At MVP Health Care, we’re on a mission to create a healthier future for everyone. That means embracing innovation, championing equity, and continuously improving how we serve our communities. Our team is powered by people who are curious, humble, and committed to making a difference—every interaction, every day. We’ve been putting people first for over 40 years, offering high-quality health plans across New York and Vermont and partnering with forward-thinking organizations to deliver more personalized, equitable, and accessible care. As a not-for-profit, we invest in what matters most: our customers, our communities, and our team.
Growth opportunities to uplevel your career
A people-centric culture embracing and celebrating diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences within our team
Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits focused on well-being
An opportunity to shape the future of health care by joining a team recognized as a Best Place to Work For in the NY Capital District , one of the Best Companies to Work For in New York , and an Inclusive Workplace .
You’ll contribute to our humble pursuit of excellence by bringing curiosity to spark innovation, humility to collaborate as a team, and a deep commitment to being the difference for our customers. Your role will reflect our shared goal of enhancing health care delivery and building healthier, more vibrant communities.
The Data Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and security of data systems hosted in on premise and cloud environments. Your expertise will contribute to the success of data-driven initiatives by validating data pipelines, identifying defects, and ensuring compliance with business requirements implements, and maintains an automation framework around improving data quality and increasing delivery throughput. This role includes collaboration with both technical and business teams to evaluate requirements and provide guidance to solutions that are scalable and maintainable.
This role requires the ability to share technical expertise and solutioning to users throughout the organization, mentor other members of the data engineering team, stay current with emerging trends, and to document processes and solutions to facilitate knowledge transfer and the building of team bench strength.
Validate a variety of data movement and delivery artifacts within the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) and data streaming spaces, including collaboration on performance and stabilization of said processes. Create and maintain supporting documentation and guiderails around data quality in collaboration with enterprise data governance needs. Document data engineering workflows, data models, and ensure alignment with data engineering best practices.
The Data Engineer interfaces with Senior Data Engineers. analysts, business customers (internal or external) to gather and define requirements for solutions. Learns data resources and knows when, how, and which to use and which not to use. Continually improves ongoing team processes, automating where needed, and providing self-service solutions when applicable. Documents mission critical enterprise ETL tasks. Presents complex information in an understandable manner. Develops, modifies, or proposes datasets necessary to meet reporting and analytics needs. Performs other duties as assigned.
Position Qualifications
Minimum Education
Technical degree (Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, or equivalent level of experience) required; advanced degree (MS) a plus. Certification as Microsoft Product Specialist in SQL Server desired but not required.
Minimum Experience
Minimum 3 years’ experience with direct data analysis and data management, preferable in a health care environment.
3+ years’ relevant experience in data warehousing techniques and technology, or experience in data vaults (raw and business), medallion architecture, and /or comparable analytics solutions.
1-3 years’ experience using Azure Databricks
Additional experience using data engineering/reporting tools like (SSRS, SSAS, SSMS, SSIS, Tableau, Power BI, Informatica) preferred
1-3 years’ experience with at least one programming language (preferably MS SQL, Python)
Experience in data mining, ETL, etc. and using databases in business environment with medium scale, complex datasets.
Advanced knowledge with OLAP.
Experience in developing dashboards and scorecards.
Required Skills
Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail.
Advanced ability to understand business drivers.
Capacity to develop procedures that support task management, data structure, dependence and metadata.
Advanced ability to recognize innovative solutions.
Experienced in a variety of analysis techniques to define problem/ opportunity and to discover unstated requirements.
Advanced ability to challenge status quo by looking for a better way to solve a problem with the ability to influence others in this regard.
Dimensional, star schema modeling skills.
Top notch communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills to convey key insights from complex analysis in summarized business terms and an ability to effectively communicate with business unit representation and analysts.
Exceptional customer focus with advanced ability to build relationships with business and technical partners to improve customer service and continuously improve project delivery.
Highly self- motivated and directed, can direct others. Experience working in team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Advanced organization, planning and time management skills.
Preferred Skills:
Knowledge of healthcare claims processing systems (Facets system knowledge preferred).
Knowledge of health care and health care delivery systems.
Medical Terminology knowledge, highly preferred.
Understanding of automation and scripting frameworks
Experience with Cloud Based Data Solutions such as Azure Data Lakes and Azure Data Bricks platform.
Pay Transparency
MVP Health Care is committed to providing competitive employee compensation and benefits packages. The base pay range provided for this role reflects our good faith compensation estimate at the time of posting. MVP adheres to pay transparency nondiscrimination principles. Specific employment offers and associated compensation will be extended individually based on several factors, including but not limited to geographic location; relevant experience, education, and training; and the nature of and demand for the role.
We do not request current or historical salary information from candidates.
$93,667.00-$124,576.75
MVP's Inclusion Statement
At MVP Health Care, we believe creating healthier communities begins with nurturing a healthy workplace. As an organization, we strive to create space for individuals from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life to have a voice and thrive. Our shared curiosity and connectedness make us stronger, and our unique perspectives are catalysts for creativity and collaboration.
MVP is an equal opportunity employer and recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes without discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, family responsibilities, familial status, physical or mental disability, handicapping condition, medical condition, pregnancy status, predisposing genetic characteristics or information, domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, military or veteran status, Vietnam-era or special disabled Veteran or other legally protected classifications.
To support a safe, drug-free workplace, pre-employment criminal background checks and drug testing are part of our hiring process. If you require accommodations during the application process due to a disability, please contact our Talent team at [email protected] .
