Introduction
Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family. Jump-start your career as a Senior Software Engineer today with HCA Healthcare.
Benefits
HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
• 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. • 401k 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.
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Job Summary and Qualifications
Position Summary
This position is responsible for developing, testing, and deploying innovative technology and data products within the ITG Accelerated Technologies organization and DT&I. They will help us build platforms and services that enable our physicians and clinicians to provide world-class care for patients in our hospitals. Along with technical expertise, a candidate for this position should be comfortable designing and reasoning about complex distributed systems and working with AI for software development.
Major Responsibilities
This engineer can quickly learn, maintain, and pragmatically improve existing solutions as well as design new ones. They will provide key problem resolutions for production systems as needed. They have an in-depth understanding of the services provided by ITG Accelerated Technologies and DT&I and can develop relationships throughout the organization to assist in accomplishing its goals for the company. This engineer strategically designs, constructs, and implements software in a software development environment. This engineer is a highly motivated self-starter and is committed to delivering high-quality solutions within agreed-upon timelines. They are committed to engineering excellence and comfortable working in a fast-paced, complex environment. Strong application development skills are required using ReactJS, TypeScript, and Python. GCP experience is preferred. Experience with AI-assisted tooling such as GitHub Copilot, Lovable.dev, v0.dev, bolt.new, or other Vibe Coding tools is required. Experience with healthcare data and technology is preferred.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
• Build life-changing healthcare technology • Act as a technical expert within AT and project Integrations, including requirements gathering, design, development, and testing • Provide valuable insights in requirements validation and feasibility analysis with respect to AT • Design scalable distributed software • Clearly communicate software architecture in accordance with the C4 model • Estimate work effort required in delivering features, keeping AT capabilities in mind • Produce high-quality, modular, reusable code that incorporates coding best practices and serves as an example for less experienced developers • Design and execute DevOps strategies and processes, driving the change management that accompanies these types of transformative solutions • Design, build, and maintain automated deployment frameworks, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery • Escalate product issues and risks appropriately and collaborates on solutions • Possess deep knowledge and extensive experience in software design patterns • Produce and review enterprise-level system design documentation, including Use Cases, Software Architecture Documentation, Service Mapping, i.e., map service schema to backend source systems, Consumer Guide, i.e., end-user documentation and transition documentation to support the team • Create Service Level Agreements, stating the agreed-upon availability, uptime, maintenance windows, etc., for a Service and Supplementary Specifications, i.e., non-functional specifications • Ensure implementations are up to current standards for coding, naming, security, and versioning • Consult on and guide design of software solutions • Possess deep knowledge and experience with a variety of testing methodologies and drives the adoption of best practices • Possess excellent communication skills to interface with various stakeholders from business, consumer to technical staff • Research and become the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the interaction of the Service with source systems as well as interaction with the consumers, business users • Lead troubleshooting activities • Provide after-hours on-call support as needed • Mentor other engineers • Direct the performance of programming assignments within the department • Develop software development standards and frameworks • Work with Enterprise Architects on Technology Evaluation, Product Selection • Partner with managers in Contract Negotiation, Vendor Relations • Interview, Hiring, Performance Evaluation • Perform other duties as assigned
Practice and adhere to the Code of Conduct philosophy and Mission and Value Statement.
Education & Experience
• Bachelors Degree required • Masters Degree preferred • Work Experience in lieu of Degree considered • 5 Years Relevant Work Experience Required • Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Behaviors
• Technology Experience: 5 years of experience in most of the following • Experience with cloud development technologies, especially Google Cloud Platform • Strong proficiency in multiple programming languages, especially Python and SQL required • Data engineering experience, including architecture for ingesting, transforming, and feature engineering data elements used for data science and machine learning • Deep understanding of streaming and event-driven architectures • Strong understanding of best practices in the design of REST-based APIs • Nuanced understanding of distributed version control • Experience in data acquisition, data cleansing, and parsing required • Detailed understanding of DevOps practices and extensive experience with associated tools • Extensive experience and deep understanding of container-based platforms, such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Cloud Run • Understanding of data science concepts • SQL experience, database interrogation techniques • Linux command line skills • Scrum Agile Lean Product Development Domain Driven Design • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal • Experience and deep knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) • Healthcare experience preferable
Adaptability
• Treats change and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth • Focuses on the beneficial aspects of change and speaks positively about the change to others • Seeks to understand changes in work tasks, situations, and environment as well as the logic or basis for change • Demonstrates the ability to help others adapt to change and to personally adapt to various work environments
Strategic Working Relationship
• Builds relationships within the department and across multi-disciplinary teams to assist in facilitating discussions regarding data outputs and feedback on usage activities to improve AT impact
Adaptability - Expected Level of Competency
• Ability to network with corporate and field contacts • Frequent inter-departmental contact and presentations • Independently works with customers on an 11 basis as well as in teams
Working Standards
• Continues to refine development and analytical skills • Applies a consistent development approach to provide creative solutions to problems • Leads the design, construction, and implementation of software and analytics solutions in the data science engineering environment • Expands the organizational technical knowledge by providing mentoring to internal team and attending professional development opportunities
Freedom to Act, Independent Judgment
• Works independently with receiving minimal guidance • Acts as a team lead for multi-disciplinary projects • Acts as a mentor and provides direction to colleagues with less experience • Work is evaluated to ensure objectives are met • Exercises judgment in selecting and adapting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions • Contributes to designing standard practices and procedures required
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
The great hospitals will always put the patient and the patients family first, and the really great institutions will provide care with warmth, compassion, and dignity for the individual. - Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you are looking for an opportunity that provides satisfaction and personal growth, we encourage you to apply for our Senior Software Engineer opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities and apply today.
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At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.