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Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Senior Staff Data Engineer Elixir today with HCA Healthcare.
Position Summary
What makes HCA Healthcare Information Technology Group (ITG) unique as a technology company is that our solutions ultimately impact the care of patients. Although our skills are needed in many industries, we in ITG apply them specifically to the noble cause of healthcare. We are "Healthcare Inspired." It is this guiding vision that pervades and positively influences every level of our organization. It shapes our mission, defines our values, and brings our leaders and employees together in a shared enthusiasm for their work, setting ITG apart as a uniquely purpose-driven company in the IT industry. As a part of that, we exist to raise the bar, unlock possibilities, and care like family. As a Sr. Staff Data Engineer you will be part of the data engineering community which includes integration platforms, software engineering, and visual insights. We use our data infrastructure to power analytics and data products and to deliver relevant experiences in real-time. We enable our company to validate strategic decisions, make smarter choices, and react to the fast-changing world of healthcare. Works closely with other HCA ITG Architects and Engineers to ensure enterprise technical standards are maintained and our integration platforms continue to deliver data as expected. Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to develop or modify moderately complex information systems. Pairs with analysts to create and implement detailed specifications. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, documents, and maintains those programs. Competent to work on all phases of applications systems analysis and programming activities. Provides guidance to other staff members through all phases of project. HCA is on a mission to change the face of the healthcare industry through value-driven technology and products. You will be part of a small agile team with a mission of innovating data products for all users of healthcare across HCA’s nationwide ecosystem. At the intersection of healthcare and technology is the opportunity to change lives for the better through technology modernization, curiosity, and adapting or setting industry best practices.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
DECISION MAKING
- Meets with customer peers, and vendors regularly to define and resolve product or project problems and issues
- Analyzes business requirements, develops and evaluates alternatives, prepares approaches for complex programming systems or applications
- Design and create real-time data pipelines that accelerate the time from idea to insight
- Define and document data engineering best practices, processes, and standards. Support teams in upholding these standards and evolve and update the standards as technology changes
- Produce high-quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates best practices and serves as an example for less experienced engineers
- Promote and support data security best practices that align with industry standards and regulatory and legal requirements
- Participate in all systems software buy or build decisions
- Contributes to development of strategy and architecture
- Provides technical advice to management recommending approaches and solutions to complex problems
ANALYTICAL & CREATIVE
- Analyzes objectives, solves problems, and develops requirements and proposals for programming systems. These activities require sophisticated business and technical expertise, and extensive programming systems
- Implement automated workflows that lower manual/operational costs, define and uphold SLAs for timely delivery of data, and move the company closer to democratizing data
- Enable self-service data architecture supporting query exploration, dashboards, data catalog, and rich data discovery
- Lead data analysis efforts and solution proposals to data-related and data architecture problems
- Lead implementation of unit and integration tests and promote and conduct performance testing where appropriate
- Work may result in publication of technical papers
- Keeps technically current with changes and improvements within area of assignment or specialization, incorporating them where applicable
- Contributes to the development of new programming/analysis concepts and improvements of existing technique
RELATIONSHIPS
- Build productive and healthy relationships within the department and other teams to foster growth of our culture, our people, and our platforms
- Work with data engineers, data architects, data scientists, and other internal stakeholders to understand product requirements and then design, build, and monitor data platforms and pipelines that meet today's requirements but can gracefully scale
- Work closely with all business units and engineering teams to develop the strategy and roadmap for long term data platform architecture
- Represents company at technical conferences
- Must be able to understand the requirements of multiple departments, identify and negotiate tradeoffs to gain management agreement with proposed recommendations
- Regularly participate in vendor discussions
- Mentor team members on complex data projects, estimating their work, and following the Agile process
- Mentoring and guiding junior engineers in developing onboarding and training plans to level up the team
- Working with Product Management to develop and communicate product roadmaps based on the business needs and value delivered
- Be curious. Be growth-minded. Encourage and enable this in others
- Demonstrate professional and personal maturity through self-leadership
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field preferred
- 7+ years of experience in a software engineering, data engineering, or related roles required
- Demonstrated professional experience with Elixir, Erlang VM, required
- Experience with Phoenix LiveView, HTML/CSS, SQL and NoSQL Database and UNIX operating system preferred
LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, & TRAINING
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer preferred
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer or AWS Certified Data Analytics
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES, BEHAVIORS
- Demonstrates an empathetic and growth mindset with a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and methodologies required
- Strong knowledge of best practices and design patterns used in creating, automating, and supporting data pipelines required
- Strong ability to assemble large, complex sets of data that meet functional and non-functional product requirements required
- Strong ability to identify, design, and implement internal process improvements including redesigning data platforms for greater scalability, optimized data delivery, and automating manual processes required
- Strong ability to create and use analytical tools to monitor data pipeline metrics and provide actionable intelligence to increase operational efficiency and valuable data outcomes required
- Strong ability to present and facilitate technical ideas while creating alignment among audience of varying disciplines required
- Expert ability using source control management tools such as Git/GitHub required
- Expert ability using CI/CD automation tools required
- Knowledge of healthcare integration standards such as HL7 and FHIR preferred
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and how to apply Agile within the team required
- Helps coach and mentor junior team members and others external to the team required
- Proven ability to complete work, make sound decisions, and plan and accomplish goals without explicit direction/guidance from leadership required
- Builds and nurtures healthy relationships with all colleagues required
- Stays abreast of public cloud technologies, capabilities, and industry use of public cloud to help guide HCA’s strategy and adoption required
- Demonstrates productive and inclusive communication skills with all colleagues required
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills required
- Ability to work both independently and on a team preferred
- Ability to sit for long periods of time required
BENEFITS
HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Senior Staff Data Engineer Elixir opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
INTRODUCTION
Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Senior Staff Data Engineer Elixir today with HCA Healthcare.
