Job Description

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and operationalizing advanced cloud data pipelines to facilitate seamless data consumption for reports, advanced analytics, and AI initiatives. This role involves overseeing the entire data lifecycle, including data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality assurance. The Senior Data Engineer ensures the optimization and orchestration of data pipelines to handle high-volume and high-performance requirements effectively. Additionally, this role leads efforts in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), driving automation and deployment efficiency. The Senior Data Engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams to align data solutions with business needs, provide strategic insights, and mentor junior team members, all while upholding best practices and ensuring data integrity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science). (Required)
• 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. (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge

• Experience with big data; data processing and cloud technologies.
• Strong experience diagnosing system issues, engaging in data validation, and providing quality assurance testing.
• Experience with data manipulation; Data mining.
• Experience working in production cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with C#, Java, Python, SQL, and programming concepts.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure; Databricks or equivalent.
• Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to work independently.
• Demonstrated analytical and project management skills.
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
• Great verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate complex findings clearly.
• Ability to facilitate sessions and elicit ideas from others, understanding their issues and encouraging group participation.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and thrive in a dynamic environment.

Functional Accountabilities

• Guide the design and implementation of complex data management procedures around data staging, ingestion, preparation, and provisioning.
• Provide guidance in the design, development, implementation, testing, documentation, and preparation of large scale, high volume, high performance data structures for business intelligence analysts.
• Design, develop, and maintain real-time processing applications and data pipelines.
• Ensure quality of technical solutions as data moves across environments.
• Provide senior level knowledge and insight into the changing cloud data environment, data processing, data storage, and utilization requirements for the company.
• Develop, construct, test, and maintain architectures using advanced programming languages and tools.
• Drive improvements in data reliability, efficiency, and quality and deploy solutions; use data to discover tasks that can be automated.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.

Primary Location

Maryland-Silver Spring

Work Locations

Inventa Towers 1, Inventa Place, Silver Spring 20910

Job

Information Technology

Organization

Operations

Position Status: Regular - Full-Time

Shift: Day

Work Schedule: M-F, 8:30-5:00

Job Posting

Mar 13, 2025, 1:42:48 PM

Full-Time Salary Range

109116.8 - 181854.4

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law.