Lead Data / AI Engineer at Virtual Company
Seattle, WA 98101
About the Job
Looking for an opportunity that allows you to be a key contributor from the ground up. We currently have an opportunity available for a Lead Data / AI Engineer with one of our premier clients. This role offers 100% remote work schedule with 0% travel requirements
This is an excellent opportunity that offers an opportunity to grow within the organization and be a part of something from its conception.
Under the general direction of the Data Services Director, the Lead Data / AI Engineer will drive the development and implementation of innovative generative AI solutions to enhance audit efficiency and improve data analysis and risk assessment. This role is also responsible for ensuring that proposed solutions are tangible and deliver value to the business.
Qualifications Requirement:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Responsibilities:
- Ability to demonstrate, understand and apply our workplace mission, vision, and values.
- Lead the development and implementation of software solutions, ensuring they meet the specific needs of the healthcare/pharmacy industry, as well as 340B and PBM operations.
- Design native cloud application solutions and/or optimize existing solutions for cloud deployment.
- Drive the development and implementation of innovative generative AI solutions to enhance audit efficiency and improve data analysis and risk assessments.
- Work closely with the Chief Information Officer, product teams, and architecture teams to align development efforts with strategic business objectives, with a particular focus on healthcare solutions.
- Work closely with offshore and onshore sprint teams, promoting collaboration and innovation within legacy on-prem and AWS environments.
- Ensure that proposed solutions are tangible and deliver value to the business.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in AI to continuously improve the organization's capabilities.
Work & Education Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- 3-5 years of experience with AWS developing data ingestion, data processing, generative AI, and analytical pipelines, relational databases, NoSQL, and data warehouse solutions.
- Deep understanding of the MERN framework, event driven streaming systems (e.g. Kafka, Flink), as well as SQL, Java, Talend, Glue, and AWS Development Services, with the ability to apply these technologies in healthcare contexts, especially PBMs.
- Experience working with DevOps tools such as GitLabs, Jenkins, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy, etc.
- Experience working with data visualization tools such as Tableau.
Required Competencies:
- Ability to develop a unique understanding of our client’s brand, products, and services.
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills, including Outlook, Teams, Excel, and Word.
- Proficiency in cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and experience designing cloud-based solutions.
- Proficiency in data modeling techniques and tools to design, structure, and manage databases and data architectures.
- Solid background in full-stack solutions and cloud-native application development, with a focus on healthcare and pharmacy benefit management solutions.
- Proven ability to manage IT projects within healthcare, demonstrating effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the capacity to identify and mitigate risks in project development and clearly communicate issues with development teams and stakeholders.
- Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations.
Supervisory/Leadership Responsibilities:
This position is responsible for fostering an employee-oriented company culture that emphasizes quality, continuous improvement, employee retention and development and high performance cross-functionally.
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
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By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.