Position Summary
What makes HCA Healthcare Information Technology Group (ITG) unique as a technology company is that our solutions ultimately impact the care of patients. Although our skills are needed in many industries, we in ITG apply them specifically to the noble cause of healthcare. We are "Healthcare Inspired." It is this guiding vision that pervades and positively influences every level of our organization. It shapes our mission, defines our values, and brings our leaders and employees together in a shared enthusiasm for their work, setting ITG apart as a uniquely purpose-driven company in the IT industry. As a part of that, we exist to raise the bar, unlock possibilities, and care like family. As a Sr. Staff Data Engineer you will be part of the data engineering community which includes integration platforms, software engineering, and visual insights. We use our data infrastructure to power analytics and data products and to deliver relevant experiences in real-time. We enable our company to validate strategic decisions, make smarter choices, and react to the fast-changing world of healthcare. Works closely with other HCA ITG Architects and Engineers to ensure enterprise technical standards are maintained and our integration platforms continue to deliver data as expected. Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to develop or modify moderately complex information systems. Pairs with analysts to create and implement detailed specifications. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, documents, and maintains those programs. Competent to work on all phases of applications systems analysis and programming activities. Provides guidance to other staff members through all phases of project. HCA is on a mission to change the face of the healthcare industry through value-driven technology and products. You will be part of a small agile team with a mission of innovating data products for all users of healthcare across HCA’s nationwide ecosystem. At the intersection of healthcare and technology is the opportunity to change lives for the better through technology modernization, curiosity, and adapting or setting industry best practices.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
DECISION MAKING
- Meets with customer peers, and vendors regularly to define and resolve product or project problems and issues
- Analyzes business requirements, develops and evaluates alternatives, prepares approaches for complex programming systems or applications
- Design and create real-time data pipelines that accelerate the time from idea to insight
- Define and document data engineering best practices, processes, and standards. Support teams in upholding these standards and evolve and update the standards as technology changes
- Produce high-quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates best practices and serves as an example for less experienced engineers
- Promote and support data security best practices that align with industry standards and regulatory and legal requirements
- Participate in all systems software buy or build decisions
- Contributes to development of strategy and architecture
- Provides technical advice to management recommending approaches and solutions to complex problems
ANALYTICAL & CREATIVE
- Analyzes objectives, solves problems, and develops requirements and proposals for programming systems. These activities require sophisticated business and technical expertise, and extensive programming systems
- Implement automated workflows that lower manual/operational costs, define and uphold SLAs for timely delivery of data, and move the company closer to democratizing data
- Enable self-service data architecture supporting query exploration, dashboards, data catalog, and rich data discovery
- Lead data analysis efforts and solution proposals to data-related and data architecture problems
- Lead implementation of unit and integration tests and promote and conduct performance testing where appropriate
- Work may result in publication of technical papers
- Keeps technically current with changes and improvements within area of assignment or specialization, incorporating them where applicable
- Contributes to the development of new programming/analysis concepts and improvements of existing technique
RELATIONSHIPS
- Build productive and healthy relationships within the department and other teams to foster growth of our culture, our people, and our platforms
- Work with data engineers, data architects, data scientists, and other internal stakeholders to understand product requirements and then design, build, and monitor data platforms and pipelines that meet today's requirements but can gracefully scale
- Work closely with all business units and engineering teams to develop the strategy and roadmap for long term data platform architecture
- Represents company at technical conferences
- Must be able to understand the requirements of multiple departments, identify and negotiate tradeoffs to gain management agreement with proposed recommendations
- Regularly participate in vendor discussions
- Mentor team members on complex data projects, estimating their work, and following the Agile process
- Mentoring and guiding junior engineers in developing onboarding and training plans to level up the team
- Working with Product Management to develop and communicate product roadmaps based on the business needs and value delivered
- Be curious. Be growth-minded. Encourage and enable this in others
- Demonstrate professional and personal maturity through self-leadership
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field preferred
- 7+ years of experience in a software engineering, data engineering, or related roles required
- Demonstrated professional experience with Elixir, Erlang VM, required
- Experience with Phoenix LiveView, HTML/CSS, SQL and NoSQL Database and UNIX operating system preferred
LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, & TRAINING
- Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer preferred
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer or AWS Certified Data Analytics
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES, BEHAVIORS
- Demonstrates an empathetic and growth mindset with a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and methodologies required
- Strong knowledge of best practices and design patterns used in creating, automating, and supporting data pipelines required
- Strong ability to assemble large, complex sets of data that meet functional and non-functional product requirements required
