Senior IT Data Engineer - Remote

Unlock your potential at Florida Blue, a company who champions career growth and is driven by its mission of helping people and communities achieve better health. In addition to career growth opportunities within our 2000+ employee IT organization, you will enjoy competitive salariesandbenefits, work-life balance,flexible work arrangements, opportunities for growth and development, and a great place to workacross our family of companies!

The Senior IT Data Engineer has the following:

Key Responsibilities

• Write code for complex system designs. Write programs that span platforms. Code to and/or create Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
• Write code mostly for developing new programs. Review code developed by other Developers
• Write detailed technical specifications for entire systems (made up of several subsystems). Identify integration points. Review technical specs created by other developers. Ensure sufficient quality and compliance of documentation to architectural standards
• Report missing elements found in system and functional requirements and explain impacts on subsystem to team members
• Consult with other Developers, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts and Project Managers
• "Scope" time, resources, etc. required to complete programming projects. Seek review from other Developers, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts or Project Managers on estimates. Incorporate other Developer's scope information into own scope document (for integration points)
• Assist in reviewing vendor products. Provide SME input on compliance of products to architectural standards and impacts to IT environment
• Perform unit testing and debugging. Set test conditions based upon code specifications. Able to debug most program errors (simple to complex). May seek assistance from vendors to debug complex errors
• Support transition of application throughout the Product Development life cycle. Document what has to be migrated. Often requires more coordination points for transitioning systems. Document what has to be migrated / file properties
• Work on integration issues and determines the integration approach. Coordinate with other areas for integration architecture solutions
• Assist technical team with defining configuration for installing products. May consult on database setup. May load database for testing, especially if there are multiple tables.
• Act as a technical mentor to other team members

Required Work Experience

• 5+ years' experience in software development coding, proficiency programming in more than one object-oriented programming language
• Deep experience as data engineer including Coding, data warehousing, Data analysis and Database system
• Deep experience in creating and running SQL queries
• Deep experience in running ETL processes
• Experience and understanding with unit testing, release procedures, coding design and documentation protocol as well as change management procedures
• Proficiency using versioning tools, debugging tools
• Must demonstrate initiative and effective independent decision-making skills
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly and articulately
• In-depth understanding of the systems development life cycle
• Proficiency using standard desktop applications such as MS Suite and flowcharting tools such as Visio
• High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy
• Experience mentoring / or leading other development staff
• Proven leadership abilities including effective knowledge sharing, conflict resolution, facilitation of open discussions, fairness and displaying appropriate levels of assertiveness
• Related Bachelor's degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks
• Experience with Cloudera platform
• Experience using Agile methodology

General Physical Demands
Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

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