Data Engineer

Job ID Number

R4203

Employment Type

Full time

Worksite Flexibility

Remote

Job Summary

As the Data Engineer, you will take the lead in providing complex application development services in the client's Google Cloud Platform environment.

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our team for a 6-month contract opportunity that is full time and fully remote . The selected candidate will take the lead in providing complex application development services in the client's Google Cloud Platform environment, typically as part of a project team or in an application support role. The selected candidate will analyze, design, code, test and implement more complex systematic solutions. They also provide general support to maintain more complex applications that meet the service levels, system availability, performance and quality levels required.

What You'll Do

• Takes a lead role for analyzing, designing, coding, testing and implementing more complex application enhancements, as well as providing general production support, meeting defined scope, target dates and budgets with minimal or no defects.

• Utilize and participate in the more complex full system development life cycle, per current Highmark SDLC standards.

• Take a lead role in collaborating with customers, business analysts, partners, and IT team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions.

• Concentrate on providing innovative solutions to more complex business needs.

• Perform work in compliance with all Highmark and Highmark IT standards, policies and procedures.

• Actively take a leading role and participates on project teams in various project roles, including, but not limited to, Developer, Technical Lead and Project Manager, based upon level of experience.

• Effectively communicate with team members, customers, partners and management, including assisting with or conducting more complex technical walkthroughs, reporting project status, enabling vendor solutions and providing accurate and concise documentation.

• Other duties as assigned or requested.

What You'll Need

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related field

• 5 years of experience as a developer

• 3 years of experience in Databricks technology and be experienced in working with Databricks notebooks, clusters, and jobs. They should be able to optimize and troubleshoot Databricks workflows.

• Deep understanding of Spark and its core concepts

• Proficient in Spark programming Python, Pyspark

• Strong data engineering skills, including experience with data ingestion (batch and streaming), data transformation, and data quality validation.

• Familiar with ETL and have hands-on experience with data pipelines and data orchestration tools

• Expertise with GCP, including services like Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Dataflow

• Problem solving, root cause analysis, and issue resolution

• Demonstrated leadership skills

• Experience in Healthcare or Health Insurance Industry

• Experience with Databricks, GCP, application development tools, business processes, software development life cycle used by Highmark enterprise

Preferred

• Master's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or closely related field

• 5 years of experience as a developer with demonstrated skills in: Databricks and Python/Pyspark

• GCP: Big Query and PostgreSQL

• Certifications such as Python, Databricks, GCP

Physical Demands

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state and local standards

• Sedentary work that involves sitting or remaining stationary most of the time with occasional need to move around the office to attend meetings, etc.

• Ability to conduct repetitive tasks on a computer, utilizing a mouse, keyboard and monitor

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