You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.

Position Purpose: As an Agile Metadata Analyst/Developer you will help build the future of Centene by creating metadata solutions to business problems such as identifying sensitive data and implementing comprehensive metadata repositories and catalogs, not only for traditional databases, but also for data lakes and NoSQL databases in support of Data Governance. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining metadata objects, harvesting metadata from source systems, creating lineage between business glossary terminology and physical metadata, customizing metadata repositories, building and maintaining interfaces between metadata tools and web applications

• Helps guide the design and implementation of complex data management procedures around data staging, data ingestion, data preparation, data provisioning, and data destruction (scripts, programs, automation, assisted by automation, etc.)
• Provides guidance to data engineers in the design, development, implementation, testing, documenting, and operating of large-scale, high-volume, high-performance data structures for business intelligence analytics
• Harvest, integrate and manage metadata content from many systems.
• Support metadata distribution and usage across the enterprise.
• Administer metadata tools such as repositories and information catalogs.
• Provide training and mentoring to Data Stewards and other metadata consumers.
• Maintain, upgrade and enhance the metadata environment
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Education/Experience: A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science).
Requires 4 - 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.

Technical Skills:

• Prior experience in metadata tools such as Alation, AWS Glue Catalog, Informatica Analyst, Informatica Metadata Manager, Sybase PowerDesigner, or Apache Atlas
• Ability to harvest and integrate metadata from numerous sources.
• Ability to create and manage business data glossaries.
• Experience creating or customizing metadata user interface components
• Experience with Big Data; Data Processing
• Experience with Other: diagnosing system issues, engaging in data validation, and providing quality assurance testing
• Experience with Data Manipulation; Data Mining
• Experience with Other: • Experience working in a production cloud infrastructure
• Experience with one or more of the following Java, Python,SQL

Preferred:

• Experience with the Alation Enterprise Data Catalog highly preferred.
• Experience with relational databases such as Postgres SQL, Oracle, SQL Server or Teradata.
• Experience with ETL processing tools such as Talend or Informatica.
• Scripting skills such as Oracle PLSQL or Teradata TSQL.
• Experience with BI development tools such as Microsoft's Power BI.
• Prior Healthcare experience and or Healthcare related metadata a plus.
• Experience creating Confluence or SharePoint sites, lists, and forms

Soft Skills:

• Intermediate - Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
• Intermediate - Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Intermediate - Ability to work independently
• Intermediate - Demonstrated analytical skills
• Intermediate - Demonstrated project management skills
• Intermediate - Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
• Intermediate - Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills

Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act