Lead, Software Engineer

Quest Diagnostics; Jeffersonville (PA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Day 1 Medical, supplemental health

401(k) with company match

Annual incentive plans

Education assistance

Job summary

Quest Diagnostics seeks a senior data engineering leader to design, develop, test, and deploy scalable data integration solutions for Master Data Products on the GCP platform. You will lead a team of data engineers, ensuring accurate, trusted patient, client, and test master data for analytics and AI/ML applications.

Expect 7+ years in data development, 2+ years in technical leadership, and deep GCP experience. Strong SQL/Python/Java skills and knowledge of data governance are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Master’s degree preferred in a relevant discipline.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on leadership: lead master data engineering and development in GCP.
• Team management: coach and mentor data engineers.
• Strategic alignment: translate roadmap into scalable data solutions.
• Pipeline development: build/maintain data pipelines from transactional systems to GCP analytics.
• Data governance & quality: integrate validation/standardization in pipelines.
• Technical standards: apply GCP-centric technologies and best practices.
• Delivery management: coordinate with teams to ensure timely, quality data assets.
• Advisory role: guide analytics/data science with robust master data structures.
• Continuous improvement: adopt new cloud tech and drive process improvements.

Skills

Cloud Data Engineering

Data Warehousing

Data Quality & Integration

Coding & Scripting

Critical Thinking

Leadership & Mentoring

Business Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Tools

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

SQL

Python

Scala

Java

Job description

Job Description

In this role, reporting to the Director, Master Data Products, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying highly scalable, high-performance data integration and transformation solutions for Quest’s core Master Data Products (Patient, Client, Test, Facility, Eligibility, Preferences, Exclusions) within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem. You will lead a team of data engineers to design large-scale master data processing solutions and pipelines optimized for scaling. This includes developing automated processes for acquiring, integrating, transforming, standardizing, and verifying master and reference data from transactional systems to ensure these key data assets are accurate, reliable, and readily consumable for enterprise reporting, AI/ML models, and advanced analytics.

Job Description

In this role, reporting to the Director, Master Data Products, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying highly scalable, high-performance data integration and transformation solutions for Quest’s core Master Data Products (Patient, Client, Test, Facility, Eligibility, Preferences, Exclusions) within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem. You will lead a team of data engineers to design large-scale master data processing solutions and pipelines optimized for scaling. This includes developing automated processes for acquiring, integrating, transforming, standardizing, and verifying master and reference data from transactional systems to ensure these key data assets are accurate, reliable, and readily consumable for enterprise reporting, AI/ML models, and advanced analytics.

Benefits Information

We are proud to offer best-in-class benefits and programs to support employees and their families in living healthy, happy lives. Our pay and benefit plans have been designed to promote employee health in all respects – physical, financial, and developmental. Depending on whether it is a part‑time or full‑time position, some of the benefits offered may include:

• Day 1 Medical, supplemental health, dental & vision for FT employees who work 30+ hours
• Best‑in‑class well‑being programs
• Annual, no‑cost health assessment program Blueprint for Wellness®
• healthyMINDS mental health program
• Vacation and Health/Flex Time
• 6 Holidays plus 1 "MyDay" off
• FinFit financial coaching and services
• 401(k) pre‑tax and/or Roth IRA with company match up to 5% after 12 months of service
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Life and disability insurance, plus buy‑up option
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Annual incentive plans
• Matching gifts program
• Education assistance through MyQuest for Education
• Career advancement opportunities
• and so much more!

Responsibilities

• Hands‑on Leadership: Act as a hands‑on technology leader who can (and will) get your hands dirty in the master data engineering and development activities within the GCP environment.
• Team Management: Lead a team of data engineers and provide coaching and mentorship to build a positive and collaborative culture, fostering the professional growth of your staff.
• Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with the Director, Master Data Products to understand the roadmap and translate business needs into scalable data engineering solutions.
• Pipeline Development: Develop and maintain data pipelines to ensure seamless and accurate data flow from transactional systems (e.g., EPIC) to the GCP analytical environment.
• Data Governance & Quality: Ensure compliance with data governance, security policies, and data quality frameworks by building robust validation and standardization checks into master data pipelines.
• Technical Standards: Consistently define and apply GCP‑centric technologies, standards, and data engineering best practices.
• Delivery Management: Manage the portfolio of requirements for your team, coordinating activities with the MDM platform team, architecture, and business customers to ensure timely and quality delivery of master data assets.
• Advisory Role: Act as a trusted technical advisor to analytics and data science teams, solving complex master data challenges and ensuring data is structured to support high‑performance analytics.
• Continuous Improvement: Embrace new cloud technologies (specifically within GCP), perform and support unit/integration testing,and drive improvements in people, processes, and technology.

Qualifications

Required Education

• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or relevant degree)

Preferred Education

• Master’s Degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or relevant degree)

Required Work Experience

• 7+ years of data development and engineering experience.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience managing data engineering teams.
• 3+ years of deep, hands‑on experience with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem.
• 3+ years of experience in cloud‑based data warehouses (strongly prefer Google BigQuery; Snowflake is a plus).
• 3+ years of experience with cloud‑based ETL/ELT data integration tools and building scalable data pipelines.
• Experience or strong familiarity with Master Data Management (MDM) concepts, data quality, and handling complex master data domains (Patient, Client, Test, etc.).

Preferred Work Experience

• Experience in the healthcare or life sciences industry.
• Exposure to version control systems (Git, SVN).
• Understanding of and willingness to embrace Agile Principles (Scrum).

Knowledge

• Demonstrated knowledge of SQL and modern data programming languages (Python, Scala, Java).
• Strong understanding of master data architecture, data modeling, and data lifecycle management in a cloud environment.

Skills

• Cloud Data Engineering (GCP)
• Data Warehousing (BigQuery)
• Data Quality & Integration
• Coding & Scripting
• Critical Thinking
• Leadership & Mentoring
• Business Communication

Training Or Professional Licensing

• Certifications in cloud solutions, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Data Engineer.
• Agile or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.

About The Team

Quest Diagnostics honors our service members and encourages veterans to apply.

While we appreciate and value our staffing partners, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Quest will not be responsible for paying agency fees for any individual as to whom an agency has sent an unsolicited resume.

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