Analytics Software Engineer IV (Remote)

Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change.

At Availity, we're not just another Healthcare Technology company; we're pioneers reshaping the future of healthcare! With our headquarters in vibrant Jacksonville, FL, and an exciting office in Bangalore, India, along with an exceptional remote workforce across the United States, we're a global team united by a powerful mission.
We're on a mission to bring the focus back to what truly matters – patient care. As the leading healthcare engagement platform, we're the heartbeat of an industry that impacts millions. With over 2 million providers connected to health plans, and processing over 13 billion transactions annually, our influence is continually expanding.
Join our energetic, dynamic, and forward-thinking team where your ideas are celebrated, innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts. We're transforming the healthcare landscape, solving communication challenges, and creating connections that empower the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem.

The Analytic Software Engineer IV is a senior technical role in our payment accuracy analytics team, focus on developing solutions to leverage big data to derive business-ready insights.  The analytic software engineer’s primary role is to design and implement cloud-based data pipelines and analytic solutions for reporting and dashboards. The individual will establish technology standards and promote software development best practices in the areas of data curation, analysis, and visualization.  The individual will also liaise with business and technical leaders to deliver scalable, fault-tolerant, effective, and high-quality analytic solutions.

Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Location: Remote, US

Role qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably Computer Science, Engineering, or other quantitative fields)
• 7+ years of related experience in designing and implementing production-grade data analytic solutions in Scala, Python, and PySpark.
• 5+ years of experience working with large-scale data and developing SQL queries to extract insights (100 gigs or more).
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with data analytic cloud services, such as AWS EMR, Airflow, and RedShift.
• 3+ years of leveraging statistical techniques to cross-examine multiple data sources to surface patterns and data abnormalities.
• Experience in leading data analysts and data engineers in marrying data analytics disciplines with software engineering best practices to deliver big data solutions, including modularized pipeline design for big-data solutions, statistically-sound test-driven development, etc.
• Demonstrated knowledge in software development best practices such as Git, linting, unit/integration testing.
• Able to plan work, set clear direction, and coordinate tasks across multi-disciplinary team in a fast-paced environment.
• Collaborative attitude. This role is part of a larger, more dynamic team that nurtures collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills including discussions of technical concepts, conducting peer-programming sessions, and explaining development concepts.
• Flexible and able to embrace change.

To differentiate yourself, you:

• 3+ years of experience working within Business Intelligence tools such as AWS Quicksight, Tableau, Cognos, Qlik, Pyramid.
• Experience in healthcare industry data such as X12, CPT/HCPCS, ICD-10.
• Experience in data architecture and cloud engineering.
• Experience working in an “Agile” and/or “Scrum” development environment using tools such as JIRA.
• Experience with operationalization and observability in a production environment.

What you will be doing:

• Design and implement scalable and resilient end-to-end data analytic pipelines.
• Translate complex analytical concepts into modularized software components to surface specific and actionable insights.
• Lead data analysts and data engineers to mature proof-of-concepts and harden them into data analytic solutions. 
• Automate manual reporting and analytic processes to improve efficiency and improve user experience using cloud-native technologies.
• Investigate healthcare data, including medical procedures, health conditions, and provider practices.
• Apply business acumen to enhance data quality and curation methodologies to ensure accurate and reliable inputs to analysis and predictive modeling.
• Identify data abnormalities and their root causes and suggest possible steps for mitigation.
• Write and maintain unit and integrations testing suites, QA, and UAT scenarios.
• Contribute to software maintenance and deployment practices, including production code repo. and CI/CD pipeline processes such as git actions and hooks, package and environment creation and maintenance, and updating or implementing infrastructure as code.
• Coach, mentor, and knowledge share for growth of the team and quality improvement. Work with data analysts and data scientists to apply industry standards and optimize analytic jobs.

Availity culture and benefits:

• Availity is a certified “Great Place to Work”, a “Best Workplaces for Technology Companies”, a “Best Workplaces for Women” and a “Best Workplaces for Millennials”!
• Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates. “AvaiLadies”, “Beyond Black”, “HOLA”, “Availity Pride”, “VetAvaility” a Young Professionals Group and “She Can Code IT” a group for women in tech are some of the groups you can get involved in.
• Availity is a culture of continuous learning. We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
• We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
• We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays. Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
• Interested in wellness? We allow our associates to reimburse up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• Interested in furthering your education? We offer education reimbursement!
• Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
• Want to work for an organization that gives back to the community? You’re at the right place! Availity partners with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.

Next steps:

After you apply, you will receive text/email messages thanking you for applying and then you will continue to receive more text/email messages alerting you as to where you are in the recruitment process.

Interview process:

• Recruiter resume review
• Recruiter video interview
• Manager resume review
• Manager video interview
• Technical assessment
• Team video interview

Availity is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions in employment matters without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

Availity is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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