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Senior Data Engineer

AT CVS Health
CVS Health

Senior Data Engineer

Irving, TX

At CVS Health, we're building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.As the nation's leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues - caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.Position Summary:

If you're eager to make a real impact in the health care industry through your own meaningful contributions, explore a role in technology with CVS Health. Our journey calls for technical innovators and data visionaries: come help us pave the way.

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At CVS Health, we possess an extensive repository of healthcare data that spans over 150 million individuals, providing an unparalleled foundation for ambitious Data Engineers. In this role, you will engage with complex business challenges, harnessing modern tools and technologies to securely store, process, transform, and enrich terabyte to petabyte scale healthcare data. Your work will underpin data-driven business decisions and contribute to our mission of delivering industry-best data products / software with a customer-first mindset and team-oriented approach.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and maintaining optimal data pipelines to assemble large and intricate datasets, catering to the business requirements of various CVS lines of business. Collaborating closely with teams, you will craft tools to provide actionable insights and integrate them with consumer touchpoints.

In this role, you will:
  • Design, develop, and optimize data pipelines on GCP using DAGs, BigQuery, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub
  • Ensure data integrity, governance, and security best practices in the data pipeline.
  • Optimize performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of data solutions.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to deliver end-to-end data products.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for data pipelines and services.
  • Participates in agile or other development methodologies, attends meetings, contributes to project planning, and helps drive the progress and success of digital projects.
  • Explores new tools, frameworks, and techniques to improve digital solutions and drive innovation within the development team.
  • Creates and maintains technical documentation, including system designs, architecture diagrams, code documentation, and other relevant documentation while sharing their knowledge and expertise with team members, ensuring effective knowledge transfer and collaboration.
  • Work on GCP Performance & Cost Optimization Initiatives
  • Understand the Medicaid business and QNXT data in depth.
  • Work on Data Engineering excellence initiatives like EMU migration, Observability
As leaders in healthcare, our analytics and engineering teams deliver innovative solutions to business problems by collaborating with cross-functional teams in a dynamic and agile environment. You will be part of a team that values collaboration and encourages innovative thinking at all levels. You will be intellectually challenged to solve problems associated with large scale complex, structured and unstructured data, which will allow you to grow your technical skills and engineering expertise.Required Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of experience with SQL, NoSQL
  • 5+ years of experience with Python (or a comparable scripting language)
  • 5+ years of experience with Data warehouses (such as data modeling and technical architectures) and infrastructure components
  • 5+ years of experience with ETL/ELT and building high-volume data pipelines.
  • 5+ years of experience with reporting/analytic tools
  • 5+ years of experience with Query optimization, data structures, transformation, metadata, dependency, and workload management
  • 5+ years of experience with Big data and cloud architecture
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience building modern data pipelines within a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • 5+ years of experience with deployment/scaling of apps on containerized environment (i.e., Kubernetes, AKS)
  • 5+ years of experience with real-time and streaming technology (i.e., Azure Event Hubs, Azure Functions, Kafka, Spark Streaming)
  • 2+ year(s) of soliciting complex requirements and managing relationships with key stakeholders.
  • 2+ year(s) of experience independently managing deliverables.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in designing and building data engineering solutions in cloud environments (preferably GCP)
  • Experience with Git, CI/CD pipeline, and other DevOps principles/best practices
  • Experience with bash shell scripts, UNIX utilities & UNIX Commands
  • Understanding of software development methodologies including waterfall and agile.
  • Ability to leverage multiple tools and programming languages to analyze and manipulate data sets from disparate data sources.
  • Knowledge of API development
  • Experience with complex systems and solving challenging analytical problems.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills within and across teams
  • Knowledge of data visualization and reporting
  • Experience with schema design and dimensional data modeling
  • Google Professional Data Engineer Certification
  • Knowledge of microservices and SOA
  • Formal SAFe and/or agile experience. Previous healthcare experience and domain knowledge
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining data processing systems.
  • Experience architecting and building data warehouse and data lakes.
Education:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, or related field required. Master's Degree preferred. Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:$92,700.00 - $185,400.00This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.Great benefits for great peopleWe take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits - investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:
  • Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
  • No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
  • Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.
For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefitsWe anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 03/26/2025Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

Client-provided location(s): Irving, TX, USA
Job ID: CVS-R0516496
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program