Lead Data Engineer

At MCG, we lead the healthcare community to deliver patient-focused care. We have a mission-driven team of talented physicians and technical experts developing our evidence-based content and innovating our products to accelerate improvements in healthcare. If you are driven to enhance the US healthcare system, MCG is eager to have you join our team. We cultivate a work environment that nurtures personal and professional growth, and this is a thrilling time to become a part of our organization. With dynamic roles that offer meaningful impact, you'll be able to fully realize your potential. Plus, you'll enjoy world-class benefits and the security, stability, and resources of our parent company, Hearst, with over 100 years of experience.

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will be responsible for the data science team and support the development of state of the art machine learning solutions that enhance the efficiency of clinical documentation. As the Lead Data Engineer, you will own all Data Engineering aspects crucial to supporting the data science team. This will includes designing and implementation of a comprehensive system that incorporates scheduling and monitoring data pipelines, feature stores, artifact management and basic CI/CD functionality. In this role, collaboration with MCG's data platform team is key, as they provide essential infrastructure (data lake, storage, orchestration, compute) and data resources for your team's endeavors.

You will:

• Convert legacy pipelines and ad hoc jobs into organized, monitored, and sustainable Flyte pipelines
• Build and curate pipeline templates for common jobs
• Design and lead implementation of feature and label stores
• Manage and Lead Data Engineers (assign work, provide design direction, perform code reviews)
• Provide templates, documentation, and best practices for self-serve Data Engineering by data scientists and machine learning engineers
• Serve as the team's expert on CI/CD and artifact management

What We're Looking For:

• Expert SQL and Python knowledge
• Ability to write robust, clean, extensible code
• Extensive experience writing your own tests and designing clean data pipelines using an orchestrator
• Proficiency in data lakes and warehouses (reading, writing, basic schema and maintenance)
• Strong collaboration skills, incorporating and effectively incorporating feedback from stakeholders
• Technical leadership capabilities, setting best practices and providing constructive feedback
• Proficient with containerization and Docker
• Reasonable knowledge of CI/CD best practices
• Experience with Go
• Experience using Kubernetes as a developer (deploying to K8s, no managing a cluster)

Do you meet most of our requirements but not all of them? No problem! We encourage you to apply anyways.

Anticipated Pay Range: $147,500 – $206,500

Other compensation: Bonus Eligible

Perks & Benefits:

Remote work

Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance

401K retirement plan; flexible spending and health savings account

️ 15 days of paid time off +up to 10 additional front-loaded personal days

️ 14 company-recognized holidays + paid volunteer days

8 weeks of paid parental leave + 10 weeks of paid bonding leave

️‍ LGBTQ+ Health Services

Pet insurance

Check out more of our benefits here: https://www.mcg.com/about/careers/benefits/

We embrace diversity and equal opportunity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Only with diverse thoughts and ideas will we be able to create the change we want in healthcare. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be for it.

MCG Health is a Seattle, Washington based company and is considering remote candidates.