Senior GCP Data Engineer

Emids is a leading provider of digital transformation solutions to the healthcare industry, serving payers, providers, life sciences, and technology firms. Headquartered in Nashville, emids helps bridge critical gaps in providing accessible, affordable, and high-quality healthcare by providing digital transformation services, custom application development, data engineering, business intelligence solutions, and specialized consulting services to all parts of the healthcare ecosystem. With nearly 2,500 professionals globally, emids leverages strong domain expertise in healthcare-specific platforms, regulations, and standards to provide tailored, cutting-edge solutions and services to its clients.

Role Title – Data Engineer (GCP)

Location – Hartford, CT

A Brief Overview

Designs, builds, and maintains large-scale data infrastructure and data processing systems. Implements robust and scalable solutions to support data-driven applications, analytics, and business intelligence.

What you will do

• Ensures seamless integration of data from different sources, such as databases, application programming interfaces (APIs), or streaming platforms.
• Optimizes data processing and query performance by fine-tuning data pipelines, database configurations, and data partitioning strategies.
• Establishes data quality checks and validations to identify and resolve data issues, ensuring high-quality and reliable data for downstream applications and analytics.
• Implements security measures to protect sensitive data throughout the data lifecycle by working closely with security teams to ensure data encryption, access controls, and compliance with data protection regulations.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, analysts, software engineers, and business stakeholders.
• Designs and develops data infrastructure, including data warehouses, data lakes, and data pipelines.
• Establishes auditing and monitoring mechanisms to track data access and maintain data governance standards.
• Establishes monitoring and alerting mechanisms to identify bottlenecks, latency, or failures, and troubleshoots data-related problems, investigates root causes, and implements remediation measures.
• Explores new frameworks, platforms, or cloud services that can enhance data processing capabilities.
• Leverages devesecops practices

‘Must Have’ Experience:

• Preferred Qualification
• GCP Experience - BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Python, Cloud composer/Airflow , Cloud Storage & Dataflow/Data Fusion
• Hands-on experience building and deploying data transformation and processing solutions using Teradata utilities (BTEQ, TPT, FastLoad & SQL Queries).
• GCP - Data Engineer certification strongly preferred.
• Ability to leverage multiple tools and programming languages to analyze and manipulate data sets from disparate data sources.
• Strong problem-solving skills and critical thinking ability
• Strong collaboration and communication skills within and across teams
• Knowledge in Flask, JavaScript, HTML , CSS, Django
• Knowledge in BI Tools MicroStrategy, Tableau
• Must understand software development methodologies including waterfall and agile.
• Health Care/PBM domain experience
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Experience in building, executing Data Engineering pipelines.
• 6+ years of Experience with Python
• 7+ years of Experience with SQL
• 7+ years of hands-on Experience with bash shell scripts, UNIX utilities & UNIX Commands
• 5+ years of hands-on Experience with a major cloud platform GCP, BiqQuery, Cloud SQL etc.
• 5+ experience with various databases Teradata, DB2, Oracles, SQL Server etc.
• Healthcare experience and PBM systems knowledge preferred.

Here at Emids we're not scared of differences. It's how we break new ground. As we scale and elevate the experience of our clients in the Healthcare & LifeSciences Space and ultimately have an impact on every patient from every walk of life, the team we build must be reflective of the diversity that we serve. Together, we've built and will continue to grow, a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone has a seat at the table and the space to be their most authentic self. Emids believes in being an Equal Opportunity Employer and we support, celebrate, and cherish all the things that make our teammates who they are.