Lead Data Engineer

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CognitiveHealthcare IT
Cognitive hires only in the following designated U.S. states based on contract and business requirements: VA, DC, MD, TN, FL, AZ, CO, OR, and TX.Full-TimeLead
Salary130,000 - 160,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
8 or more years in data engineering, including 4 or more years building and operating high-volume batch ETL systems.
Required Skills
AWSPythonSQLApache AirflowETLSnowflakeCI/CDDatabricksPySpark

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field.
  • 8 or more years in data engineering, including 4 or more years building and operating high-volume batch ETL systems.
  • Expert-level Python and PySpark skills.
  • Production experience with Apache Airflow (AWS MWAA) for pipeline orchestration at scale.
  • 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 reconciliation.
  • Experience with AWS S3, SQS, Lambda, and Event Bridge.
  • Experience with Linux environments (RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux 2) and Bash shell scripting.
  • Experience with version control and CI/CD integration (GitHub, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory).
  • Ability to pass CMS and internal background checks for public trust.

Responsibilities

  • Own summary records of prescription drug transactions (PDE) ingestion, validation, editing, and storage pipelines.
  • Apply and maintain CMS-defined business rule validations and minimize manual analysis requirements.
  • Engineer and maintain vendor reference data edits and provide CMS status updates on PDE submissions.
  • Build, maintain, and optimize Apache Airflow and PySpark transformations across S3, Redshift Serverless, Snowflake, and Databricks.
  • Monitor PDE submissions for adjustment trends and link rejected PDEs with IDR records.
  • Support data transfer and new integrations for CMS and downstream stakeholders.
  • Maintain target unit test coverage and track real-time PDE processing metrics.
  • Operate within the CMS Lean-Agile Release Train and manage CI/CD pipelines via GitHub and Jenkins.
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