Veterinary Practice Partners is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team Full-Time!
Summary:
Veterinary Practice Partners’ (“VPP”) Data & Analytics team brings quantitative, analytical visibility to accelerate the performance of our partner veterinary hospitals. In this role, you will build an exceptional data capability that transforms the way our partner hospitals operate and raises the bar for what the veterinary industry can expect from its analytics. In addition to outstanding technical expertise, leaderships skills, and strategic thinking, you must have an insatiable drive to build, scale, and maintain best-in-class data infrastructure in a complex business environment. You must get energy from partnering with each of our business functions to radically advance the way VPP collects, surfaces, and acts on information.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Pipeline Development: Define and execute processes needed to develop, test, deploy, and maintain high quality data pipelines. Oversee the end-to-end development of data pipelines from source data extraction through to production-grade analytical dataset delivery, ensuring data quality and security throughout the pipeline.
- Performance Optimization: Continuously monitor and optimize data processing performance and efficiency. Identify and address bottlenecks, optimize query performance, and improve overall system stability.
- Data Governance: Establish and enforce data quality management policies, data access controls, and data privacy standards.
- Technical Leadership: Stay abreast of the latest developments in engineering tools and best practices. Provide guidance to the team about technical challenges.
- Strategy Creation: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define the data engineering strategy aligned to business objectives, including data modeling that unifies data assets across a range of source systems used to manage the operations of our partnering hospitals.
- Documentation: Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation of data pipelines, architecture, and processes to ensure knowledge sharing and team continuity.
- Third-party Management: Evaluate and manage relationships with third-party vendors and tools, making informed decisions about when to leverage external solutions.
Salary
The salary range for this position starts at $120,000 based on experience and skill set.
Qualifications
- 3+ years in data engineering roles in a production environment
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL for data engineering
- Up-to-date knowledge of and 1+ years of experience using Databricks for Lakehouse management
- Deep understanding of data modeling, data architecture, and data integration best practices
- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark
- Familiarity with data governance, security, and privacy principles
- Comfort using git or equivalent to manage the software development life cycle
- Exceptional ability to learn and use new software development techniques and tools
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- High energy, humble team player with “get it done” attitude, seeking collaboration with colleagues
Ideal Candidates will Possess:
- Experience with the Azure cloud ecosystem
- Experience developing production-ready, real-time machine learning model serving pipelines
- Comfort developing in the Apache Spark Structured Streaming paradigm
- Experience working in a private equity-backed services company
- Experience deploying machine learning models with MLFlow or equivalent
- Experience developing CI/CD pipelines
Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- The employee must be able to remain in a stationary position at least 50% of the The employee needs to occasionally move about home office to access office machinery, stationary tools, etc.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. Hearing and visual acuity are also required.
- The employee will constantly be operating a computer and other office
- The employee may occasionally be required to lift and or move up to 10lbs by
Company Description:
Based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, Veterinary Practice Partners (VPP) is a nationwide veterinary community revolutionizing vet practice ownership and support. With an expansive network of doctor partners and co-owned animal hospitals and clinics nationwide, VPP has become an established partner of choice. Through its co-ownership model, VPP provides operational support across learning and development, HR, recruiting, marketing, technology, and finance, enabling veterinarians to focus on providing high-quality patient care and foster a strong culture at their individual practices. VPP has over 155 (and counting) partner hospitals with 2,500+ employees and continued growth. VPP is a dynamic, profitable, growth company with strong financial private equity backing. For more information on Veterinary Practice Partners, visit www.vetpracticepartners.com.
Notes:
Reasonable accommodation may be made to perform the essential functions.
- This job description describes the ideal candidate for this position and in no way implies
- any limits to a person’s desire to apply.
- To meet the needs of the company, employees may be assigned other duties, in addition to or in lieu of those described
- Any duties are subject to change at any
- This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” relationship.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Veterinary Practice Partners (VPP) provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any legally protected characteristic.
