advocates successfully for continuous improvement of software development and delivery practices. This technically focused position is responsible for consulting on design and development of data engineering work to source data and perform feature engineering of data elements used for data science and machine learning applications.
Responsibilities
- Build life-changing healthcare technology
- Act as a technical expert within AT and project Integrations, including requirements gathering, design, development, and testing
- Provide valuable insights in requirements validation and feasibility analysis with respect to AT
- Design scalable distributed software
- Clearly communicate software architecture in accordance with C4 model
- Estimate work effort required in delivering features keeping AT capabilities in mind
- Produce high quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates coding best practices and serves as an example for less experienced developers
- Design and execute DevOps strategies and processes, driving the change management which accompanies these types of transformative solutions
- Design, build and maintain automated deployment frameworks (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery)
- Escalate product issues and risks appropriately and collaborates on solutions
- Possess deep knowledge and extensive experience in software design patterns
- Produce and review enterprise-level system design documentation, including: Use Cases, Software Architecture Documentation, Service Mapping, Consumer Guide, and transition documentation to support the team
- Create Service Level Agreements and Supplementary Specifications
- Consult on and guide design of software solutions
- Possess deep knowledge and experience with a variety of testing methodologies and drives the adoption of best practices
- Possess excellent communication skills to interface with various stakeholders from business consumer to technical staff
- Research and become the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the interaction of the Service with source systems as well as interaction with the consumers
- Lead troubleshooting activities
- Provide after hours/on-call support as needed
- Mentor other engineers
- Direct the performance of programming assignments within the department
- Develop software development standards and frameworks
- Work with Enterprise Architects on Technology Evaluation / Product Selection
- Partner with managers in Contract Negotiation / Vendor Relations
- Interview / Hiring / Performance Evaluation
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Practice and adhere to the 'Code of Conduct' philosophy and 'Mission and Value Statement.'
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- Master's degree preferred
- 5+ years relevant work experience required, or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
- 5+ years of experience in most of the following: cloud development technologies, especially Google Cloud Platform
- Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages especially Python and SQL required
- Data engineering experience including architecture for ingesting, transforming, and feature engineering data elements used for data science and machine learning
- Deep understanding of streaming and event driven architectures
- Strong understanding of best practices in the design of REST-based APIs
- Nuanced understanding of distributed version control
- Experience in data acquisition, data cleansing and parsing required
- Detailed understanding of DevOps practices and extensive experience with associated tools
- Extensive experience and deep understanding of container-based platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Cloud Run
- Extensive Experience with container monitoring applications such as Cloud Monitoring, SysDig, Data Dog, AppDynamics, New Relic, Nagios, and Zabbix
- Experience with Copilot and Lovable AI software preferred
- Understanding of data science concepts
- SQL experience / database interrogation techniques
- Linux command line skills
- Scrum, Agile, Lean Product Development, Domain Driven Design
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience and deep knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Healthcare experience, preferable
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay
- Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more
- Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
- 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
- Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance
- Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
- Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
- Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
- Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
- Colleague recognition program
- Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
- Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income
