Consumers' Checkbook/CSS is looking for a skilled and motivated Data Engineer to join our growing team. You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our data architecture that is used to help consumers navigate their healthcare choices from the various tools and products developed by Checkbook/CSS. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the efficient and reliable processing of multiple complex datasets, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organization.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data engineering, a deep understanding of data management principles, the ability to implement scalable and robust data solutions, and believe in the mission of our nonprofit to help consumers make difficult healthcare decisions easier.

The Organization

Consumers' Checkbook/Center for the Study of Services (Checkbook/CSS) is a consumer nonprofit with over 45 years of experience evaluating many types of service providers. This work has put us on the front lines of reforming the health care system to identify quality providers and insurance coverage. Our products provide consumers with timely, complete, and relevant information to help them make good choices in healthcare and other consumer services. Checkbook's healthcare offerings include publications and decision support tools to help consumers choose doctors, hospitals and health plans. We work hard at finding novel and relevant ways to measure the quality of healthcare that is delivered, and explain what it means for individual consumers. We also provide consumers ways to get high quality and lower costs for other services, such as home insurance, repair, and renovation, auto insurance and repair, and many other types of local services.

Examples of our products are our health plan comparison tools, which we provide for consumers in various states, and our ratings of individual surgeons based on risk adjusted mortality and complication rates. And we have won the inaugural National Quality Forum Consumers and Patients for Quality Award and the First Place Award in two Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Challenges: the Plan Choice Challenge and the Network Challenge.

We also contribute to policy-making to improve the health system, from efforts to make data on doctor availability, quality, and price more available (resulting in winning the Health Data Liberator award at Health Datapalooza) to improving and analyzing plan and provider networks for insurance regulators.

If you are passionate about making our health system more efficient and responsive to individuals, come help us in making consumer-driven healthcare really work for consumers.

We have a positive team environment, and a culture of collaborating and acting quickly around how to make markets work better for consumers.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar.
• 5 years of experience with data engineering, database engineering, or software engineering.
• Proficiency with Python or R.
• Experience loading and extracting data from structured databases (SQL Server, Postgres).
• Experience with Pandas, Polars, DataTable, SQLAlchemy or equivalent.
• Experience with cloud services, preferably Azure.

Please see full job description for more details.

Why work for CSS?

• Great benefits, including: medical, dental, vision, disability, and life
• 11 paid holidays in the year your birthday
• 120 hours of vacation per year, accrued biweekly
• 40 hours of sick per year, accrued biweekly
• 10% employer 403b contribution after 2 years of service
• Employee Assistance Program

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