Director, Data Engineering

You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world.  As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.
 

Position Purpose:

Directs and leads the strategic development of the overall data reliability and infrastructure and mentors the team of data engineers.

Establishes development processes, and expanding technology roadmap, planning features, measuring outputs, and ensuring quality products.

Makes decisions using analytical insights from a variety of business contexts and communicates those complex insights effectively with senior leadership.

• Directs a cohesive data engineering team responsible for the design and development of software and processes to support complex and large scale, efficient data pipelines and optimizes the availability of data to generate insights and address business needs

• Articulates and executes technical business goals and requirements into designs utilizing best practice design patterns and partner with engineering leads, product managers, and design leads in shaping and guiding the technical direction for the data engineering team

• Owns and drives the planning, prioritization and execution of data production projects and processes and the activities of team of experienced data engineers responsible for developing software code that formats, tags, processes, stores and delivers data

• Builds and establishes the standards and processes required to ensure the delivery of high-quality data products

• Conducts code reviews and lead complex technical discussions, accountable for the maintenance of agile processes and ceremonies for the data team

• Manages and oversees the automation of key ETL / ELT (Extract / Transform / Load) and quality assurance (in collaboration with quality engineering team) processes for large volumes of data and migrations of workloads

• Establishes and implements data governance, data quality, integrity, standards, master data management, metadata strategy, and business intelligence/analytics

• Makes decisions on key technology choices for data pipelines to ensure that they are scalable, repeatable, secure, and can serve users at scale in the organization

• Recruit, manage, and develop data engineers, software engineers and leaders on the Data Engineering team

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Complies with all policies and standards

Education/Experience:

Requires a Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of related experience, including prior management experience.
Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.
Technical Skills:

• One or more of the following skills are desired.
• Knowledge of Agile Software Development; Scrum (Software Development); Technical Support
• Knowledge of Extract Transform Load (ETL); SQL (Programming Language)
• Knowledge of Other: relational and non-relational databases, Cloud-based data processes, and business intelligence
• Experience with one or more of the following Other: Experience in performing and monitoring enterprise level data governance, integrity, quality, managing master data, moving data between databases, providing metadata strategy, and business intelligence/analytics

Soft Skills:

• - Ability to lead/manage others
• - Collaboration and team building skills
• - Effectively coaches and delivers constructive feedback
• - Instills commitment to organizational goals
• - Ability to communicate and make recommendations to upper management
• - Effective conflict management skills
• - Develops and delivers effective presentations
• - Demonstrated negotiation skills
• - Ability to analyze and interpret financial data in order to facilitate on projects initiatives and goals

Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules.  Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status.  Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act