Senior Data Engineer

1 Inventa Place
Silver Spring, MD 20910


Kids Are Our Everything.

Department

10017 Enterprise Data and AI

Pay Range

$110,052.80 - $183,414.40

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and operationalizing advanced cloud data pipelines to facilitate seamless data consumption for reports, advanced analytics, and AI initiatives. This role involves overseeing the entire data lifecycle, including data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality assurance. The Senior Data Engineer ensures the optimization and orchestration of data pipelines to handle high-volume and high-performance requirements effectively. Additionally, this role leads efforts in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), driving automation and deployment efficiency. The Senior Data Engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams to align data solutions with business needs, provide strategic insights, and mentor junior team members, all while upholding best practices and ensuring data integrity.

Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree A Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science). (Required) Or

Minimum Work Experience
6 years Requires deep functional knowledge with 6+ years of related experience or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position. (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge
Experience with big data; data processing and cloud technologies.
Strong experience diagnosing system issues, engaging in data validation, and providing quality assurance testing.
Experience with data manipulation; Data mining.
Experience working in production cloud infrastructure.
Experience with C# (programming language); Java (programming language); Programming concepts; Programming tools; Python (Programming Language); SQL (programming language).
Knowledge of Microsoft Azure; Databricks or equivalent.
Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to work independently.
Demonstrated analytical skills.
Demonstrated project management skills.
Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.
Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
Great verbal and written communication skills, communicate complex findings in a clear and understandable manner
Great facilitation ability to host sessions and elicit ideas from others, understanding their issues and encourage group participation
Attention to detail.
Communicate complex findings in a clear and understandable manner
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
Adapt to changing priorities and thrive in a dynamic environment

Functional Accountabilities

• Helps guide the design and implementation of complex data management procedures around data staging, data ingestion, data preparation, data provisioning, data destruction, (scripts, programs automation, assisted by automation etc.)

• Provides guidance to data engineering in the design, development, implementation, testing, documentation, and preparation of large scale, high volume, high performance data structures for business intelligence analysts.

• Designs, develops and maintains real time processing applications and real time data pipelines.

• Ensure quality of technical solutions as data moves across environments.

• Provides senior level knowledge and insight into the changing cloud data environment, data processing, data storage, and utilization requirements for the company and drives the team toward viable solutions.

• Develops, constructs, tests, and maintains architectures using advanced programming languages and tools.

• Drives ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality and deploys a solution; use data to discover tasks that can be automated.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Complies with all policies and standards.

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual’s combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here: Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.