JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking a skilled Database Engineer to join our team within the Division of Data Driven and Digital Medicine (D3M) and Institute for Critical Care Medicine (ICCM). In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining a robust datamarts, data warehouses, databases and data visualization platforms for healthcare data. You will utilize your expertise in database management systems, to work with both current ETL/Data Warehousing and future Big Data/Streaming/Pipeline architectures. The focus will be on choosing optimal solutions to use for these purposes, then implementing, maintaining, and monitoring them, always being mindful of the overarching goal of accelerating translational research and improving clinical care.

RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Facilitate data collection from a variety of different sources, getting it in the right formats, assuring that it adheres to data quality standards, and assuring that downstream users can get that data quickly and with a common standard interface.

2. Ensure that data streams/pipelines are scalable, repeatable, and secure, and can serve multiple users.

3. Design and develop a comprehensive datamart framework and data visualization platforms for healthcare data, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and data integrity.

4. Manage and administer databases on relational database management systems such as Postgres or Microsoft SQL Server, optimizing performance and ensuring high availability.

5. Develop and implement Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes to seamlessly integrate healthcare data from sources including Epic Inc's Caboodle and Clarity databases into the data mart.

6. Responsible for creating the infrastructure that provides insight from raw data and handles diverse sources of data seamlessly.

7. Additional responsibilities include developing prototypes and proof of concepts for the selected solutions, and implementing complex big data projects with a focus on collecting, parsing, and managing large sets of data using multiple platforms to allow for Research and Data Science initiatives.

8. Translate business requirements into modern data pipeline solutions. Create centralized documents and diagrams of all solutions.

9. Design and implement monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery of data systems.

10. Create a data catalog store of all metadata.

11. Responsible for the integrity and security of data in all forms of storage throughout the Data Architecture. Ensure compliance with the Institutional Review Board and HIPAA to follow all applicable policies and procedures.

12. Assist in the development of standards and procedures affecting data management, design and maintenance. Documents all standards and procedures.

13. Possess an extremely flexible attitude. Willing to work with multiple types of technologies and languages with an open mind and without technology bias. Continuous interest in updating skill sets and knowledge of trends in the Big Data Technology space.

14. Work closely with cross-functional teams including data scientists, healthcare providers, and IT professionals to understand data requirements, develop solutions, and support data-driven decision-making.

15. Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.

• Strong proficiency in ETL processes, data warehousing, and data integration techniques with proven experience in database development and management

• Strong SQL and NoSQL database knowledge: Oracle, PostgreSQL/MYSQL, Mongo DB (or similar)

• In-depth knowledge of healthcare data systems and standards, including experience with Epic Inc's Caboodle and Clarity databases is a big plus

• Working knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation on Azure or AWS, is a big plus. Experience with serverless computing, creating VMs, cloud security, and other cloud services is also a big plus.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.

• Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate in a team environment

• Hybrid (New York City + remote)

Non-Bargaining Unit, 024 - Personalized Medicine Inst - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine

REQUIRED SKILLS

Microsoft Office Suite

ABOUT US

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.

• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.

• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Requisition ID : 3018446