Lead Data Engineer

Job Description 

Lead Data Engineer

Job Summary:

Lead a team of data engineers providing direction, training, and guidance to implement software solutions. Collaborate with a cross functional team, which includes developers, product managers, QA engineers, and business analysts, to implement solutions tightly aligned with business objectives. Partner with other engineering leads to design cloud infrastructure solutions and build with quality, security, and scalability. Use the latest data flow technologies and cloud services to produce exceptional software within a continuous integration/continuous delivery environment. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product Management and other functional teams to evaluate, develop, and maintain product features for Provation products.
• Mentor and provide professional development for team members.
• Help plan and prioritize engineering team activities and backlog.
• Develop product expertise, technical mastery and build a team.
• Ensure standards and framework compliance across the development team.
• Lead team to deliver planned commitments on time.
• Learn, understand, and use innovative technologies to gain competitive advantage.
• Creatively brainstorm and innovate on prototypes as well as future products and features to drive the business forward.
• Proactively research industry trends and best practices to apply them as necessary
• Deliver high-quality and on-schedule work according to Agile software development methodology.
• Participate in Agile activities including daily stand ups, estimations, and backlog grooming and reviews.
• Provide internal development support which includes delivering fast and high-quality fixes to urgent production issues.
• Actively create opportunities for code/component re-use
• Leverage existing frameworks, platforms, and patterns to increase time to market.
• Promote and ensure standards and framework compliance across the development team.
• Participate in code reviews providing guidance to Development and QA team members.

Job Requirements:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related degree preferred or equivalent work experience
• At least 5-7 years software development experience
• Proficiency with dynamic languages such as Python or compiled languages such as Rust
• Experience with web-based technologies such as JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, LESS and HTML5
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as Pytest
• Experience with SQL and relational databases such PostgreSQL
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
• Solid knowledge of security and encryption best practices

About Fortive:

Fortive provides essential technologies for connected workflow solutions across various attractive end markets. We are leading in advanced healthcare solutions, intelligent operating solutions, and precision technologies. Our company is headquartered in Everett, Washington, and employs a team of more than 17,000 research and development, manufacturing, sales, distribution, service, and administrative employees in more than 50 countries around the world.

Our shared purpose is to create essential technology for the people who accelerate progress. Our innovations keep the world moving forward. We work together to accelerate the pace of progress and to make a difference.

About Provation:

Provation is a leading provider of healthcare software and SaaS solutions for clinical productivity, care coordination, quality reporting, and billing. Our purpose is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. Provation’s comprehensive portfolio spans the entire patient encounter, from pre-procedure through post-procedure, with solutions for physician and nursing documentation (Provation^® MD, Provation^® Apex, MD-Reports, Provation^® endoPRO^®, and Provation^® MultiCaregiver), anesthesia documentation (#1 Best in KLAS Provation^® iPro), patient engagement, surgical care coordination, quality reporting, and billing capture (Provation^® SurgicalValet™), order set and care plan management (Provation^® Order Set Advisor™ and Provation^®Care Plans), and EHR embedded clinical documentation (Provation^® Clinic Note). Provation has a loyal customer base, serving over 5,000 hospitals, surgery centers, medical offices, and 700 physician groups globally, including 19 of the top 20 U.S. hospitals. In 2021, Provation was acquired by Fortive Corporation, a Fortune 1000 company that builds essential technology and accelerates transformation in high-impact fields like workplace safety, engineering, and healthcare. For more information about our solutions, visit provationmedical.com and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Our purpose at Provation is to empower providers to deliver quality healthcare for all. To deliver on this commitment, we’re guided by our core values – 

Provation has a culture of CARES:

• Community -We have a shared sense of improving healthcare and enriching the broader world we live in and serve.
• Accountability - We own it and get it done with integrity.
• Respect - We build diverse teams collaborating and communicating with positive intent and trust.
• Excellence - We welcome new ideas as we innovate quality solutions.
• Service - We are passionate about putting customers first.

The Fortive Promise - For you. For us. For growth.

• We believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow and make an impact. And we believe in giving you the opportunity, accountability, and visibility to do just that.
• We believe in us. We believe in the power of great people working together to innovate and solve problems no one could solve alone. We build enduring partnerships with our customers and take on their challenges and opportunities as our own.
• We believe in growth. We are honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we work hard to innovate and improve. With a passionate focus on our markets and our customers, we learn and grow together to make a difference in the world.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by most people assigned to this job.  They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities and requirements.