IT Lead Software Engineer - Digital Technology Services - Hackensack Meridian Health

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better.

At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

The Digital Technology Services (DTS) Lead Software Engineer will join a collaborative team of extremely talented Engineers, Data Scientists, Human Factors Engineers, and Managers across the Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) network. This role requires building software services and applications that: process healthcare data, extract insights, automate analysis and ETL pipelines, and enable clinicians and other end-users within the organization to perform their work more efficiently.

This is a remote position. 

A day in the life of a Digital Technology Services (DTS) Lead Software Engineer at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

• Develop scalable, secure, robust services and applications that meet the specified requirements.
• Develop correct, understandable, and maintainable code that adheres to the SOLID principles and that is fully unit tested.
• Develop pipeline code responsible for automating the flow of data through services and applications (e.g., Apache Airflow).
• Develop monitoring code responsible for monitoring services and applications for correctness, acceptable performance, and uptime.
• Deploy application artifacts to target environments using the supported technologies and infrastructure.
• Perform tasks during the entire software lifecycle: requirements analysis, iterative development, release, and maintenance.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of 4-7 years experience programming with at least one of the following languages: Python, Ruby, C#, Node.js Javascript.
• Working knowledge of architecting solutions using modern, secure, cloud-based container platforms (Paas/Saas).
• Expert knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Expert at building and deploying containerized services and applications to a cloud platform (ideally, Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience writing code for cluster management (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Experience writing comprehensive unit tests and ensuring those are included in a CI/CD pipeline (e.g., GitHub workflows).
• Experience using Git for version control.
• Experience opening Pull Requests, performing Code Reviews, and managing deployments through branches (e.g., GitHub Flow).
• Experience with data streaming, ingest, ETL and data warehousing technologies.
• Attention to detail, critical thinking, desire to learn, and intellectually curious.
• Ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Translation of complex technical concepts.
• Agile work process.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills including but not limited to Microsoft Office and Google Suite platforms.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

• Master's / PhD.
• Minimum of 8+ years experience programming with at least one of the following languages: Python, Ruby, C#, Node.js Javascript.
• Experience building maintainable, scalable, and high-performance services and applications.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform.

If you feel that the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!