Lead Data Engineer - Technology Specialist I - Digital and Technology Partners - Remote

Lead Data Engineer - Technology Specialist I - Digital and Technology Partners -  Remote - Req#3020902

Acts as the principal technology expert for major systems and their subsystems utilizing a thorough understanding of available technology, tools and existing designs.

The Enterprise Data Services team strives to advance an insight-driven culture across Mount Sinai Health System through the development of modern, user-friendly and timely data and analytics products and services. As a Lead Data Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and developing robust ETL pipelines to integrate diverse data sources. This role requires expertise in creating efficient data pipelines and ensuring data integrity in Oracle and Azure data platforms. The lead will be responsible for developing standards to optimize and monitor ETL jobs for performance, efficiency, and stability; the lead will also mentor other data engineers on the team.  

The ideal candidate enjoys engaging with non-technical stakeholders to solve complex business needs; this lead role will be working with both on-shore and off-shore team members on a diversity of tasks and constantly learning new technologies. 
 

• Provides comprehensive consultation to business unit and IT management and staff at the highest technical level on all phases of the project development cycle. 
• Works closely with client management to identify and specify the complex business requirements and processes for diverse development platforms.  
• Performs analysis and system design.  May code new or modified programs, reuse existing code through the use of program development software alternatives and/or integrates purchased solutions. 
• Documents, tests, implements and provides on-going support for the applications. 
• Provides highly technical consulting and leadership in identifying and implementing new uses of information technologies that assist the functional business units in meeting their strategic objectives. 
• Acts as expert technical resource to development staff in all phases of the development and implementation process. 
• Performs related duties as assigned or requested.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Masters degree preferred.
• Eight years of diverse work experience in IT with a minimum of six years experience in systems analysis and application program development, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Strongly preferred skills:

• Some management or lead experience. 
• In depth knowledge of the Azure cloud platform including Azure Data Factory and Databricks. Must also be comfortable working in Oracle. 
• Proficiency in programming languages (SQL and Python). 
• Knowledge of data warehousing data modeling and best practices as well as DevOps practices and tools (Git). 
• Experience with implementing data governance and security measures in a cloud environment. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

General Skills & Competencies:

• Requires an In-depth knowledge of the system development life cycle, the client area’s functions and systems, and data development and data applications program development.
• Must be competent to work at the highest technical level of all phases of system design and implementation.  
• Requires excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment and management skills, and the ability to work effectively with client and IT management and staff.

Compensation Statement

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for this role is $109,000.00 - $163,695.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

Non-Bargaining Unit, 223 - DTP Enterprise Data & Analytics - MSH, Mount Sinai Hospital

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.  We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

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