Lead Member of Technical Staff

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

athenahealth is a progressive, innovation-driven software product company. We partner with healthcare organizations across the care continuum to drive clinical and financial results. Our expert teams build modern technology on an open, connected ecosystem, yielding insights that make a difference for our customers and their patients. We maintain a unique values-driven employee culture and offer a flexible work-life balance. As evidence of our rapid growth and industry leadership, we were acquired by the world's leading private equity firm Bain Capital in 2022 for $17bn! and we have many new strategic product initiatives

Do you have a passion for things data ingestion, transformation, validation, quality, etc. Do you believe that accurate and timely data delivery is critical to patient health outcomes If so, here's your chance to join the VBC (Value Based Care) Data Pipelines team at athenahealth. This team will be responsible for wrangling data to enhance athenaOne's product suite which delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Position Summary: We are looking for a Lead Member of Technical Staff to join this newly formed team. You will collaborate with talented engineers who are transforming healthcare data into actionable insights that empower clinicians, researchers, and administrators to deliver better care.

The Team: The VBC Data Pipelines team is responsible for building out efficient and resilient data pipelines for ingesting, cleansing, transforming, and enriching data to unlock the value of athena's value-based care (VBC) offerings and building out athena's next generation population health workflows. The team will be focused on highly scalable data technologies in the cloud to enable the delivery of insights and drive actions across multiple sets of users, including Care Managers, Analysts, and ACO's and healthcare providers.

The ideal candidate would be a motivated lead software engineer who has a passion for data and is willing to work collaboratively across teams and organizations. If you are working with data at scale, and using Cloud based tech stacks, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

• Produce accurate, unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail.
• Deliver customer value in the form ofhigh-qualitysoftware components and services in adherence with policies on Security, performance, longevity and Integration testing.
• Understand, debug existing systems and propose new, alternative technology to make them more scalable and achieve results.
• Perform peer code reviews to ensure quality standards.
• Provide your input in design discussions.
• Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert, share business and technical insights with the team and broaden engineering and product organization.
• Collaborate inclusively with cross-functional team members to develop product solutions that ultimately help improve health outcomes for patients.
• Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate effectively with data engineers, data scientists,analysts,software engineers,and business leaders to translate data needs into actionable solutions.
• Troubleshoot production and non-production issues and support athenaOne customers.
• Demonstrate ownership for what you and the team build and deploy in production.
• Take lead on RCA discussions, production issues and troubleshooting.
  
  

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science,Information Systems,or equivalent.
• 8+ years of commercial software engineering experience, dealing with data at scale.
• Extensive knowledge of one or more modern programming languages such as: Python, Perl, Java, and JavaScript.
• Knowledge of Unix/Linux, SQL, NOSQL, and related tools and performance tuning.
• Experience with delivering products that leverage one or more of AWS/Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud Provider/Snowflake.
• Experience with commercial data tools such as Informatica and Talend, as well as Data Analytics tools such as Tableau and PowerBI.
• Knowledge of Agile SDLC practices; familiarity with unit and integration testing, as well as design and code reviews and documentation.
• Ability to write code that is technically sound, testable, resilient, performant, scalable, and readable.
• Experience with DevOps principles, and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Jenkins along with git, bitbucket and other source code repositories.
• Strong communication skills to work across geographies, and a record of engineering achievement, code ownership, and customer orientation.
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills that encourage growth for more junior members.
• Track record of designing and delivering cloud-based products, modules, and services.
• Proven track record of implementing and adopting new technologies and methodologies.
• Knowledge of healthcare and electronic health records is a plus.
  
  

About Athenahealth

Here's our vision:To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

What's unique about our locations

From an historic, 19th century arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant, all of athenahealth's offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams. Our 10 offices across the United States and India plus numerous remote employees all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.

Our Company Culture Might Be Our Best Feature.

We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work That's another story. athenahealth develops and implements products and services that support US healthcare: It's our chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.

Our vibrant and talentedemployees or athenistas, as we call ourselves spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our goal. We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where everyathenistafeels comfortable bringing their best selves to work.

Our size makes a difference, too: We are small enough that your individual contributions will stand out but large enough to grow your career with our resources and established business stability.

Giving back is integral to our culture. Our athenaGives platform strives to support food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future. As part of the evolution of athenahealth's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, we've selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.

What can we do for you

Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborativeworkspaces some offices even welcome dogs.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. And we provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.

We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment,full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealthenablesemployees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.