Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Inovalon was founded in 1998 on the belief that technology, and data specifically, would empower the transformation of the entire healthcare ecosystem for the better, improving both outcomes and economics. At Inovalon, we believe that when our customers are successful in their missions, healthcare improves. Therefore, we focus on empowering them with data-driven solutions. And the momentum is building.

Together, as ONE Inovalon, we are a united force delivering solutions that address healthcare's greatest needs. Through our mission-based culture of inclusion and innovation, our organization brings value not just to our customers, but to the millions of patients and members they serve.

Overview: The Staff Software Development Engineer L5 works with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, has the ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design distributed systems that are resilient and secure at scale from inception;
• Raise the engineering bar on scale, resiliency, security fundamentals via technical leadership and engineering excellence;
• Discover, review, and influence new and evolving design, architecture, and standards for building and delivering unique services and solutions;
• Investigate, design, and implement best-in-industry, innovative technologies that will expand Inovalon's infrastructure through robust, scalable, adrenaline-fueled solutions;
• Champion the enterprise infrastructure vision and strategy;
• Be the expert in service reliability and sustainability;
• Develop and execute designs for complex systems backed by excellence, confidence, and thorough engineering analysis;
• Develop, gather, and leverage metrics to manage the server fleet and complex computing systems to drive automation, improvement, and performance;
• Take ownership of ensuring detailed design, analysis, testing, and optimization;
• Set direction/goals for the team regarding project impact, product quality and engineering efficiency;
• Lead major initiatives, projects, teams, rollouts and phased releases;
• Provide mentorship onboarding new team members and enabling successful ramp up;
• Collaborate with other engineers, services across Inovalon, and external customers to understand requirements, have tight feedback loop that is data driven;
• Adhere to all confidentiality, HIPAA, regulatory, and other such policies, procedures, and requirements as outlined within Employer's Operating Policies and Procedures in all ways and at all times with respect to any aspect of the data handled or services rendered in the scope of work.
• Maintain compliance with Inovalon's policies, procedures and mission statement, and fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 15 years of plus experience with Unix management, complex computing platforms, and/or cutting-edge technologies involving virtualization, distribution, and high performance computing;
• Strives to achieve excellence backed by strong architectural, system design, and automation experience;
• Technology experience required; Hive, Hbase, Sqoop, Ranger, NIFI - Other technologies good to have; Spark, Phoenix, Spring Batch, Accumulo, Falcon, Atlas;
• Experience engineering solutions on one of the major Hadoop distributions - Java scripting and application support experience strongly desired;
• Experience with virtualization technologies required and driven to solve difficult problems with scalable, elegant, and maintainable solutions;
• Expert and creative troubleshooter - unrelenting, persistent, confident;
• A penchant for thinking outside the box to solve complex and interesting problems;
• Extensive knowledge of existing industry standards, technologies, and infrastructure operations;
• Ability to manage stressful situations with calm, courtesy, and confidence;
• Experience building and shipping high quality work and achieving high reliability; and
• Experience improving stability through thoughtful code reviews, appropriate testing, proper rollout, monitoring, and proactive changes.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or Information Technology

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• Sedentary work (i.e. sitting for long periods of time).
• Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force.
• Subject to inside environmental conditions.
• Travel for this position will include less than 10% locally usually for training purposes.

The actual base pay offered may vary depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity. At Inovalon, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications listed in a job description. If you don't meet every qualification listed but are excited about our mission and the work described, we encourage you to apply regardless. Inovalon is most interested in finding the best candidate for the job and you may be just the right person for this or other roles.

By embracing diversity, equity and inclusion we enhance our work environment and drive business success. Inovalon strives to reflect the diversity of the communities where we operate and of our clients and everyone whom we serve. We endeavor to create a culture of inclusion in which our associates feel empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work and pursue their professional goals in an equitable setting. We understand that by fostering this type of culture, and welcoming different perspectives, we generate innovation and growth.

Inovalon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirement.

The Company maintains a drug free work environment for all of its associates, which includes employees, contractors and vendors. It is unlawful for associates to manufacture, sell, distribute, dispense, possess or use any controlled substance or marijuana in the workplace and doing so will result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment or the contracted relationship.

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