What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Data Engineer (Databricks) position at TurningPoint Healthcare?
Sr. Data Engineer (Databricks)
Who We Are:
TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions is a leader in advanced clinical and technology-enabled complex condition management. TurningPoint provides an innovative suite of specialty care management services and technologies that enable health plans and employers to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare. Through its platform and specialized team of clinical experts, TurningPoint works collaboratively with providers to deliver optimal care. TurningPoint offers condition-specific, quality-driven, value-based care management services that optimize care from diagnosis and discovery through recovery. TurningPoint’s comprehensive and integrated suite of services enhances the support individuals need, at the time they need it most. Since launching in 2015, TurningPoint has provided support to more than 50 million people nationwide across numerous clinical specialties including musculoskeletal, pain management, cardiology, wound care, ear/nose/throat, and sleep. TurningPoint’s model moves beyond denial-based care to holistic condition management that improves outcomes and reduces cost. TurningPoint is an independent organization, not owned or affiliated with a health plan or provider system.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Serve as a senior technical contributor within the Data Engineering team, providing hands-on development support, code review, troubleshooting, and mentorship to other engineers.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of Databricks-based data solutions, including Lakehouse patterns, Delta Lake tables, medallion data models, ETL/ELT pipelines, workflow orchestration, and reusable data engineering components.
- Build, optimize, and maintain production-grade data pipelines using Databricks, Python, PySpark, SQL, and related cloud data platform services.
- Apply and help improve data engineering best practices, including coding standards, source control, CI/CD, automated testing, documentation, observability, data quality checks, and performance optimization.
- Partner with business, analytics, product, and technology teams to load, curate, and operationalize large-scale datasets that support reporting, analytics, machine learning, and platform capabilities.
- Support data platform initiatives via engineering expertise, solution delivery, reusable data assets, integration patterns, and practical implementation recommendations.
- Participate in technical discovery and solution design for data initiatives, translating business requirements into effective Databricks implementation plans.
- Share knowledge across the team by introducing relevant Databricks capabilities, engineering methods, and platform patterns that improve delivery speed, reliability, and scalability.
Education, Experience and Licensure:
- Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience
- 8 years software development experience
- Experience developing production software using Python
- Experience working with REST API's
- SQL database design experience
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating production data pipelines in Databricks is required
- Experience with PySpark, Delta Lake, Lakehouse architecture, data modeling, workflow orchestration, and performance tuning within Databricks
- Experience with a Distributed Version Control System (e.g., git)
- Experience writing and maintaining test suites (including unit tests)
- A passion for thoroughness, execution and completion
- Ability to communicate in a clear, articulate, team-friendly manner to all levels of an organization to present findings and recommendations to team members and senior management
- Experience in summarizing analysis results using PowerPoint and explaining analysis results to senior management levels
- Experience in working with virtual groups across the organization
- Approachable, personable and team player comfortable working in an Agile environment
- Experience in managing multiple initiatives in parallel
Preferred Skills:
- Databricks certification
- Experience with healthcare data
- Experience with machine learning pipelines
TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer.