Associate Data Engineer

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

athenahealth is a progressive, innovation-driven software product company. We partner with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We maintain a unique values-driven employee culture and offer a flexible work-life balance. As evidence of our rapid growth and industry leadership, we were acquired by the world’s leading private equity firm “Bain Capital” in 2021 for $17bn! and we have many new strategic product initiatives 

Member of Technical Staff, Datalake

Do you have a passion for things related to big data – ingestion, transformation, validation, quality, etc.? Do you believe that accurate and timely data delivery is critical to patient health outcomes? If so, here's your chance to join the Datalake team at athenahealth. This team will be responsible for providing big data platform to Athena helping other teams to succeed.
 

Position Summary: We are looking for a “Member of Technical Staff” to join this well-established team. You will collaborate with talented engineers who are transforming healthcare data into actionable insights that empower clinicians, researchers, and administrators, to deliver better care. 
 

The Team: The Datalake team is responsible for building out efficient and resilient data pipelines for ingesting bulk data from various data sources to unlock the value of athena’s offerings and building out athena’s next generation workflows. The team will be focused on highly scalable data technologies in the cloud to enable the delivery of insights and drive actions across multiple sets of users, including, Analysts and Data science. 

The ideal candidate would be a motivated software engineer who has a passion for data and is willing to work collaboratively across teams and organizations. If you are working with data at scale, and using Cloud based tech stacks, we strongly encourage you to apply. 
 

Responsibilities: 

• Design, develop, and deploy high-quality code to production in an Agile team of data engineers, in a collaborative and high-performing environment. 
• Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert, share business and technical insights with the team and broader engineering and product organization. 
• Collaborate inclusively with cross-functional team members to develop product solutions that ultimately help improve health outcomes for patients. 
• Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Collaborate effectively with data engineers, data scientists, analysts, software engineers, and business leaders to translate data needs into actionable solutions. 
• Troubleshoot production and non-production issues and support athenaOne customers. 
• Demonstrate ownership for what you and the team build and deploy in production.  
   

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent. 
• Minimum 2 to 4 years of commercial software engineering experience, dealing with data at scale. 
• Knowledge of one or more modern programming languages such as: Python, Perl, Java, and JavaScript. 
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux, SQL, NOSQL, and related tools and technologies. 
• Experience with delivering products that leverage one or more of AWS/Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud Provider
• Experience with delivering products that leverage one or more big data platform like Snowflake / Redshift / Big query 
• Knowledge of Agile SDLC practices; familiarity with unit and integration testing, as well as design and code reviews and documentation. 
• Ability to write code that is technically sound, resilient, performant, scalable, and readable. 
• Experience with DevOps principles, and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins along with git, bitbucket and other source code repositories. 
• Strong communication skills to work across geographies, and a record of engineering achievement, code ownership, and customer orientation. 
• Track record of designing and delivering cloud-based products, modules, and services. 
• Proven track record of implementing and adopting new technologies and methodologies. 
• Knowledge of healthcare and electronic health records is a plus. 

About athenahealth

Here’s our vision: To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.  

What’s unique about our locations? 
From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India — plus numerous remote employees — all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together. 
 
Our company culture might be our best feature. 
We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It’s our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.  

Our vibrant and talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing their best selves to work. 

Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out — but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability. 
 
Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.   

What can we do for you? 
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.  

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.  

We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.