Data Engineer

Why Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is top-ranked in more specialties than any other care provider according to U.S. News & World Report. As we work together to put the needs of the patient first, we are also dedicated to our employees, investing in competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans – to take care of you and your family, now and in the future. And with continuing education and advancement opportunities at every turn, you can build a long, successful career with Mayo Clinic.

Benefits Highlights

• Medical: Multiple plan options.
• Dental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
• Vision: Affordable plan with national network.
• Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
• Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.

Responsibilities

A Data Engineer gains access to data across the organization and provides ongoing analysis by monitoring, profiling, and analyzing databases. This role requires a mix of functional, data, and technical skills. The right candidate must be able to understand business requirements, translate them into information needs, and implement those requirements using available data. The hire will be responsible for expanding and optimizing data architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems. The Data Engineer will support our software developers, database architects, and data analysts and data scientists on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects.

Core Job Duties Include

• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements. Strong knowledge of SQL required. Ability to identify sets and subsets of information across multiple joins or unions of tables is preferred in addition to writing and troubleshooting SQL queries for data mining.
• Perform complex data analysis and investigation for customer requests to explain results and to make appropriate recommendations. Strong understanding of data modeling concepts.
• Problem solver with the initiative to think critically to identify improvement opportunities (error detection, error correction, root cause analysis).
• Understand ETL that will aid in verification and testing of data.
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management. A successful history of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.
• Analyze business objectives and develop data solutions to meet customer needs. Demonstrated ability to effectively participate in multiple, concurrent projects.
• Improve and customize current data solutions to meet business functional and non-functional requirements.
• Research new and existing data sources in order to contribute to new development, improve data management processes, and make recommendations for data quality initiatives.
• Perform periodic data quality reviews for internal and external data. Ensure timely resolution of queries and data issues.
• Look for new ways to find and collect data by researching potential new sources of information.
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field from an accredited University or College; OR an Associate’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field from an accredited University or College with 2 years of experience. Demonstrated ability to analyze and profile data as a means to address various business problems through leveraging advanced data modeling, source system databases, or data mining techniques, is required. May provide consultative services to departments/divisions and committees. Demonstrated application of several problem-solving methodologies, planning techniques, continuous improvement methods, and analytical tools and methodologies (e.g. data analysis, data profiling, modeling, etc.) required. Incumbent must have ability to manage a varied workload of projects with multiple priorities and stay current on healthcare trends and enterprise changes. Interpersonal skills and time management skills are required. Requires strong analytical skills and the ability to identify and recommend solutions, advanced computer application skills and a commitment to customer service. Experience with data analysis, quality, and profiling; including data exploration tools including but not limited to Rapid SQL, AQT, Information Analyzer, and Informatics.

Key skills/competency

• SQL
• Data Modeling
• ETL Processes
• Data Analysis
• Data Architecture
• Data Quality
• Data Pipeline
• Problem-Solving
• Data Wrangling
• Database Management