Senior Big Data Engineer Databricks

Summary

This job takes the lead in providing complex application development services in Highmarks Google Cloud Platform environment typically as part of a project team or in an application support role. Databricks Engineers analyze design code test and implement more complex systematic solutions to meet customer requirements that adhere to Highmark IT standards and policies. They also provide general support to maintain more complex applications that meet the service levels system availability performance and quality levels required by their customers. Able to guide and mentor less experienced team members.

Responsibilities

• Takes a lead role for analyzing designing coding testing and implementing more complex application enhancements as well as providing general production support meeting defined scope target dates and budgets with minimal or no defects.
• Utilizes and participates in the more complex full system development life cycle per current Highmark SDLC standards.
• Takes a lead role in collaborating with customers business analysts partners and IT team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions. Concentrates on providing innovative solutions to more complex business needs.
• Performs work in compliance with all Highmark and Highmark IT standards policies and procedures.
• Actively takes a leading role and participates on project teams in various project roles including but not limited to Developer Technical Lead and Project Manager based upon level of experience.
• Effectively communicates with team members customers partners and management including assisting with or conducting more complex technical walkthroughs reporting project status enabling vendor solutions and providing accurate and concise documentation.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science or closely related field
• 5 years of experience as a developer
• 3 years of experience in Databricks technology and be experienced in working with Databricks notebooks clusters and jobs. They should be able to optimize and troubleshoot Databricks workflows.
• Deep understanding of Spark and its core concepts. They should be proficient in Spark programming Python Pyspark
• Strong data engineering skills including experience with data ingestion (batch and streaming) data transformation and data quality validation. They should be familiar with ETL and have handson experience with data pipelines and data orchestration tools.
• Expertise with GCP including services like Google Cloud Storage BigQuery Pub/Sub and Dataflow.
• Problem solving root cause analysis and issue resolution
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Experience in Healthcare or Health Insurance Industry
• Experience with Databricks GCP application development tools business processes software development life cycle used by Highmark enterprise

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree in Information Technology Computer Science or closely related field

• 5 years of experience as a developer with demonstrated skills in:
  • Databricks
  • Python/Pyspark

• GCP: Big Query and PostgreSQL
• Certifications such as Python Databricks GCP