Enterprise Analytics Data Engineer II

Job Summary
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VCU Health is a leading academic health system that values data as a critical asset for improving patient care and operations. The Data Engineer will build scalable data solutions, ensuring data quality and integrity while collaborating with various stakeholders to optimize data pipelines and support enterprise analytics.

Responsibilities
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• Designs and implements scalable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and loading multi-format, batch or streaming data from various sources into enterprise Data Lakehouse.

• Ensures data quality and integrity through data cleansing, validation, and transformation techniques.

• Automates data processing workflows using scripting languages and orchestration tools.

• Builds and deploys RESTful API’s and web services for data access and data requests.

• Helps define the data management strategy and roadmap for the organization.

• Collaborates with data architects, data engineers, and product managers to align data solutions with business strategy.

• Stays current with industry trends, vendor product offerings, and evolving data technologies to ensure the organization leverages the best modern data engineering tools.

• Develops and maintains technical design documents, coding best practices and standards to ensure consistent and reliable data management processes are in place.

• Responsible for maintaining legacy technologies and processes as new ones are adopted.

• Mentors junior Data Engineers.

Qualifications
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Required
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• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, IT, Math, Data Analytics, Engineering, or related discipline

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Management or Data Warehouse/Lakehouse design and development

• 3+ years of experience in Python/PySpark for building and maintaining data pipelines

• 1+ years of experience with cloud based modern data platforms and services (e.g., Azure, GCP or AWS)

• Strong knowledge of database systems, data modeling techniques, and SQL proficiency

• Experience creating and enhancing ETL and ELT processes

• Experience working with JSON/YAML/XML/Parquet and other open-source data interchange and storage formats

• Experience working with big data technologies like Spark, Kafka, No

SQL DB, Splunk etc.

• Experience with agile development processes and concepts

• Knowledge of Dev Ops practices and CI/CD processes

• Knowledge of Microservices architecture, Data Product and Data Mesh concepts

Preferred
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• Master’s degree in Business, IT, Math, Data Analytics, Engineering or related discipline

• Displays intellectual curiosity and integrity

Company
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VCU Medical Center is a school. It is a sub-organization of Virginia Commonwealth University. Founded in 1838, the company is headquartered in Richmond, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.