Data Engineer, Senior

Blue Shield of CA; Rancho Cordova (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA in Rancho Cordova, CA seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and operate complex data pipelines and cloud data solutions. You will embed security, automation, and reliability across the SDLC while ensuring production readiness and governance.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires collaboration and sharing engineering best practices in a regulated healthcare environment. You will tackle modern data stack tooling (dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow) and advance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum 5 years of data engineering experience.
• Strong SQL with scripting and automation experience.
• Cloud platforms (Azure preferred) with ADLS, Synapse and Data Factory.
• Hands-on with dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow or Tidal.
• Data Vault 2.0 data modeling, integration, architecture, warehousing, quality.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, GitHub).
• Strong agile delivery and enterprise cloud integration knowledge.
• Excellent communication to translate technical solutions for stakeholders.
• Healthcare or regulated environments, Epic exposure preferred.
• Awareness of data governance, security standards, and production certification.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate complex data pipelines and cloud data solutions.
• Embed security, automation, and reliability across the SDLC.
• Ensure production readiness and operational excellence for data products.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate technical designs to non-technical audiences.

Skills

SQL scripting

Automation

Azure

ADLS

Synapse

Data Factory

dbt

Snowflake

Databricks

Airflow

Tidal

Data Vault 2.0

Data integration

Data architecture

Data warehousing

Data quality

CI/CD

Bitbucket

GitHub

Agile

enterprise cloud

communication

stakeholder mgmt

healthcare data

Epic ecosystem exposure

data governance

security standards

production certification

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Your Role

The Data Services team is responsible for technical design and end-to-end delivery of complex data-driven solutions and data products for the enterprise. The Data Engineer, Senior will report to the Sr Manager, Data Solutions / Manager. This role is responsible for independent designing, building, and operating complex data pipelines and cloud data solutions while embedding security, automation, and reliability throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The Senior Data Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring production readiness, operational excellence, and adherence to engineering standards across data products.

This role is a hands‑on technical leader who thrives in a collaborative environment, contributes to engineering best practices, and actively supports continuous improvement across people, process, and technology.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Requires a minimum of 5 years of relevant data engineering experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience with SQL, including scripting and automation.
• Expertise with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and services such as ADLS, Synapse, and Data Factory.
• Hands‑on experience with modern data stack tools such as dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, or Tidal.
• Solid knowledge of data modeling (Data Vault 2.0), data integration, data architecture, warehousing, and data quality.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Bitbucket, GitHub).
• Strong understanding of agile delivery methodologies and enterprise cloud integration.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical solutions to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience in healthcare or regulated environments, including Epic ecosystem exposure preferred.
• Awareness of data governance, security standards, and production certification processes.