What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Engineer position at University of California - Los Angeles Health?
We're seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our team! In this role you will:
- Design and build scalable data pipelines and platforms that integrate complex enterprise and external data sources.
- Develop trusted data products, curated datasets, and reusable data models supporting reporting, analytics, data science, machine learning, and AI.
- Engineer solutions across clinical, operational, financial, research, and administrative healthcare data.
- Advance cloud-based data capabilities using Azure, Databricks, lakehouse architectures, enterprise data warehousing, and ML-ready data.
- Apply modern engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, orchestration, monitoring, observability, and production support.
- Optimize data solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, security, and usability.
- Establish standards and reusable frameworks for data modeling, metadata, governance, data quality, security, and engineering.
- Develop technical architecture, data lineage, data dictionaries, runbooks, and other documentation supporting reliable enterprise data operations.
- Partner across technology and business teams to translate complex requirements into scalable, sustainable data solutions.
- Lead technical design and architecture discussions and help define implementation and operational support approaches for strategic initiatives.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, workshops, and knowledge sharing.
Salary Range: $108,900.00 - $241,500.00 annually
Salary offers are based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and internal equity. The University anticipates offering a salary between the minimum and midpoint of this range.
5 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, backend engineering, analytics engineering, or related technical roles.
Strong programming experience with Python, including the ability to write clean, modular, maintainable, and production-quality code.
Solid understanding of data warehousing, ETL/ELT design patterns, dimensional modeling, data lake/lakehouse concepts, and large-scale data processing.
Experience designing and building data pipelines that ingest, transform, validate, and publish data from multiple source systems.
Experience working with modern data platforms such as Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or similar technologies.
Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP. Microsoft Azure experience is especially valuable.
Experience with orchestration and pipeline execution tools such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks Workflows, Airflow, or similar platforms.
Experience with production engineering practices such as Git-based development, CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, logging, monitoring, and release management.
Experience with machine learning data workflows, feature engineering, feature stores, ML-ready datasets, MLflow, MLOps, or AI/GenAI-supporting data infrastructure including RAG based systems.
Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including architects, analysts, data scientists, product managers, business teams, and application owners.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions clearly and document solutions for long-term maintainability.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field. A master's degree is a plus.
University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy.
Salary : $108,900 - $241,500