Lead Data Engineer
Cognitive
- Location
- Virginia · District of Columbia · Maryland +6
- Workplace
- Remote
- Employment
- Full Time
- Salary
- USD 130,000–160,000/yr
Posted 1mo ago
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Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end PDE data pipeline ingestion, validation, editing, and storage
- Apply and maintain CMS-defined business rule validations
- Engineer and maintain vendor reference data edits from multiple sources
- Build, maintain, and optimize Apache Airflow and PySpark transformations
- Monitor PDE submissions for adjustment trends and informational edit rates
- Provide analytical capability to link rejected PDEs with IDR records
- Provide beneficiary and plan-level cost aggregations for year-end reconciliation
- Support data transfer projects and new data share integrations with CMS
- Maintain target unit test coverage for all new pipeline code
- Support BDD and TDD practices
- Track and surface real-time PDE processing metrics
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field
- 8+ years in data engineering
- 4+ years building and operating high-volume batch ETL systems
- Expert-level Python and PySpark experience
- Production experience with Apache Airflow (AWS MWAA)
- Production experience with AWS Redshift Serverless, Snowflake, and Amazon Athena
- Hands-on experience with Databricks for large-scale data processing
- Strong SQL skills for multi-source data transformation and editing logic
- Experience with AWS S3, SQS, Lambda, and Event Bridge
- Experience with Linux environments including RHEL, CentOS, and Amazon Linux 2
- Experience with shell scripting in Bash
- Experience with version control and CI/CD using GitHub, Jenkins, and JFrog Artifactory
- Ability to pass CMS and internal background checks for public trust
Skills
- Python
- PySpark
- Apache Airflow
- AWS MWAA
- AWS Redshift Serverless
- Snowflake
- Amazon Athena
- Databricks
- SQL
- AWS S3
- AWS SQS
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Event Bridge
- RHEL
- CentOS
- Amazon Linux 2
- Bash
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- JFrog Artifactory
- XRay
- SonarQube
- Snyk
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