Associate Cloud Data Engineer - EDW Team

About the role

Government Employees Health Association, Inc. (G.E.H.A) is a nonprofit member association that provides health and dental benefits to millions of federal employees and retirees, military retirees and their families. As an Assoc Cloud Data Engineer, you will assist in developing and maintaining scalable data pipelines on Snowflake-based technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support the cloud data framework that aligns with the Enterprise Data Strategy, policies, and organizational goals.
• Design and build data pipelines.
• Develop scalable, efficient, and secure ETL/ELT pipelines for ingesting, processing, storing, and consuming large datasets on Azure or Snowflake.
• Collaborate with business data analysts, project managers, and G.E.H.A’s business stakeholders to build solutions that ensure seamless data flow and enable actionable insights.
• Work in a cloud-native environment to design and optimize data solutions that improve performance, scalability, and efficiency of our data and analytics offerings.
• Troubleshoot issues with data pipelines, data integrity, and platform performance, providing timely resolutions to business-critical data needs.
• Ensure that all deliverables follow the company Change Management process.
• Participate in scrum, backlog grooming, refinement, planning, and review sessions.

Requirements

• Requires 1-2 years of relevant technical or business work experience with preferred experience within healthcare industry or data and analytics.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field or comparable experience.
• Firsthand experience with Snowflake, Microsoft Azure tools such as Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), and other Azure services.
• Hand-on experience in Data Query language, like SQL, and experience with writing queries, stored procedures, and managing datasets.
• Competent SQL skills or equivalent such Python, R, Apache Spark etc.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines for data solutions.
• Passion & eagerness to learn innovative technologies & techniques; eagerness towards understanding data & business processes to contribute & are effective.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
• Basic understanding of Agile and Scrum processes.
• Prior knowledge or willingness to learn healthcare and analytics industries.

Qualifications

• Must have the ability to provide a non-cellular High Speed Internet Service such as Fiber, DSL, or cable Modems for a home office.
• A minimum standard speed for optimal performance of 30x5 (30mpbs download x 5mpbs upload) is required.
• Lateness (ping) response time lower than 80 ms.
• Hotspots, satellite and wireless internet service is NOT allowed for this role.
• A dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Benefits

• Competitive pay/salary ranges.
• Incentive plan.
• Health/Vision/Dental benefits effective day one.
• 401(k) retirement plan company match – dollar for dollar up to 4% employee contribution (pretax or Roth options) plus a 6% annual company contribution.
• Robust employee well-being program.
• Paid Time Off.
• Personal Community Enrichment Time.
• Company-provided Basic Life and AD&D.
• Company-provided Short-Term & Long-Term Disability.
• Tuition Assistance Program.

Schedule

This is a remote opportunity, but G.E.H.A does not hire employees from U.S. territories or the following states: Alaska, Hawaii, California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Maine.