End Client: State of South Carolina
Job Title: Data Engineer
Duration: 12 Months
Location: 1201 Main Street Suite 600 Columbia South Carolina 29201 Hybrid
Position Type: Contract
Interview Type: Virtual
Requirement ID: SSCDATA511RP
Position #: 7511
Department: SCDHHS
Hybrid (3 days in office 2 days remote) First month onsite for training & Candidate must be a CURRENT SC resident or willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.
Description:
- The South Carolina Department of Health & Human Services (SCDHHS) is the State Medicaid Agency for South Carolina.
- This agency is focused on the modernization of the States Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS).
- The modernization is a major undertaking for SCDHHS and requires major transformation of culture processes and technology.
- The modernization program supports the Departments transition from primarily a fee-for-service payor of claims towards a program and policy driver for health outcomes primarily through managed care programs. The programs strategy supports significant innovation in MMIS
- thinking and mindset and is aligned with MMIS innovation at the national level as well.
Scope of the Project:
The Data Operations Hub (DOH) serves as the centralized platform and team responsible for ingesting validating transforming securing and provisioning all enterprise data to support analytics reporting operational efficiency and regulatory compliance.
Daily Duties / Responsibilities:
As a System Software Programmer - Consultant at South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) you will be a key member of the Data Operations Hub Team. Your role involves designing developing and implementing analytical data solutions that align with the Agencys strategic goals. You will leverage your expertise in data architecture data modeling data migrations and data integration collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve target state architecture goals.
Job Responsibilities
- Represent the Data Operations Hub team in various forums advising on Data Solutions.
- Lead the design and maintenance of scalable data solutions including data lakes and warehouses.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data product solutions supports business needs and enables data-driven decision-making.
- Evaluate and select data technologies driving the adoption of emerging technologies.
- Develop architectural models using sparkx or other data modeling tool available and
- other artifacts to support data initiatives.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in specific areas.
- Experience with modern data processing technologies such as Python Java Airflow etc. using data mesh & data lake.
- Contribute to the data engineering community and advocate for agency data practices.
- Engage in hands-on coding and design to implement production solutions.
- Optimize system performance by resolving inefficiencies.
- Design reusable data frameworks using new technologies.
Required Skills:
- 3 years experience as a Data Engineer or similar role leading technologists to manage anticipate and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise.
- 3 years hands-on experience in system design Python application development and operational stability.
- 3 years experience in architecture disciplines and Python and Java programming languages.
- 2 years experience on data modeling integration cloud data services data domain driven design
- 2 years experience with AWS/Azure services and data engineering disciplines.
- 3 years experience in SQL data warehousing solutions and cloud native relational databases e.g. Snowflake Athena Postgres
Preferred Skills:
- AWS or Azure Certification (CCP) or Developer
- Medicaid background
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