The Aspen Group (TAG) is one of the largest and most trusted retail healthcare business support organizations in the U.S. and has supported over 16,000 healthcare professionals and team members at more than 1,200 health and wellness offices across 46 states in four distinct categories: Dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. Working in partnership with independent practice owners and clinicians, the team is united by a single purpose: to prove that healthcare can be better and smarter for everyone. TAG provides a comprehensive suite of centralized business support services that power the impact of five consumer-facing businesses: Aspen Dental, ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, WellNow Urgent Care, Chapter Aesthetic Studio, and AZPetVet. Each brand has access to a deep community of experts, tools and resources to grow their practices, and an unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality consumer healthcare experiences at scale.

Our continued growth has created an opportunity to join our IT Team as a Lead Data Engineer - Patient Financing.

As a lead data engineer, you will join one of our teams focused on a core business domain. You will work alongside developers modernizing our legacy systems by developing new software and services using cloud-native GCP technologies. Our stack uses Microsoft .NET (7), and Python, using advanced SQL and NoSQL data layers on Kubernetes operating as an active-active multi-region solution.

This role needs both development and data skills, working with google looker and modern data

technologies supporting the team’s data analytics for our platform. The team has several business-critical systems that we are enhancing with real-time analytics. In this role you will operate

a bridge between the core data engineering and the development teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with developers on designing and implementing our modern cloud architecture.
• Lead data analytics and software development with team designing, developing and deploying APIs following our best practices.
• Work with data engineering on bringing modern data technologies into the development team practices.
• Help drive data analytics and data modeling and build data pipelines and dashboards.
• Troubleshoot critical issues in a production environment when needed.
• Contribute innovative ideas to improve software practices and processes for our platform.
• Contribute and help manage the development and software rollout process.
• Work independently and make sound technical decisions with and without guidance.

Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or higher with 6+ years of hands-on experience.
• Strong technical expertise, people skills, and excellent communication skills
• Experience with modern DevOps and owning deploying code to production as needed.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented programming and common design patterns.
• Strong understanding of unit testing principles and approaches.
• Experience building micro-services with modern Python and data pipeline development.
• Experienced with SQL, ideally SQL Server or PostgreSQL, and NoSQL data solutions.
• Experience with dealing with the security and compliance side of software development.
• Experienced with owning quality and best practices in automation and testing.
• Experienced with building out and maintaining metrics, alarms, and monitoring services.
• Data engineering, data analysis, data pipeline, and metrics creation skills

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