Data Engineer

POSITION OVERVIEW

NBME® is looking for a Data Engineer to join a highly skilled and growing team of data engineers and BI developers. In this role you will be using your data engineering skills and problem-solving skills to deliver meaningful insights to Internal and external customers. The Data Engineer will be responsible for modernizing, expanding, and optimizing NMBE data warehouse by building data integrations, supporting reporting and data visualization for internal and external customers, as well as optimizing new/existing data flows.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

At NBME, we continue to innovate and improve how we fulfill the evolving needs of the health care community. This commitment starts and ends with the people at NBME. By recruiting and empowering talented individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds, which includes professionals with diverse life experiences, abilities, and perspectives, NBME can take a well-informed, robust approach to advancing medical education and assessment for years to come. We also continue to focus on ensuring that our DEI work is impactful and ingrained in everything we do, including with our staff, workplace culture, products and services, the Philadelphia community and the broader medical education.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participates in requirements gathering, analyzes and architects project and/or system data architectures. In collaboration with subject matter experts, data analysts, solutions and enterprise architects, ensures designs are consistent and coherent to the enterprise architecture standards and existing environment.
• Be a critical part of a scrum team in an agile environment, ensuring the team successfully meets its deliverables each sprint.
• Trains and mentors team members
• Work independently and effectively to manage one's time across multiple priorities and projects.
• Assures the integrity and accuracy of the corporate data, with particular attention to data security.
• Responsible to ensure high data quality for Data Services, Analytics and Master Data Management.
• Perform Logical and Physical data modeling with an agile mindset
• Build automated, scalable, test-driven data pipelines.
• Utilize software development practices such as version control via Git, CI/CD, and release management.
• Build data products using various visualization, BI tools and data science tools.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers, DevOps engineers and architects on improvement opportunities for DataOps tools and frameworks.
• Be a trusted partner by providing agile capabilities and outstanding services through digital transformation

QUALIFICATIONS

Skills and Abilities

• Expert in data modeling, database management and data profiling techniques, particularly in Data Warehouse, Master Data Management (MDM), and in the design and delivery of Business Intelligence solutions.
• Deep understanding of industry standards and best practices
• Strong analytic skills related to working with structured and unstructured datasets.
• Critical thinker and creative problem-solving skills along with the ability to communicate well with stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Highly proficient in PL/SQL
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Oracle, MS SQL Server and HBase.
• Experience with data integration tools: Informatica, Boomi, Fivetran, MS Integration Services, Sqoop, etc.
• Experience with one of the cloud vendors and services: AWS, Google, Microsoft, Snowflake
• Experience consuming and building APIs
• Experience with object-oriented/object function programming languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• Experience with visual analytics tools: QlikView, Tableau, Power BI, Micro strategy etc.
• Experience utilizing Agile methodology for development.
• Experience with Singer and DBT is a plus

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years of Data Engineering and Data Warehousing experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with python
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with data integration tools like Informatica, Boomi, AWS - Glue etc.
• Minimum 1 year of experience with AWS services like S3 and Redshift

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6 years of relevant work experience. Master's degree is a plus.

About NBME:

NBME offers a versatile selection of high-quality assessments and educational services for students, professionals, educators, regulators and institutions dedicated to the evolving needs of medical education and health care. To ensure our assessments meet the highest standards of quality, stay relevant and align to the current curriculum in medical schools and training programs, we rely on a wide network of collaborators. These include the volunteers who help develop our exam questions, the committees and panels who represent various groups within the medical education community, external researchers and health profession organizations.

We are committed to meeting the needs of educators and learners globally with assessment products and expert services such as NBME Subject Examinations, Customized Assessment Services, Self-Assessments, the International Foundations of Medicine Program and Item Writing Workshops. Together with the Federation of State Medical Boards, NBME develops and manages the United States Medical Licensing Examination, which measures the ability to apply knowledge and skills that form the basis of safe and effective patient care. Our Competency-based Assessment unit is focused on new methods as well as the optimization of assessment in the workplace and education.

As a result of leadership in ongoing research, innovative measurement practices and the exploration of forward-thinking assessment modalities and improvements, NBME advances assessment science. Our grant and funding opportunities further support this dedication to medical education and assessment science. We help develop the next generation of assessment professionals through our Summer Psychometric Internship Program. Through the Stemmler Fund, Strategic Educators Enhancement Fund and Latin America Grants Program, researchers and educators can continue to improve the assessment of health care professionals around the world.

NBME views diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as foundational and enduring to our strategy and vision. We continue to focus on ensuring that our DEI work is impactful and ingrained in everything we do, including with our staff, culture, products and services, the Philadelphia community and the broader medical education landscape. Our commitment manifests in our hiring and staff development, recruitment for committees, grants programs, design and review of our assessments, and involvement in our local and national communities.

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The NBME offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a rewarding work environment. Excellent Benefits include: Healthcare, Dental, Prescription, and Vision plans; 401(k) w/match; Retirement Income Plan, Tuition Reimbursement Plan, Commuter Benefit: Public Transit or Parking options. Remote Friendly Workplace.

NBME is an EEO employer as defined by the EEOC.