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Children's National Health System

Senior Data Engineer

Children's National Health System, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, 20900


Description The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and operationalizing advanced cloud data pipelines to facilitate seamless data consumption for reports, advanced analytics, and AI initiatives. This role involves overseeing the entire data lifecycle, including data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality assurance. The Senior Data Engineer ensures the optimization and orchestration of data pipelines to handle high-volume and high-performance requirements effectively. Additionally, this role leads efforts in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), driving automation and deployment efficiency. The Senior Data Engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams to align data solutions with business needs, provide strategic insights, and mentor junior team members, all while upholding best practices and ensuring data integrity. Qualifications

Minimum EducationBachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science). (Required)

Minimum Work ExperienceRequires deep functional knowledge with 6+ years of related experience or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position. (Required)

Required Skills/KnowledgeExperience with big data; data processing and cloud technologies.Strong experience diagnosing system issues, engaging in data validation, and providing quality assurance testing.Experience with data manipulation; Data mining.Experience working in production cloud infrastructure.Experience with C# (programming language); Java (programming language); Programming concepts; Programming tools; Python (Programming Language); SQL (programming language).Knowledge of Microsoft Azure; Databricks or equivalent.Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.Ability to work independently.Demonstrated analytical skills.Demonstrated project management skills.Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision-making skills.Great verbal and written communication skills, communicate complex findings in a clear and understandable mannerGreat facilitation ability to host sessions and elicit ideas from others, understanding their issues and encourage group participationAttention to detail.Communicate complex findings in a clear and understandable mannerCollaborate effectively with cross-functional teamsAdapt to changing priorities and thrive in a dynamic environment

Functional AccountabilitiesHelps guide the design and implementation of complex data management procedures around data staging, data ingestion, data preparation, data provisioning, data destruction, (scripts, programs automation, assisted by automation etc.)

Provides guidance to data engineering in the design, development, implementation, testing, documentation, and preparation of large scale, high volume, high performance data structures for business intelligence analysts.

Designs, develops and maintains real time processing applications and real time data pipelines.

Ensure quality of technical solutions as data moves across environments.

Provides senior level knowledge and insight into the changing cloud data environment, data processing, data storage, and utilization requirements for the company and drives the team toward viable solutions.

Develops, constructs, tests, and maintains architectures using advanced programming languages and tools.

Drives ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality and deploys a solution; use data to discover tasks that can be automated.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Complies with all policies and standards.

Organizational AccountabilitiesAnticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met

Teamwork/CommunicationDemonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior

Partner with all team members to achieve goals

Receptive to others' ideas and opinions

Performance Improvement/Problem-solvingContribute to a positive work environment

Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change

Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes

Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment

Cost Management/Financial ResponsibilityUse resources efficiently

Search for less costly ways of doing things

SafetySpeak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance

Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation

Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation

Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication

Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers

Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performancePrimary Location: Maryland-Silver Spring Work Locations: Inventa Towers 1 Inventa Place Silver Spring 20910 Job: Information Technology Organization: Operations Position Status: R (Regular) - FT - Full-Time Shift: Day Work Schedule: 8-5 Job Posting: Nov 12, 2024, 2:39:12 PM Full-Time Salary Range: 109116.8 - 181854.4