Summary
As a Cloud Data Engineer, you will be developing and maintaining scalable data pipelines in Snowflake. You will collaborate with business data analysts, data architects, data scientists, project managers, and G.E.H.A’s business stakeholders to build solutions that ensure seamless data flow and enable actionable insights. This role supports data development and maintenance efforts of the Data & Analytics activities and initiatives in alignment with the Enterprise Data strategy, policies, and organizational goals. This role will work in a cloud-native environment to design and optimize data solutions that improve performance, scalability, and efficiency of our data and analytics offerings.
Duties
- Proven experience as a Cloud Data Engineer or similar role, specifically working with Azure or Snowflake.
- Design and Build Data Pipelines: Develop scalable, efficient, and secure ETL/ELT pipelines for ingesting, processing, storing, and consuming large datasets in Snowflake.
- Cloud Data Architecture: Design and implement data solutions on Snowflake to support analytics, business intelligence, and data science initiatives.
- Data Integration & Transformation: Use enterprise approved ETL/ELT tools and methodologies to automate data ingestion and transformation from various sources into Snowflake.
- Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including business data analysts, data architects, data scientists, project managers and business units, to define data requirements and implement data solutions that support documented and approved business goals.
- With minimal guidance, work independently on assigned stories/tasks and deploy data solution through environments to Production using the approved Change Management process.
- Data Security, Governance & Compliance: Implement data solutions that follow best practices and the company policies to ensure data privacy, security, and compliance with relevant governance in the cloud environment.
- Automation and Monitoring: Implement and manage automated monitoring and logging for all data workflows and pipelines to ensure data integrity and operational reliability.
- Troubleshooting and Support: Troubleshoot issues with data pipelines, data integrity, and platform performance, providing timely resolutions to business-critical data needs.
- Ensure that all deliverables follow the company Change Management process.
- Participate in scrum, backlog grooming, refinement, planning and review sessions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field or comparable experience.
Experience Requirements
- Requires 3-5 years of relevant technical or business work experience with demonstrated experience within healthcare industry or data and analytics
- Direct experience with Snowflake (preferred) or an equivalent cloud data platform.
- Proficiency in SQL and valuable experience with writing complex queries, stored procedures, and managing large datasets.
- Solid understanding of Data Warehouse concepts, database management systems (SQL and NoSQL), and ETL/ELT frameworks, ideally in Snowflake or equivalent data platform.
- Competent SQL skills or equivalent such Python, R, Apache Spark etc.
- Familiarity with DevOps practices, Repos, Snowflake, and CI/CD pipelines for data solutions.
- Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment and communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Good understanding of Agile and Scrum processes.
- Experience & eagerness for problem solving and root cause analysis for any issues.
- Enthusiastic to learn innovative technologies & techniques; eagerness towards understanding data & business processes to contribute & have influence.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Prior knowledge or willingness to learn healthcare and analytics industries
Preferred Qualifications
Preferred fundamentals certification in Snowflake or comparable cloud platform or technology.
GEHA is an Equal Employment Opportunity and/or Affirmative Action employer, which means we will not discriminate against any individual based on sex, race, color, national origin, disability, religion, age, military status, genetic information, veteran status, pregnancy, marital status, gender identity, and sexual orientation, as well as all other characteristics and qualities protected by federal, state, or local law. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
