Data Engineer Sr

Remote Work Requirement

For roles that are 100% remote or hybrid, you must have access to a reliable high-speed internet connection to support daily job responsibilities. A minimum bandwidth of 50 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload is required. Those fully remote associates residing in states where service is required by contract, law, or regulation will be allowed to submit for reimbursement.

About AmeriHealth Caritas

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At AmeriHealth Caritas, we're passionate about helping people get care, stay well and build healthy communities. As one of the nation's leaders in health care solutions, we offer our associates the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of people through our national footprint of products, services and award-winning programs. AmeriHealth Caritas is seeking talented, passionate individuals to join our team. Together we can build healthier communities. If you want to make a difference, we'd like to hear from you.

Headquartered in Newtown Square, PA, AmeriHealth Caritas is a mission-driven organization with more than 30 years of experience. We deliver comprehensive, outcomes-driven care to those who need it most. We offer integrated managed care products, pharmaceutical benefit management and specialty pharmacy services, behavioral health services, and other administrative services.

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Role Overview

The Senior Data Engineer is a critical member of the Clinical Informatics team and serves as the subject matter expert on clinical systems databases and underlying data structures. This role is responsible for designing, developing, and delivering data assets that enable enterprise reporting, analytics, and regulatory use cases, ensuring that the clinical system user experience results in accurate, actionable information. The position improves system reliability and operational data integrity through development of querying and data tools, and by establishing clear documentation that maps front-end data elements to underlying data structures and analytic outputs. In this role, you will work across business domains to ensure data governance and standards are consistently applied and adhered to, partnering with clinical, operational, and IT stakeholders to deliver solutions that reflect real workflows and user needs.

Work Arrangement

• Remote role
• Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM EST to 5:00 PM EST

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain internal querying tools, data utilities, and reusable components that improve clinical systems build efficiency, troubleshooting speed, and error prevention; partner with Clinical Informatics stakeholders to adopt and use these tools within operational workflows.
• Develop and maintain data structures and governance practices that support clinical informatics, analytics, and population health reporting; ensure models are scalable, understandable, and aligned to governed definitions. Work across business domains to apply data standards consistently and partner with stakeholders to deliver solutions that reflect real workflows and user needs.
• Analyze clinical system workflows and how users interact with data in day to day work; develop a deep understanding of user experience to ensure data solutions are practical, fit for purpose, and aligned with operational needs. Apply judgment to recommend the simplest effective solution, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
• Create and maintain clear documentation that traces how clinical system fields, workflows, and configuration outputs correspond to underlying data structures and analytic outputs; contribute to data dictionaries and lineage artifacts to support accurate and reliable reporting.
• Improve the speed and reliability of data processing and reporting by identifying performance issues and making targeted improvements to data pipelines and queries. Implement data quality practices, including automated validation and testing, to detect issues early and prevent downstream impact to operations and reporting. Integrate data from external systems and interoperability feeds (including standards based interfaces such as FHIR as applicable); participate in data design and architecture reviews to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Coordinate work across Information Systems, the Enterprise Data Office, Enterprise Analytics, and Population Health Analytics to ensure alignment with shared priorities, dependencies, and data standards; operate effectively in a matrixed environment where decision-making is distributed and requires collaboration, influence, and alignment across teams.
• Contribute to shared data engineering standards, documentation, and ways of working; provide guidance to team members to promote consistency, quality, and maintainable solutions.

Education And Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or Health Informatics required. Master's Degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in an automation of reporting environment.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with report automation engineering, batch and real time processing, and agile methods.
• Current or prior experience in the healthcare industry
• Experience working in SQL and Python.
• Experience working with source control and familiarity with Azure DevOps.

Skills And Abilities

• Ability to work with multiple database platforms, such as SQL Server and Oracle
• Understand data lake concepts and familiarity with Azure Databricks
• Familiarity with CI / CD concepts
• Advanced SQL/PySpark, Python (Pandas, PySpark), dbt, Airflow/workflow orchestration, Snowflake or Databricks
• Cloud data services (AWS Glue/S3/Redshift, Azure Data Factory/ADLS, GCP BigQuery)
• Data Modeling (dimensional, Data Vault), FHIR R4 APIs
• HealthCare data standards (NCPDP, X12, HL7)
• CI/CD for data pipelines
• Data Catalog Tools

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package

Flexible work solutions including remote options, hybrid work schedules, Competitive pay, Paid time off including holidays and volunteer events, Health insurance coverage for you and your dependents on Day 1, 401(k) Tuition reimbursement and more.