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HEALTH CARE INFORMATICS DATA ENGINEERDivision of TennCareFiscalNashville, TNSalary: Minimum Monthly Salary $9,617/month TennCare compensation is equitable and will be based on education and experience for a qualified candidate in accordance with Department of Human Resources (DOHR) policy.Closing Date: 05/20/2024
The Division of TennCare is dedicated to providing our employees with a hybrid work environment. All TennCare positions have a combination of work from home and work in the office, which varies by position, department, and business need. You may review the specific expectations with our hiring team.
This position requires a background check. Therefore, you may be required to provide information about your criminal history in order to be considered for this position.
Who we are and what we do:
TennCare is Tennessee's managed care Medicaid program that provides health insurance coverage to certain groups of low-income individuals such as pregnant women, children, caretaker relatives of young children, older adults, and adults with physical disabilities. TennCare provides coverage for approximately 1.7 million Tennesseans and operates with an annual budget of approximately $14 billion. It is run by the Division of TennCare with oversight and some funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
TennCare's mission is to improve the lives of Tennesseans by providing high-quality cost-effective care. To fulfill that purpose, we equip each employee for active participation and empower teams to communicate and worked collaboratively to improve organizational processes in order to make a difference in the lives our members. Because of the positive impact TennCare has on the lives of the most vulnerable Tennesseans, TennCare employees report that their work provides them with a sense of meaning, purpose, and accomplishment. TennCare leadership understands that employees are our most valuable resource and ensures professional and leadership development are a priority for the agency.
Job Overview:
The Health Care Data Engineer's responsibilities will include extracting, validating, analyzing, and reporting by utilizing complex queries in SQL, SAS, Tableau, PowerBI, and other tools to develop reports and conduct stakeholder analyses.
This position will support an analytics-driven vision for maximizing TennCare's data holdings, providing technical solutions to solve high-priority challenges that identify patterns and trends, and presenting and explaining findings to lay and expert stakeholders. The Engineer will support existing legacy ETL processes and be involved in the agency's re-platforming initiative to ingest and organize multiple source systems and centralize them in the enterprise data warehouse. This position helps evaluate the quality testing of the technical work of contractors in developing new data warehouses and data marts. The incumbent will work with analysts and other stakeholders to create and update data products and provide technical support to the agency's data governance and quality initiatives.
The Health Care Data Engineer will support stakeholders by helping address and solve high-priority challenges and explaining findings to stakeholders. The Health Care Data Engineer will also work with HCI leadership to mainstream advanced analytic tools and techniques through mentorship and training across our team of analysts.
Key Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, analytics, biostatistics/statistics, epidemiology, or health services research with a minimum of five years of work experience as a data engineer or in a closely related role OR a master's degree in the same fields with a minimum of two years of work experience in data engineering.
Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.