Job#: 2020376

Job Description:
Title: Senior Data Engineer
Duration: 6 month contract, possibility to extend
Location: 100% Remote
Job Description:
Do you want to impact decisions to help people live healthier lives? Are you an innovative Data Engineer who thrives on developing new solutions to solve tough challenges?
We want to achieve more in our mission of health care, and so we have to be really smart about the business of health care. At our large healthcare client, were changing the landscape of our industry. You will put your Data Engineering skills to work as you empower business partners and team members improve healthcare delivery. You will research cutting edge big data tools, and design innovative solutions to solve business problems that only a Data Engineer can. Youll be in the drivers seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. And we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel that mission.
You will be part of the team who is focused on building a cutting-edge data analytics platform to support reporting requirements for the business. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be responsible for the development of complex data sources and pipelines into our data platform (i.e. Snowflake) along with other data applications (i.e. Azure, Airflow, etc.) and automation.
This is a fully remote role based in the United States. Your counterpart team is located in Dublin, Ireland office. While there is no requirement to work in shift hours, there might be an occasional call with Dublin team which can require flexible working.
Primary Responsibilities:
Create & maintain data pipelines using Azure & Snowflake as primary tools
Create SQL Stored procs, Macros to perform complex transformation
Creating logical & physical data models to ensure data integrity is maintained
CI CD pipeline creation & automation using GIT & GIT Actions
Tuning and optimizing data processes
Design and build best in class processes to clean and standardize data
Code Deployments to production environment, troubleshoot production data issues
Modelling of big volume datasets to maximize performance for our BI & Data Science Team
Create Docker images for various applications and deploy them on Kubernetes
Required Qualifications:
Computer Science bachelors degree or similar
Min 3-6 years of industry experience as a Hands-on Data engineer
Excellent communication skills
Excellent knowledge of SQL, Python
Excellent knowledge of Azure Services such as - Blobs, Functions, Azure Data Factory, Service Principal, Containers, Key Vault etc.
Excellent knowledge of Snowflake - Architecture, best practices
Excellent knowledge of Data warehousing & BI Solutions
Excellent Knowledge of change data capture (CDC), ETL, ELT, SCD etc.
Knowledge of CI CD Pipelines using GIT & GIT Actions
Knowledge of different data modelling techniques such as Star Schema, Dimensional models, Data vault
Hands on experience on the following technologies:
o Developing data pipelines in Azure & snowflake
o Writing complex SQL queries
o Building ETL/ELT/data pipelines using SCD logic
o Exposure to Kubernetes and Linux containers (i.e. Docker)
o Related/complementary open-source software platforms and languages (e.g. Scala, Python, Java, Linux)
Previous experience with Relational Databases (RDBMS) & Non- Relational Database
Analytical and problem-solving experience applied to a Big Data datasets
Good understanding of Access control and Data masking
Experience working in projects with agile/scrum methodologies and high performing team(s)
Exposure to DevOps methodology
Data warehousing principles, architecture and its implementation in large environments
Very good understanding of integration with Tableau
Preferred Qualifications:
Design and build data pipelines (in Spark) to process terabytes of data
Very good understanding of Snowflake integration with data visualization tool such as Tableau
Orchestrate in Airflow the data tasks to run on Kubernetes/Hadoop for the ingestion, processing and cleaning of data
Terraform knowledge and automation
Create real-time analytics pipelines using Kafka / Spark Streaming
Work on Proof of Concepts for Big Data and Data Science
Understanding of United States Healthcare data
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