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Position Summary

This position is responsible for developing, testing, and deploying innovative technology and data products within the ITG Accelerated Technologies organization. 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.

 Major Responsibilities:

 As an engineer in ITG Accelerated Technologies, you will work closely with our data science, product, and innovation teams to provide the fundamental infrastructure for their success, creating life-changing technology in HCA Healthcare’s network of care. This position involves developing microservices, deploying applications using cloud infrastructure, and scaling solutions across hundreds of hospitals. As part of a software development team, you will be responsible for creating maintainable, high quality, well-tested code, both individually and collaboratively. A well-suited candidate for this position is a highly motivated self-starter and is committed to delivering high quality solutions within agreed upon timelines. This engineer can quickly learn and maintain existing solutions as well as new development. 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 can develop relationships throughout the organization to assist in accomplishing its goals for the company. Some key responsibilities:

• Build life-changing healthcare technology

• Design and develop scalable, dependable, maintainable 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

• Escalate product issues and risks appropriately and collaborates on solutions

• Lead troubleshooting activities

• Provide after hours/on-call support as needed

• Develop software development standards and frameworks

• Practices and adheres to the “Code of Conduct” philosophy and “Mission and Value Statement.”

Education & Experience:

Bachelor's degree required

Master's degree preferred

3+ years of experience in a software development role required

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors:

• Experience with cloud development technologies (Google Cloud Platform preferred) required

• Strong proficiency in multiple primary programming languages required

• Functional programming experience (e.g. Clojure, Scala) preferred

• Proficiency with streaming and event driven architectures required

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

• Experience in data acquisition, data cleansing and parsing preferred

• Understanding of DevOps practices and extensive experience with associated tools required

• Experience with container based platforms (Kubernetes, Openshift, etc) required

• Experience with monitoring and instrumentation practices preferred

• Understanding of Data Science concepts and practices preferred

• SQL experience (BigQuery) preferred

• Distributed database experience preferred

• Scrum/Agile experience preferred

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal required

• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) preferred

• Healthcare Experience preferred

• Service and Quality Excellence: Ability to demonstrate an uncompromising commitment to delivering exceptional care to create an unmatched value proposition for our patients. Required

• Honor our Mission and Values: Ability to build trust and act with authenticity to cultivate a culture of integrity, inclusion, and mutual respect.  Required

• Effective Decision Making: Ability to make timely, informed decisions that are in the best interest of our patients, employees, providers, community and HCA.  Required

• Attain and Leverage Strategic Relationships: Ability to develop and strengthen collaborative relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to advance the care of our patients and the growth of HCA. Required

• Lead and Develop Others: Ability to lead others to accomplish organizational goals and objectives; provide meaningful coaching and mentoring to increase the capabilities of individuals and teams and drive employee engagement.  Required 

• Communicate with Impact: Ability to deliver information in a clear, concise, and compelling manner to effectively engage others and achieve desired results.  Required

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 benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

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.

Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Software Engineer opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!

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.