Lead Data Engineer - Graph & Healthcare Analytics Remote

Apex Systems, LLC; Tampa, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 124,000; Full time

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Job summary

Centene Corporation seeks a Lead Data Engineer to design enterprise-scale data platforms powering provider, member, claims, and network analytics. You will build graph-based solutions with Python, PySpark, and AWS Glue to enable AI initiatives and data quality improvements.

Ideal candidates combine healthcare data experience with graph data modeling and governance. You will mentor engineers and help mature data engineering practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Data Engineering experience.
• Expert-level Python development experience.
• Senior-level expertise with PySpark and distributed data processing.
• Strong experience developing AWS Glue ETL pipelines.
• Deep understanding of data warehousing and data lake architectures.
• Experience with SQL and large-scale relational databases.
• Experience designing and implementing graph database solutions (Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, TigerGraph, or equivalent).
• Experience processing healthcare data including claims, provider, member, eligibility, pharmacy, or clinical data.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable data platforms supporting claims, provider, member, pharmacy, and clinical data.
• Develop and optimize large-scale ETL/ELT solutions using Python, PySpark, AWS Glue, and AWS cloud services.
• Build and maintain graph database solutions to model complex healthcare relationships.
• Create provider, member, facility, and network knowledge graphs to support analytics and AI initiatives.
• Design entity resolution and data matching solutions to identify duplicate providers, network relationships, and referral patterns.
• Develop reusable, metadata-driven data ingestion frameworks and data quality controls.
• Implement data governance, lineage, and monitoring capabilities across enterprise data assets.
• Collaborate with business and technology leaders to translate healthcare use cases into scalable data solutions.

Skills

Python

PySpark

AWS Glue

Graph databases

Data modeling

SQL

Tools

Neo4j

Amazon Neptune

TigerGraph

Snowflake

Databricks

Airflow

Kafka

DBT

Job description

Centene Corporation seeks a Lead Data Engineer to design enterprise-scale data platforms powering provider, member, claims, and network analytics. You will build graph-based solutions with Python, PySpark, and AWS Glue to enable AI initiatives and data quality improvements.

Ideal candidates combine healthcare data experience with graph data modeling and governance. You will mentor engineers and help mature data engineering practices across the organization.