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CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield · 1 day ago

Lead Data Engineer - (Hybrid)

Reston, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$114K/yr - $226K/yr

8+ years exp

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is a healthcare organization seeking a Lead Data Engineer responsible for orchestrating, deploying, maintaining, and scaling cloud or on-premise infrastructure for big data and platform data management. The role involves leading the development of solutions that deliver data-driven insights and overseeing engineering data initiatives and projects.

Health CareNon ProfitService Industry

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead the team to design, configure, implement, monitor, and manage all aspects of Data Integration Framework. Defines and develop the Data Integration best practices for the data management environment of optimal performance and reliability

Develops and maintains infrastructure systems (e.g., data warehouses, data lakes) including data access APIs. Prepares and manipulates data using Hadoop or equivalent MapReduce platform

Provides detailed guidance and performs work related to Modeling Data Warehouse solutions in the cloud OR on-premise. Understands Dimensional Modeling, De-normalized Data Structures, OLAP, and Data Warehousing concepts

Oversees the delivery of engineering data initiatives and projects. Supports long term data initiatives as well as Ad-Hoc analysis and ELT/ETL activities. Creates data collection frameworks for structured and unstructured data. Applies data extraction, transformation and loading techniques in order to connect large data sets from a variety of sources

Enforces the implementation of best practices for data auditing, scalability, reliability and application performance. Develop and apply data extraction, transformation and loading techniques in order to connect large data sets from a variety of sources

Interprets data, analyzes results using statistical techniques, and provides ongoing reports. Executes quantitative analyses that translate data into actionable insights. Provides analytical and data-driven decision-making support for key projects. Designs, manages, and conducts quality control procedures for data sets using data from multiple systems

Improves data delivery engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies

Qualification

ETL/ELT solutionsData modelingCloud infrastructureSQLNoSQLData integrationAnalytical skillsProblem-solving skillsCommunication skillsOrganizational skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Engineering or related field OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience

8 years Experience in leading data engineering and cross functional team to implement scalable and fine-tuned ETL/ELT solutions for optimal performance

Experience developing and updating ETL/ELT scripts

Hands-on experience with application development, relational database layout, development, data modeling

Knowledge and understanding of at least one programming language (i.e., SQL, NoSQL, Python)

Knowledge and understanding of database design and implementation concepts

Knowledge and understanding of data exchange formats

Knowledge and understanding of data movement concepts

Strong technical and analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot to solve a variety of problems

Requires strong organizational and communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to handle multiple priorities

Able to effectively provide direction to and lead technical teams

Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence

Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging