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Resp & Qualifications
PURPOSE: The Senior Data Engineer is a highly motivated professional responsible for developing innovative and complex data solutions and applications to support actuarial analytics specializing in medical economics. With a critical eye towards data integrity and a deep understanding of claim and provider data, the Senior Data Engineer will work closely with actuaries to produce trend analytics tools and dashboards and assist with ad hoc reporting and analysis.Additionally, the Senior Data Engineer will partner with actuaries to support the financial impact analysis related to the building of and changes to provider networks and contracting. The Senior Data Engineer is expected to have a strong understanding of the business and general health care data and performs analysis on the data to validate accuracy and proper reporting based on established business rules for their own work and that of colleagues. The Senior Data Engineer is expected to have a firm understanding of the fundamentals of actuarial analytics. This includes familiarity with actuarial terminology and basic calculations as well as with the underlying health care data being used for analysis to be able to explain reasons for outliers and to generally support in-depth questions and analytical results.The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible and accountable for all phases of the System Development Life Cycle. This requires an understanding of the business need, the data needed to respond to the request, and the ability to execute on the building and delivery of accurate and timely reporting and data solutions.The Senior Data Engineer is expected to make decisions on the appropriate data sources, the optimal approachto solve business problems, and to ensure that results tie to appropriate controls,mentor staff, provide guidance on projects, and represent Actuarial interests during interactions throughout CareFirst.This is a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative environment requiring quick learning, agility, and flexibility.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:- Develops and maintains infrastructure systems (e.g., data warehouses, data lakes) including data access APIs. Prepares and manipulates data using multiple technologies.
- Interprets data, analyzes results using statistical techniques, and provides ongoing reports. Executes quantitative analyses that translate data into actionable insights. Provides analytical and data-driven decision-making support for key projects. Designs, manages, and conducts quality control procedures for data sets using data from multiple systems.
- Develops data models by studying existing data warehouse architecture; evaluating alternative logical data models including planning and execution tables; applying metadata and modeling standards, guidelines, conventions, and procedures; planning data classes and sub-classes, indexes, directories, repositories, messages, sharing, replication, back-up, retention, and recovery.
- Creates data collection frameworks for structured and unstructured data.
- Improves data delivery engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
- Applies data extraction, transformation and loading techniques in order to connect large data sets from a variety of sources.
- Applies and implements best practices for data auditing, scalability, reliability and application performance.
- Knowledge and understanding of at least one programming language (i.e., SQL, NoSQL, Python)., Expert
- Knowledge and understanding of database design and implementation concepts. , Expert
- Knowledge and understanding of data exchange formats., Expert
- Knowledge and understanding of data movement concepts., Expert
- Strong technical and analytical and problem solving skills to troubleshoot to solve a variety of problems., Expert
- Requires strong organizational and communication skills, written and verbal, with the ability to handle multiple priorities., Advanced
- The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
- Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.
- Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
- Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
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