Data Engineer Lead

Client: Healthcare Background Job title: Senior/Lead Data Engineer Location: Dallas TX Work Mode: Felexible - Onsite/Hybrid/Remote Duration: Long-term Contract Current Need: The Senior / Lead Data Engineer will bepart of Data team, and responsibilities include managing data exploration and analysis, requirements assessment, data source identification, exploratory research, and defining as well as maintaining data definitions, business rules, and lineage. Additional duties involve documentation, collaborating with Data Architects and Engineers on product design, data stewardship, metadata management, ensuring data quality, conducting different types of testing (functional, regression, exploratory), and preparing and executing test cases and plans. Key Responsibilities • Support a cross-functional team and provide in-depth data insights for complex business problems that can be approached with advanced analytics • Work closely with the other Data Engineers and Scientists to deliver results • Citizen of PSAS BU data engineering team and enable the BU Driven Data Insights • Coordinate and collaborate with program managers and other internal stakeholders including gathering requirements and modeling criteria • Leverage tools and resources to plan, evaluate and execute strategic initiatives • Strong delegation and management skills to ensure work is conducted in a timely, quality fashion by internal and external partners and multi-shore teams/resources. • Continuously improve and optimize business processes and operations. Identifying, publicizing the tech debt across data landscape and championing addressal pursuits. • Data Engineering and Analytics support • Thinks in automation first, enterprise first and reusability mindset. Develops solution architectures and designs and helps build consensus among teams to champion the data solutions. • Collaborates with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions with full stack of Data technologies,toolsand processes. • Implements data governance practices in partnership with business stakeholders and peers, data governance officeteamsand solution teams to advocate for data literacy and data democratization across enterprise. • Builds scalable and reliable data engineering solutions for moving data efficiently across systems from various internal and external data sources in the batch and real-time mode • Analyzes, models structured data and implement/scale algorithms to support analysis using advanced statistical and mathematical methods from statistics, data mining, econometrics, and operations research, using distributed and parallel programming techniques. • Must be well versed in general infrastructure technology and understand public and private cloud concepts such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Desktop as a Service (DaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Experience with automation to Infrastructure (IaC- Infrastructure as Code) • Troubleshooting, Monitoring and Performance Tuning of various software components of various data science analytical solutions, RESTful web services etc... • Understanding oflarge database mining tools and statistical languagesutilizedto efficiently build approaches andexecute onanalytical use cases. Specific experience withSnowflake, Databricks, Azure data factory,PySpark,Analytical SQL,Splunk,Alation,R, Python.Experience with SAP and IBM DataStage is also extremely beneficial. • Communicateresults and educate others through reports and presentations. Minimum Job Qualifications(Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities): Education/Training – • Bachelor's or master's degree in data science, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, ora relatedfield. • 7+ years of experience in data analytics, with at least 2 years in a leadership or mentorship role. • Proficiencyin SQL, Python, R, or similar analytical tools. • Experience with data visualization platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker. • Strong understanding of statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and data mining techniques. • Experience with analytical tools such as Databricks & Snowflake • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment. Specialized Knowledge/Skills – • Leadership Skills: Exceptional ability to lead, mentor, and inspire teams, fostering an environment of accountability and innovation. This position operates under consultative direction towards broad corporate goals, requiring a high degree of initiative and independence in achieving project outcomes. • Strategic Thinking: Strong analytical skills and the ability to develop strategies that align with long-termobjectives. • Problem Solving: Innovative and creative problem-solving skills capable of handling complex challenges.