- Strong ability to identify, design, and implement internal process improvements including redesigning data platforms for greater scalability, optimized data delivery, and automating manual processes required
- Strong ability to create and use analytical tools to monitor data pipeline metrics and provide actionable intelligence to increase operational efficiency and valuable data outcomes required
- Strong ability to present and facilitate technical ideas while creating alignment among audience of varying disciplines required
- Expert ability using source control management tools such as Git/GitHub required
- Expert ability using CI/CD automation tools required
- Knowledge of healthcare integration standards such as HL7 and FHIR preferred
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and how to apply Agile within the team required
- Helps coach and mentor junior team members and others external to the team required
- Proven ability to complete work, make sound decisions, and plan and accomplish goals without explicit direction/guidance from leadership required
- Builds and nurtures healthy relationships with all colleagues required
- Stays abreast of public cloud technologies, capabilities, and industry use of public cloud to help guide HCA’s strategy and adoption required
- Demonstrates productive and inclusive communication skills with all colleagues required
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills required
- Ability to work both independently and on a team preferred
- Ability to sit for long periods of time required
BENEFITS
HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patient's family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr. HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Senior Staff Data Engineer Elixir opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Staff Data Engineer
Target employers with established H-1B track records
Companies that have filed H-1B petitions for data engineering roles in prior years are far more likely to sponsor again. Consistent filing history signals an internal process, legal counsel on retainer, and leadership buy-in for international hires.
Position your seniority as the sponsorship justification
Staff and Senior Staff titles signal specialized expertise that's genuinely hard to source domestically. Frame your experience around proprietary systems, large-scale architecture, and cross-functional leadership, which strengthens the specialty occupation argument in the H-1B petition.
Raise the visa conversation after demonstrating value
Bring up sponsorship after a technical screen or take-home, not in the first outreach. At this level, hiring managers have budget flexibility, but they need confidence in the hire before committing to the legal and administrative overhead of a petition.
Ask specifically about cap-exempt employers
Universities, research institutions, and affiliated nonprofits are exempt from the H-1B lottery cap. Senior Staff Data Engineers at these organizations can receive H-1B approval year-round without competing in the annual lottery, which is a meaningful advantage.
Get your I-140 approved early if you're on an H-1B
Filing an EB-1B or EB-2 NIW I-140 petition early preserves your priority date and unlocks H-1B extensions beyond the standard six-year limit. At Senior Staff level, an approved I-140 also gives you more leverage in job negotiations.
Clarify whether the LCA covers your actual work location
If you're working remotely from a state different from the employer's listed address, the Labor Condition Application must reflect your physical work location. Mismatches can create compliance issues at renewal or during an RFE, so confirm this before accepting an offer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which visa types do Senior Staff Data Engineers typically get sponsored for?
H-1B visa is the most common path. Data engineering at the Senior Staff level qualifies as a specialty occupation because the role requires at minimum a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a closely related field. O-1A is viable for engineers with documented impact, patents, published work, or industry recognition. L-1A or L-1B apply if you're transferring from an overseas office of the same employer.
Does a Senior Staff Data Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, consistently. USCIS has approved H-1B petitions for data engineering roles across thousands of employers. The key requirement is that the position genuinely requires a specific bachelor's degree or higher, not just any degree. Senior Staff roles typically involve distributed systems, data architecture, or pipeline design at scale, which supports the specialty occupation argument clearly. USCIS RFEs on these petitions are relatively uncommon compared to more ambiguous titles.
Does my degree field matter for H-1B sponsorship as a data engineer?
Yes. The degree needs to relate directly to the role. Computer science, software engineering, data science, mathematics, and statistics all support a strong petition. If your degree is in an unrelated field, your employer's attorney will need to build the case around equivalent experience, which requires three years of relevant work experience for every year of missing education. A mismatch doesn't automatically disqualify you, but it adds complexity to the petition.
How competitive is H-1B sponsorship for Senior Staff Data Engineers compared to mid-level roles?
More favorable. Employers are more willing to absorb the cost and administrative effort for Senior Staff hires because the role is harder to backfill. The lottery odds are the same regardless of seniority, but at this level employers are more likely to use premium processing, engage experienced counsel, and respond quickly to RFEs. Cap-exempt employers remain an option worth prioritizing. You can browse Senior Staff Data Engineer roles with confirmed sponsorship on Migrate Mate.
Can I switch employers mid-H-1B as a Senior Staff Data Engineer?
Yes. Under H-1B portability, you can start working for a new employer as soon as they file an H-1B transfer petition, without waiting for approval, as long as your previous H-1B was valid and you're maintaining lawful status. The new employer files a new I-129 petition with an LCA covering your role and location. At Senior Staff level, this process is routine for employers who regularly hire visa holders.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Senior Staff Data Engineer jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.