City/State
Virginia Beach, VAWork Shift
First (Days)Overview:
Sentara is hiring a Data Engineer!This is a fully remote position.
OverviewWe are looking for a Data Engineer to support a modern data platform built on Databricks. This role will focus on building scalable data pipelines, supporting a metadata-driven ingestion framework, and ensuring data quality and governance are embedded into the platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain data pipelines using PySpark and Databricks
- Work within a metadata-driven ingestion framework to onboard new datasets
- Implement data quality checks and validation rules within pipelines
- Support ingestion from file-based sources and ingestion tools (e.g., Fivetran)
- Handle schema changes, incremental loads, and file processing patterns
- Contribute to data governance practices including tagging, metadata, and lineage
- Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline failures and performance issues
- Collaborate with architects and stakeholders on data onboarding and requirements
- Follow and contribute to coding standards, reusable components, and best practices
- Experience in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree
- 3+ years of relevant experience with a degree
- 5+ years of relevant experience without a degree
- No specific certification or licensure requirements
- Required to 3 to 5 years of relevant experience
- Hands-on experience with PySpark and Databricks
- Strong SQL skills
- Experience building ETL/ELT data pipelines
- Understanding of Delta Lake concepts (merge, schema evolution, partitions)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
- Basic experience with Git and version control
- Exposure to data catalog or governance tools (e.g., DataHub)
- Experience with Fivetran or similar ingestion tools
- Understanding of data quality and validation concepts
- Experience working with metadata-driven frameworks
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
- Ability to work in a structured, framework-driven environment
- Focus on data quality, not just pipeline execution
- Willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-evolving data ecosystem
•Legal Resources Plan
•Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.
For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:
Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
What We Do
Sentara Healthcare celebrates a 130-year history of innovation, compassion and community benefit. Based in Norfolk, VA, Sentara is a diverse not-for-profit family of 12 hospitals, an array of integrated services and a team of nearly 30,000 strong on a mission to improve health every day. This mandate is pursued through a disciplined strategy to achieve Top 10% performance in key measures through shared best practices, transformation of primary care through clinical integration and strategic growth that adds value to the communities we serve in Virginia and North Carolina.
