Data Engineer

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

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Job Description

Role : Data Engineer

Location : Minnesota

Rate : $70/hour W2

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

All team members must champion and model our values of partnership, curiosity, compassion, integrity, and excellence, and must contribute to a culture of continuous learning.

Work with stakeholders, data scientists and analysts to frame problems, clean and integrate data, and determine the best way to provision that data on demand

Collaborate with other developers to design technology solutions that achieve measurable results at scale

Build, design and develop scalable, efficient data pipeline processes to handle data ingestion, cleansing, transformation, integration, and validation required to provide access to prepared data sets for analysts and data scientists

Have experience in a cloud-first modern data architectural environment, and consistently leverage associated standards and best practices

Adhere to data governance standards to ensure that data modeling and data handling procedures are compliant with applicable laws and policies across data pipeline.

Perform root cause analysis in response to detected problems/anomalies to identify the reason for alerts and implement advanced solutions that prevent recurring points of failure.

Applies in-depth knowledge of the business to design a data model that is appropriate for the project and translates business requirements into design specification documents to model the flow and storage of data across multiple data pipelines.

Identifies multiple, complex data sources and builds advanced code to extract raw data from identified upstream sources using query languages, tools, or machine learning algorithms, while assuring accuracy, validity, and reliability of the data across the pipeline.

Formulate techniques for quality data collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy and legitimacy of data.

Perform unit tests and conduct reviews with other team members to make sure your code is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for performance

Participate in code reviews and champion the adoption of best practices

Applies in-depth knowledge of the business to design a data model that is appropriate for the project and translates business requirements into design specification documents to model the flow and storage of data across multiple data pipelines.

Data engineers perform other duties as required, to meet team sprint goals

REQUIRED SKILLS/Qualifications:

Healthcare Administration and Operations Data Domain background (Claims, Billing, etc.) required

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data or social science, operations research, statistics, applied mathematics, econometrics, or a related quantitative field AND 4+ years of experience in business analytics, data science, software development, data modeling and/or data engineering work OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Math, Software is acceptable

5+ years of programming experience with command in at least two languages: SQL, Python, Java, R or Spark

Expert proficiency in SQL; experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server

4+ years of experience in at least one of the BI/Analytics space such as Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Data Explorer, Cosmos, App Insights, Power BI, and Databricks (or similar) (Note: Azure Data Factory and Databricks preferred)

Experience using Git, or a comparable code repository

Must be motivated, self-driven, curious, and creative

Must be skilled communicator, and demonstrate an ability to work with end users and business leaders

Demonstrate the ability to support and complement the work of a diverse development and/or operations team

Experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional team; Active participation in sprint reviews

Expert Knowledge and a minimum of four years’ experience in the following domains: Data management, software engineering, I&O (infrastructure and operations)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge of health care operations

Exposure to agile/scrum

Interest and desire to contribute to emerging practices around DataOps (CI/CD, IaC, configuration management, etc.)

Collaborate effectively with product management, program management, engineers, and stakeholders.

Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills

Ability to influence without authority and thrive in an ambiguous environment.

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

401k + Matching

One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.

We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!

Ongoing Support & Networking

We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.

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