Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Medix Technology is seeking an AWS Data Engineer with Healthcare or Pharmacy expertise for a full-time employment opportunity. The role involves building, scaling, and maintaining data pipelines within a cloud-native environment using AWS services to support the company's data-driven approach to improving patient access to medications.

Responsibilities

• Working in a team environment to design, implement, and support the scalability of cloud-native data solutions—including data lakes and warehouses
• Working within an AWS environment, and with AWS services like Redshift, Aurora, S3, Lambda, and Airflow
• Building, automating and maintaining robust ETL pipelines using AWS Glue, Lambda, and Step Functions to ingest and process complex healthcare / pharmacy datasets
• Working in a DataOps environment to optimize the performance of data pipeline
• Maintaining data governance. Enforcing strict data security protocols, access controls, and compliance frameworks to safeguard sensitive healthcare information
• Monitoring, troubleshooting and fine-tuning data streams and storage architectures to maximize speed, minimize costs, and enhance query efficiency via strategic partitioning and caching
• Providing application and database support, writing and optimizing clean Python code, advanced SQL queries, and complex stored procedures to support internal data applications
• Partnering closely with product and analytics teams to translate business requirements into highly functional, scalable data models

Skills

• 8-10+ years professional experience as a Data Engineer
• Deep expertise in AWS cloud-native ecosystems, specifically utilizing Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift, Aurora, and RDS PostgreSQL
• Certification as an AWS Certified Data Engineer
• Expert-level proficiency in Python and SQL, including views, triggers, stored procedures, and database optimization
• Must be permanently authorized to work in the US (Visa sponsorship not offered)
• Direct, hands-on experience working with Healthcare Claims, Pharmacy / Rx Claims is highly preferred, and will be given preference

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