We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate. We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways. At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters. Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today! The Technology Business Engineer administers and supports the Apptio platform, data integrations, cost models, allocation logic, reporting, and data-quality controls. The role maintains recurring platform processing, troubleshoots model and data issues, and implements approved enhancements.
The engineer works with the Technology Business Manager, FinOps, Finance, source-system owners, and technology stakeholders to deliver reliable, traceable, and decision-ready technology cost information.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
This job description is a summary of the primary duties and responsibilities of the job and position. It is not intended to be a comprehensive or all-inclusive listing of duties and responsibilities. Contents are subject to change at the company's discretion.
Education- Required - Bachelor's Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Preferred - Master's
Work Experience- Required - 10+ years Data engineering or related technical experience. Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise data engineering solutions, including cloud-based architectures (Azure, AWS) and modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks) across complex, multi-domain environments. Strong background in Infrastructure security, Role based access controls, data governance, and cross-system integration. Strong experience in developing and implementing engineering standards, best practices, and continuous improvement across the data engineering function.
- Preferred - 10+ years experience in platform engineering and FinOps, data analytics, and visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI and Sigma. Building data products, semantic models and/or AI Agents
Preferred Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Master's degree in Information Systems, Analytics, Finance, or a related field.
- Experience in enterprise application administration, financial systems, data integration, business intelligence, IT financial management, or technology cost modeling.
- Experience operating data ingestion, transformation, reconciliation, reporting, and controlled production processes.
- Knowledge of general-ledger data, budgets, forecasts, cost centers, accounts, cost pools, allocation, and total-cost-of-ownership concepts.
- Advanced spreadsheet, data-transformation, query, reporting, and technical-documentation skills.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex data, model, access, processing, and reporting issues.
- Hands-on experience with Apptio administration, Cost Transparency, Planning, data ingestion, allocation modeling, reporting, or a comparable platform.
- Apptio product certification, preferably at hire or within 12 months.
- Certified Technology Business Management Executive or equivalent TBM credential.
- Data integration, business intelligence, or cloud-platform certification.
- FinOps Certified Practitioner.
- Knowledge of TBM taxonomy, Apptio data architecture, integration patterns, access controls, and data-quality practices.
Key Responsibilities- Administer Apptio environments, configuration, user access, roles, permissions, schedules, and operational settings.
- Operate and monitor recurring data ingestion, transformation, validation, calculation, and publishing processes.
- Maintain cost models, allocation rules, mappings, hierarchies, reference data, assumptions, and approved business logic.
- Reconcile source-system totals with Apptio inputs and outputs and document exceptions, corrections, approvals, and supporting evidence.
- Monitor completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency, validity, duplication, and referential integrity of financial and operational data.
- Troubleshoot failed loads, calculation errors, mapping issues, model defects, access problems, and reporting discrepancies.
- Build and maintain approved dashboards, reports, views, filters, metrics, and distribution processes.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, variance, cost transparency, application costing, service costing, and showback reporting cycles.
- Maintain integrations with financial, procurement, human resources, project, time, asset, configuration, cloud, application, and service data sources.
- Implement approved enhancements through controlled development, testing, documentation, release, and rollback practices.
- Support Apptio upgrades, feature releases, regression testing, issue remediation, and production readiness.
- Maintain data dictionaries, mapping specifications, model diagrams, operating procedures, runbooks, support records, and change history.
- Provide user support, access administration, reporting assistance, issue triage, and knowledge transfer.
- Align Cloudability data, cost allocations, ownership mappings, and cloud reporting with the enterprise TBM model.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)- Thought leadership and enterprise-level problem solving.
- Ability to influence executive stakeholders and guide organizational direction.
- Expertise in translating complex technical concepts for business audiences.
- Strong mentoring ability and passion for building engineering talent.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to design for long-term scalability and value.
- Proven expertise in leading data and anlytics modernization initiatives to minimize data and process duplication and redundancies.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven capability in ETL/ELT design, streaming data pipelines, workflow orchestration, and DevOps practices (version control, CI/CD).
- Demonstrated leadership in technical strategy, technology evaluation, and Innovation.
- Deep expertise in Cloud Databases, Advanced SQL, Data modelling, Medallion data architectures, and complex data model design.
Job Duties- Designs enterprise-scale data platforms and solutions leveraging cloud ecosystems (Azure, AWS) and modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks).
- Evaluates and implements emerging technologies, including AI/ML capabilities, to enhance data products and deliver measurable business value and innovation.
- Applies expert-level knowledge of data systems, cloud architectures, big data platforms, streaming technologies, orchestration tools, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Optimizes data ecosystems by simplifying integration patterns, improving performance, and eliminating redundancy.
- Communicates and negotiates technical direction with executive leadership.
- Ensures data quality, accessibility, and security through solid engineering practices and collaboration with architects and data stewards.
- Champions data security, governance, and compliance through implementation of role-based access controls and enterprise policies.
- Drives engineering excellence through quality first practices, performance optimization, and process improvement initiatives.
- Partners with cross functional stakeholders to shape data strategy, roadmaps, and high impact solutions that enable actionable insights at scale.
- Leads design of resilient, secure, and highly available engineering solutions across the full technology stack.
- Mentors and guides engineering teams, serving as a subject matter expert and elevating technical capability across the organization.
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Complies with all policies and standards
The above statements describe the general nature and level of work only. They are not an exhaustive list of all required responsibilities, duties, and skills. Other duties may be added, or this description amended at any time.
Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.
This employer maintains and complies with its Compliance & Privacy Program and Standards of Conduct, including the immediate reporting of any known or suspected unethical or questionable behaviors or conduct; patient/employee safety, patient privacy, and/or other compliance-related concerns. The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Physical and Environmental DemandsThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Sedentary Work- Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (occasionally means activity or conditions exist up to 1/3 of the work day), and/or, a negligible amount of force frequently (frequently means activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the work day) to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Normal routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid or tissue and as part of their employment, incumbents are not called upon to perform or assist in emergency care or first aid.
The incumbent has no occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases .
Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.
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