Senior Data Engineer (Remote)

Resp & Qualifications

COMPANY SUMMARY :

CareFirst, Inc., and its affiliated companies, generally referred to as CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst), is the Mid-Atlantic region’s largest private sector health insurer, serving the healthcare needs of 3.

5 million members in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and portions of northern Virginia. The Company offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to individuals and groups, as well as state and federal government sponsored plans.

With a market share almost three times that of the closest competitor, the company commands 45 percent penetration across the region.

In July 2018, Brian D. Pieninck assumed the role of President and CEO after serving as the company’s COO of Strategic Business Units and IT Division.

Under his leadership, the organization completed an extensive review of its operations and clinical programs, resulting in an expansive 3-year strategy to grow and diversify the company’s core business.

Along with a 5-year vision to drive the transformation of the healthcare experience across the continuum of its members, partners, and communities, the company has placed a renewed and intentional focus on fostering a mission-based culture, which drives every decision the company makes.

The organization employs over 5,600 full-time employees in Maryland, Northern Virginia, the District of Columbia, and West Virginia.

CareFirst has earned multiple workplace awards recognizing its leadership in diversity and inclusion, wellness engagement, and creation of a supportive and equitable work environment for all employees.

At CareFirst, you are part of an inspired, collaborative team that is building the healthcare experience we want for our families and our future.

Every day, we make a meaningful difference in the communities where we live and work.

We practice empathy, seek to understand, invest in inclusion, demand equity and nurture belonging every day for our employees and the communities we serve.

We rely on the rich diversity of our employees’ experiences and backgrounds to achieve our mission. Every year we host a Week of Equity and Action where we deepen our investment and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

During this week thousands of employees engage in workshops and volunteerism with the goal of bettering themselves and our community.

• Women make up around 70% of CareFirst’s employee population, and over 50% identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color).
• We have 9 resource groups that connect employees over shared identities (LGBTQ, veteran status, race, etc.) and passions (climate change, healthy living, leadership development).
• Employees are encouraged to give back and volunteer in their communities with their civic engagement hours.

As a not-for-profit, CareFirst regularly ranks among the most philanthropic organizations with $65 million invested in the community in 2020 to improve overall health, and increase the accessibility, affordability, safety, and quality of healthcare throughout its market area.

The company’s employees consistently add to this impact by devoting thousands of volunteer hours to numerous community organizations and social causes.

The company’s continued efforts to reinvest in community health care programs has repeatedly earned CareFirst regional accolades as a leading corporate philanthropist, including the No.

2 and No. 7 spots on the Baltimore Business Journal and Washington Business Journal’s 2019 list of top corporate givers, respectively.

Purpose :

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for orchestrating, deploying, maintaining and scaling cloud or on-premise infrastructure targeting big data and platform data management (Relational and NoSQL, distributed and converged) with emphasis on reliability, automation and performance.

This role will focus on developing solutions and helping transform the company's platforms deliver data-driven, meaningful insights and value to company.

Essential Functions :

• Develops and maintains infrastructure systems (e.g., data warehouses, data lakes) including data access APIs. Prepares and manipulates data using multiple technologies.
• 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.

Develops data models by studying existing data warehouse architecture; evaluating alternative logical data models including planning and execution tables;

applying metadata and modeling standards, guidelines, conventions, and procedures; planning data classes and sub-classes, indexes, directories, repositories, messages, sharing, replication, back-up, retention, and recovery.

• Creates data collection frameworks for structured and unstructured data.
• 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.

• Applies data extraction, transformation and loading techniques in order to connect large data sets from a variety of sources.
• Applies and implements best practices for data auditing, scalability, reliability and application performance.

QUALIFICATIONS :

Education Level : 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.

Experience :

• 5 years Experience with database design and developing modeling tools.
• Experience developing and updating ETL / ELT scripts. Hands-on experience with application development, relational database layout, development, data modeling.

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience working with Informatica.

Department

Department :

Equal Employment Opportunity

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.