HCA Healthcare · 1 week ago
Staff Data Engineer - AI Tooling
Nashville, TN
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expHCA Healthcare is committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care and is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to support their healthcare initiatives. The role involves designing and implementing data solutions on GCP, collaborating with various teams to enhance patient care through data-driven insights.
BiotechnologyHealth CareHospitalMedicalPrimary and Urgent Care
Responsibilities
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
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 a self-service data architecture supporting query exploration, dashboards, data catalog, and rich data discovery
Promote a collaborative team environment that prioritizes effective communication, team member growth, and success of the team over success of the individual
Design and create real-time data pipelines that accelerate the time from idea to insight
Adheres to and supports data engineering best practices, processes, and standards
Produce high quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates best practices and serves as an example for less experienced engineers
Helps promote and support data security best practices that align with industry standards and regulatory and legal requirements
Help mentor team members on complex data projects and following the Agile process
Help lead data analysis efforts and solution proposals to data related and data architecture problems
Help lead implementation of unit and integration tests and promote and conduct performance testing where appropriate
Be a leader in the HCA data community. Evangelize data engineering best practices and standards, participate, or present at community events, and encourage the continual growth and development of others
Be curious. Be growth minded. Encourage and enable this in others
Demonstrate professional and personal maturity through self-leadership
Build productive and healthy relationships within the department and other teams to foster growth of our culture, our people, and our platforms
Practices and adheres to the 'Code of Conduct' philosophy and 'Mission and Value Statement.'
Perform other duties as assigned
Responsible for building and supporting a GCP based ecosystem designed for enterprise-wide analysis of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data
Work independently, and complete tasks on-schedule by exercising strong judgment and problem-solving skills
Analyze requirements, design AI/ML based solutions, and integrate those solutions for customer environments
Proven experience effectively prioritizing workload to meet deadlines and work objectives
Works in an environment with rapidly changing business requirements and priorities
Shares knowledge and experience to contribute to growth of overall team capabilities
Actively participate in technical group discussions and adopt any modern technologies to improve the development and operations
Apply AI-native engineering practices to design, implement, and optimize data and software systems, accelerating time-to-value
Incorporate prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and automated evaluation techniques into data solutions and workflows
Prototype, test, and iterate rapidly using AI-assisted development approaches, ensuring scalable and reliable production systems
Explore and integrate agentic workflows and emerging AI/ML capabilities to enhance automation and decision-making across platforms
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in computer science, related technical field, or equivalent experience required
5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer required
7+ years of experience in information technology required
Demonstrates an empathetic and growth mindset with a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and methodologies. required
Strong knowledge of public cloud 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. required
Expert ability using source control management tools such as Git/GitHub. required
Expert ability using CI/CD automation tools. required
Strong understanding of SQL and analytical data warehouses. required
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
Experience applying prompt engineering techniques to improve accuracy and efficiency of AI-assisted solutions. required
Strong ability to prototype and iterate using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, or equivalent). required
2+ years hands-on experience with GCP platform and experience with many of the following components: Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, Dataflow, Data Fusion, Cloud Composer, DataProc, CI/CD, Cloud Logging, Vertex AI, NLP, GitHub
4+ Years of hands-on experience with many of the following components: Spark Streaming, Kafka, SQL, JSON, Avro, Parquet, Java, Python, or Scala
18+ months of hands-on experience with many of the following components: Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT, or equivalent) to accelerate engineering tasks
Preferred
Master's degree in computer science or related field preferred
1+ year(s) of experience in healthcare preferred
Certifications (a plus, but not required): GCP Cloud Professional Data Engineer
Benefits
Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
Colleague recognition program
Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
Company
HCA Healthcare
HCA Healthcare provides medical education and healthcare services in locally managed facilities. It is a sub-organization of North Florida Endoscopy Center.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
HCA Healthcare has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2022 (2)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.51B2025-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $3.25B
2025-02-24Post Ipo Debt· $5.25B
2014-06-25Post Ipo Debt· $3.2M
Leadership Team
Nicholas Manning
Chief Executive Officer
Nick Lane
Regional Vice President Human Resources
Recent News
Bizjournals.com Feed (2025-11-12 15:43:17)
2026-01-16
2026-01-16
2026-01-15
Company data provided by crunchbase