Lead Java Developer

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About Us

We are Health Catalyst, a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations. Our mission is to be the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement. We partner with health systems, hospitals, and other healthcare entities to help them use data to make smarter decisions, improve clinical outcomes, reduce costs, and enhance patient experience. Joining Health Catalyst means becoming part of a team dedicated to transforming healthcare through innovation, collaboration, and a relentless focus on value.

Job Summary:

As a manager, you will be working with diverse Improvement Apps, software engineering team designing, developing, and maintaining various platforms that serve internal HCAT team members, clinicians, and patients. You will rely on Test-Driven Development to safely enhance and refactor our system, shipping production code multiple times per week. And you will go to bed each night with the comfort that your code is improving outcomes for patients.

If you love…

Help drive clarity and prototype individual features or problems

Knowledge of architecture patterns and the ability to design and complete features / tasks that are 50-60% well defined.

Can discern where gaps can be filled in without consulting a Product Manager or another programmer and can judge when a consultation is needed.

Work is reviewed with the occasional need for material direction or implementation changes

Seeks and provides guidance via PR reviews, pair-programming and other interactions with Engineers and Product Managers

It is second nature to develop high code quality standards balanced with the needs of real-world customer timelines.

Possesses a passion and drive to deliver exceptional products and follows established patterns and approaches within existing code bases with ease.

Takes ownership of learning and growth

Capitalizes on internal and external opportunities for learning.

Identifies gaps in knowledge/skills and seeks ways to close those gaps (self-guided learning, pairing, seeking guidance for yourself and developing guidance for less experienced members of the team)

Periodic On Call Rotation

Ability to communicate with Customer Success about customer issues that are escalated to Engineering and help quantify customer impact.

Can Respond quickly to operational emergencies, find short term resolutions and plan long term fixes to avoid similar issues in the future.

What you own in the role:

• Lead a small team of developers and DevOps engineers, providing mentorship and technical guidance.
• Developing the complex module and guiding the junior developers
• Implement monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar tools.
• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to define project requirements and timelines.
• Filtering and “cleaning” data by reviewing reports and performance indicators to locate and correct code problems.
• Manage and automate deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD).
• Locating and defining new process improvement opportunities.

What you bring to this role:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of Java, Microservices, any frontend language such as react/angular
• Strong working knowledge of CI/CD
• Strong knowledge of and experience with GCP/Azure
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy, in a timely manner
• Adept at constructing efficient queries, writing reports and presenting findings
• Ability to manage multiple and simultaneous responsibilities and to prioritize scheduling of work
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• 7 to 8 years' work experience as a Java app developer
• BS or MS in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management, or a similar field
• An understanding of healthcare data is a plus, but not a requirement

You may also bring:

Experience with cloud infrastructure and architecture patterns, either Azure or AWS preferred.

Software development experience within healthcare IT and understands key data models (clinical, claims, financial, etc.) and interoperability standards such as HL7v2, CDA, EMR, and FHIR

Knowledge of healthcare compliance and how it applies to Application Security

Agile/Scrum software development practices

Business Intelligence or Data warehousing experience

Preferred Experience and Education:

BS/BA or MS in Computer science, information systems, or other technology/science degree.

A minimum of 7 – 8 years of experience in building commercial software, SaaS, or digital platforms.

**Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental principle at Health Catalyst, where employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualification without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, citizenship status, marital status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.. Health Catalyst is committed to a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. **