Company Description

Accolade provides personalized health and benefits solutions designed to empower every person to live their healthiest life. We help millions of people and their employers navigate the complexities of the healthcare system with empathy, expertise and through exceptional service while supporting them in lowering the cost of care and improving health outcomes. Accolade blends technology-enabled health and benefits solutions, specialized support from Accolade Health Assistants® and Clinicians and access to expert medical opinion services for high-cost treatment decisions. We consistently receive consumer satisfaction ratings over 90 percent and have been recognized by Inc. Magazine as a Top Place to Work 2020 and Business Intelligence for Excellence in Customer Service 2020. Please visit us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and at accolade.com.

Role overview

The Software Engineer III (Data) is responsible for building and supporting our next generation of ETLT, big data, and machine learning based anomaly detection tools. As a developer on our data ingestion team you will be creating and enhancing products that provide Accolade teams and customers a way to quickly and conveniently on-board customer data into the Accolade Cloud Platform in a secure and scalable way with high data quality.

Job Description

A day in the life…

• Work with a small agile team to design and develop ETLT, Big Data, and machine learning implementations.
• Develop tools that allow teams to configure high performance, highly scalable ETLT pipelines using Apache Spark, Python, and AWS EMR.
• Use machine learning to implement near real time anomaly detection against data as it flow through our platform.
• Develop Java and Node based micro-services and lambdas as part of the Accolade Cloud Platform.
• Contribute to engineering best practices and help shape the future of our big data and technologies.
• Support internal customers of our ETLT and customer configuration tooling including researching and validating detected anomalies, failed pipelines, and monitor alarms.
• Interface with our internal users and product team to gather requirements and feedback.

Qualifications

What we are looking for…

• Minimum of 4 years of experience designing and building Big Data and ETLT products using cloud native solutions.
• You are a Python, Apache Spark, and SQL expert.
• Production experience building out scalable, secure, and performant ETLT pipelines.
• Production experience with cloud native Big Data.
• Experience with AWS and AWS EMR is a plus.
• Preferred experience with: Java, Machine Learning, Anomaly Detection, AWS: Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB.
• Desire and willingness to work in an Agile, collaborative, innovative, flexible, and team-oriented environment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Where permitted by applicable law, candidates must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered, if not currently employed by Accolade, Inc. The Company will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees with disabilities or for a sincerely held religious belief.
Please note that a request for exemption due to a personal preference not to receive a vaccine is not protected by law. All requests for exemptions from this mandate shall be directed to the Company recruiter who shall route the request to the Company’s human resources department.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.