Data Engineer Remote Role new

Data Engineer

Remote Role

Contract Role

What Project/Projects will the candidate be working on while on assignment? Complex Health Systems (CHS)

Is this person a sole contributor or part of a team? Team If so, please describe the team? (Name of team, size of team, etc.)

What are the top 5-10 responsibilities for this position? (Please be detailed as to what the candidate is expected to do or complete on a daily basis)

• Work collaboratively with business teams including data scientists and business intelligence analysts to understand their needs for data and create an extract that satisfy Business requirements
• Analyze raw data sources and data transformation requirements
• Perform data modeling against large data sets for peak efficiency
• Implement process improvement initiatives and automation for efficiency where appropriate
• Design, build, and deploy processes to load data (sets and sources) into Hadoop
• Write code, and leverage tools, to transform data to incorporate business logic as defined in conjunction with various business stakeholders
• Design, code, test, document, and maintain high-quality and scalable Big Data solutions
• Write technical documentation

What software tools/skills are needed to perform these daily responsibilities?

• 2+ years of hands on experience programming on Hadoop
• 4+ years of experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - system development projects
• Experience with agile/scrum methodologies
• Previous experience with Relational Databases (RDBMS) & Non- Relational Databases
• Previous experience in implementation of ETL processes, Data warehousing principles, architecture and robust development of data pipelines in complex environments
• Analytical and problem solving experience applied to a Big Data environment
• Understanding and related experience with Hadoop database tools (HBase, Spark, Cassandra, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with related/complementary open source software platforms and languages (e.g. Java, Scala, Python, Unix)

What skills/attributes are a must have?

What skills/attributes are nice to have?

Where is the work to be performed? (Please list preferred UHG facility, if other please specify i.e. remote work, rural, etc.) Remote or any UHC Location

What are the work hours? (ex. 9am-5pm, day/night shifts, rotating shifts, etc) 9AM-5PM ET

Who will be conducting interviews? (Please list names and titles of interviewers) Gurusamy Thirupathy, Dir Architecture. Kevin Gordon, Sr. Mgr.