Bluesight
Alexandria, VA
51-200 employees
Bluesight solves hospital pharmacies' complex workflow problems in drug diversion, RFID medication management and pharmacy purchasing.
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Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer
At Bluesight, our mission is to create groundbreaking medication intelligence solutions that increase efficiency, safety and visibility for health systems and pharmaceutical manufacturers. We empower our customers to deliver the right medicine to the right patient at the right time, every time. We are a high growth healthcare information technology company with a start-up 'vibe' but over 2,000 customers tracking medications using our proven solutions.
The opportunity
Bluesight is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help us build the next generation of healthcare pharmacy e-commerce. We have high visibility into the pharmacy supply chain which enables us to provide ordering insights that help hospital buyers make optimal purchasing decisions. This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor and create a new solution that will help hospitals across the country.
What you'll do
We're looking for someone with experience working across both internal and external customers and consumers of data products, with a keen eye for building data architectures and platforms that are robust, extensible, and responsive. Prior experience developing cross-product core data architecture is desirable (especially if any of those were re-engineered efforts!), as well as a cooperative and alignment-building approach to the work. This role will cover the spectrum of our data product offerings, from data governance and security to transformation and implementation, working closely with product owners, engineering teams and external customers to define, create and maintain both the architecture and approach.
You can expect to:
- Define, design, implement and maintain data architectures and infrastructure that unify our core products and improve understanding of customer medication workflows.
- Dive deep into how the FDA, our nation's healthcare systems and drug manufacturers interface and communicate at the medication level.
- Develop and champion good data stewardship and governance practices across the company and work closely with Security
- Design and support customer facing data products both with API and interactive components.
- Provide service levels to our data scientists who are clients of your data pipelines and architecture
About you:
- 5+ years in a Data Engineering role
- Expertise in data orchestration and workflow management tools such as Apache Airflow, Apache NiFi, and Spark, AWS Glue for ETL/ELT/Zero-ETL pipelines
- Competency in SQL, ETL processes, denormalization concepts and programming (dbt, Python)
- Ability to communicate clearly with all audiences about data architecture and implementations, from engineering to product, sales to customer. Strong written and analytical skills.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) – CloudFormation or Terraform – to build and maintain data engineering pipelines
- Familiarity with observability tools like DataDog to monitor data pipelines, set up alerts, triage incidents, resolve customer issues, and continuous product improvement
- Experience with data warehousing platforms and tools such as Amazon Redshift, Snowflake
- Strong bias for action, documentation and education
- Ability to work through ambiguity with open communication and autonomy
Nice to have:
- Any code, writing or projects that are public or shareable demonstrating experience or understanding of how data architecture excellence is key to delivering great products.
- Experience working with data in a regulated industry and working around systemic data quality issues.
What you'll get from us:
- Opportunities to solve problems of scale, debt and security to redefine what’s possible in medication intelligence
- Strong voice in what we work on, how it works, and how it is built
- Room to be creative and choose your own path
- Trust in your sense of ownership
- Dedicated budget for training and career development
- Coworkers who you'll learn from, who will push you and who are looking to learn from you
This position is a remote position and open to applicants in the continental United States.
Why Bluesight?
Bluesight’s culture is built on innovation and teamwork. There’s room to grow and opportunities to take initiative. You will partner with sharp, motivated teammates looking to disrupt a massive industry—and have fun doing it. We truly believe that where you work and what you do matters. Join us as we revolutionize the hospital pharmacy landscape!
-Competitive salary
-Time off when you need it – unlimited vacation days!
-Generous insurance coverage
-401k program with a company match
-Fun, collaborative culture!
EOE AA M/F/VET/Disability
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws.