Principal Data Engineer - Federal EAP Data Platform

Magellan Health; United States; Remote; USD 105,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company seeks a Principal Data Engineer to develop data pipelines and lead technical initiatives for the Federal EAP Data Platform. This role requires extensive experience in IT, critical thinking, and strong leadership skills while adhering to governance policies. The position offers competitive salary and benefits in a collaborative environment focused on innovation.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• 6+ years related experience, including 3-4 years in software development.
• Experience in designing and maintaining secure software.
• ServiceNow training is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Lead software development efforts and mentor team members.
• Ensure data governance and best practices are followed.

Skills

Agile

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's - Computer and Information Science

Job description

• The Principal Data and Integration Engineer will be responsible for developing ingestion and data pipelines for the new Federal EAP Data Warehouse using AWS S3 and Redshift.
• The ideal candidate will thrive in collaborative environments, capable of working in a dynamic data environment still in infancy with significant growth soon. The team moves fast with solutioning happening in AWS, Redshift, and Tableau.
• The candidate should have experience developing modern business intelligence products using cloud-native development strategies in AWS Redshift / S3. Medallion architecture experience is a plus.
• This person will be responsible for building ingestion processes, storage strategies, and developing data processing logic, while ensuring that our solution adheres to broader Magellan Data principles and architectures. All code will be managed and deployed in Github CICD pipelines.
• The candidate will lead and mentor other developers, providing leadership to our data team and guidance and coaching towards best practices and consistent solution approaches.
• Above all else, the candidate will act as a servant leader, supporting the development team and the organization with authenticity, integrity, and empathy.

This position will Lead agile software development efforts as a Technical Leader. This role will respond to audits and contribute to the RFP process. Ensure data governance and best practice is embraced. Responsible for understanding business and IT strategy to align with outcomes. Will be a hands-on Data and Integration Engineer who can write quality code, assist with problem solving, root cause analysis, trouble shooting and coaching. Must understand big picture from a business standpoint within the context of the application. Will define improvements to increase system reliability, security and performance. Perform rich data visualizations and presentations to senior management on value adds. May manage a team.

• Participate in defining strategic IT objectives and leading subordinates toward that strategic vision for their products.
• Acts as the primary focal point for both internal and external customers for software development tasks. This includes estimates of feasibility, time and effort of tasks.
• Provide updates to both the user community and the programmers.
• Monitor projects, determines potential problems and guides them to a successful completion.
• Ensure that all work is getting accomplished by making assignments and monitoring tasks. This includes balancing work between programmers, analysts, project managers, supervisors, and managers, and ensuring that the proper policies and procedures are being followed.
• Assists with budget preparation and management.
• Mentor and evaluate staff performance. - Continues to work hands-on doing programming and analysis work themselves.
• Tracks all project requests in functional area and updates status of projects on a regular basis.
• Assists in estimating work effort associated with new project requests.
• Assists in planning for the development and support of a functional systems area.
• Reviews and evaluates work of subordinate staff and prepares performance reports.
• Participates in planning and budgeting.

Other Job Requirements

Responsibilities

6+ years related experience including a minimum of 3-4 years of designing, building and maintaining high quality, secure software in IT.
Agile and Design Thinking (Coursera).
Critical thinker.
Demonstrated problem solving techniques.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
ServiceNow training.

General Job Information

Title

Principal Data Engineer - Federal EAP Data Platform

Grade

30

Work Experience - Required

IT

Work Experience - Preferred

Education - Required

A Combination of Education and Work Experience May Be Considered., Bachelor's, Bachelor's - Computer and Information Science

Education - Preferred

License and Certifications - Required

License and Certifications - Preferred

Salary Range

Salary Minimum:

$105,230

Salary Maximum:

$178,890

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law.

This position may be eligible for short-term incentives as well as a comprehensive benefits package. Magellan offers a broad range of health, life, voluntary and other benefits and perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing.

Magellan Health, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Tobacco-free workplace. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled.
Every employee must understand, comply with and attest to the security responsibilities and security controls unique to their position; and comply with all applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and internal policies and procedures.