Associate Software Engineer Jobs in Franklin, TN

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Senior Software Engineer today with HCA Healthcare.

HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
  

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Come join our team as a Senior Software Engineer. We care for our community! Just last year, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues donated $13.8 million dollars to charitable organizations. Apply Today!

Position Summary

This position is responsible for developing, testing, and deploying innovative technology and data products within the ITG Accelerated Technologies organization and DT&I. They will help us build platforms and services that enable our physicians and clinicians to provide world-class care for patients in our hospitals. Along with technical expertise, a candidate for this position should be comfortable designing and reasoning about complex distributed systems and working with AI for software development.

Major Responsibilities:

This engineer can quickly learn, maintain and pragmatically improve existing solutions as well as design new ones. They will provide key problem resolutions for production systems as needed. They have an in depth understanding of the services provided by ITG Accelerated Technologies and DT&I and can develop relationships throughout the organization to assist in accomplishing its goals for the company. This engineer strategically designs, constructs, and implements software in a software development environment. This engineer is a highly motivated self-starter and is committed to delivering high quality solutions within agreed upon timelines. They are committed to engineering excellence and comfortable working in a fast paced complex environment. Strong application development skills are required using ReactJS, TypeScript, and Python. GCP experience is preferred. Experience with AI assisted tooling such as GitHub Copilot, Lovable.dev, v0.dev, bolt.new, or other Vibe Coding tools is required. Experience with healthcare data and technology is preferred.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build life-changing healthcare technology

• Act as a technical expert within AT and project Integrations, including requirements gathering, design, development, and testing

• Provide valuable insights in requirements validation and feasibility analysis with respect to AT

• Design scalable distributed software

• Clearly communicate software architecture in accordance with C4 model

• Estimate work effort required in delivering features keeping AT capabilities in mind

• Produce high quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates coding best practices and serves as an example for less experienced developers

• Design and execute DevOps strategies and processes, driving the change management which accompanies these types of transformative solutions

• Design, build and maintain automated deployment frameworks (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery)

• Escalate product issues and risks appropriately and collaborates on solutions

• Possess deep knowledge and extensive experience in software design patterns.

• Produce and review enterprise-level system design documentation, including: Use Cases, Software Architecture Documentation, Service Mapping (i.e., map service schema to backend source systems), Consumer Guide (i.e., end user documentation), and transition documentation to support the team.

• Create Service Level Agreements (states the agreed upon availability-uptime/downtime, maintenance windows, etc. for a Service) and Supplementary Specifications (i.e., non-functional specifications). Ensure implementations are up to current standards for coding, naming, security, and versioning.

• Consult on and guide design of software solutions

• Possess deep knowledge and experience with a variety of testing methodologies and drives the adoption of best practices

• Possess excellent communication skills to interface with various stakeholders from business consumer to technical staff.

• Research and become the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the interaction of the Service with source systems as well as interaction with the consumers (business users).

• Lead troubleshooting activities

• Provide after hours/on-call support as needed

• Mentor other engineers

• Direct the performance of programming assignments within the department

• Develop software development standards and frameworks

• Work with Enterprise Architects on Technology Evaluation / Product Selection

• Partner with managers in Contract Negotiation / Vendor Relations

• Interview / Hiring / Performance Evaluation

• Perform other duties as assigned

Practice and adhere to the “Code of Conduct” philosophy and “Mission and Value Statement.”

Education & Experience:

•  Bachelor Degree required

•  Masters Degree preferred

• Work Experience in lieu of Degree considered

5+ Years Relevant Work Experience Required

Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors:

• Technology Experience: 5+ years of experience in most of the following:

We are looking for experts in these areas. If you don’t have experience in some of these, you are able to work collaboratively on a cross-functional team that builds Data Science signal delivery, data pipeline, and DevOps infrastructure.

• Experience with cloud development technologies, especially Google Cloud Platform

• Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages especially Python and SQL required.

• Data engineering experience including architecture for ingesting, transforming, and feature engineering data elements used for data science and machine learning.

• Deep understanding of steaming and event driven architectures

• Strong understanding of best practices in the design of REST-based APIs

• Nuanced understanding of distributed version control

• Experience in data acquisition, data cleansing and parsing required.

• Detailed understanding of DevOps practices and extensive experience with associated tools.

• Extensive experience and deep understanding of container-based platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Cloud Run

• Extensive Experience with container monitoring applications such as monitoring solutions such as Cloud Monitoring, SysDig, Data Dog, AppDynamics, New Relic, Nagios, and Zabbix

• Understanding of data science concepts.

• SQL experience / database interrogation techniques

• Linux command line skills

• Scrum, Agile, Lean Product Development, Domain Driven Design

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Experience and deep knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

• Healthcare experience, preferable

Adaptability

• Treats change and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth.

• Focuses on the beneficial aspects of change and speaks positively about the change to others.

• Seeks to understand changes in work tasks, situations, and environment as well as the logic or basis for change.

• Demonstrates the ability to help others adapt to change and to personally adapt to various work environments.

Strategic Working Relationship:

• Builds relationships within the department and across multi-disciplinary teams to assist in facilitating discussions regarding data outputs and feedback on usage activities to improve AT impact.

Adaptability - Expected Level of Competency

• Ability to network with corporate and field contacts.

• Frequent inter-departmental contact and presentations.

• Independently works with customers on a 1:1 basis, as well as in teams.

Working Standards

• Continues to refine development and analytical skills.

• Applies a consistent development approach to provide creative solutions to problems.

• Leads the design, construction and implementation of software and analytics solutions in the data science engineering environment.

• Expands the organizational technical knowledge by providing mentoring to internal team and attending professional development opportunities.

Freedom to Act/ Independent Judgment

• Works independently with receiving minimal guidance. Acts as a team lead for multi-disciplinary projects.

• Acts as a mentor and provides direction to colleagues with less experience.

• Work is evaluated to ensure objectives are met.

• Exercises judgement in selecting and adapting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

• Contributes to designing standard practices and procedures required

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Senior Software Engineer opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.