Remote Data Engineer: SQL & Python for Self-Service Platform

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; South Dakota; Hybrid; USD 64,890 - 173,040; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is hiring a fully remote Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. You will design, build, and maintain data pipelines and platform infrastructure powering a self-service data platform.

Work closely with senior engineers to modernize data ingestion, transformation, and delivery across the organization. You will develop reliable pipelines, optimize SQL queries, and contribute to Snowflake data modeling, Kafka streaming, and CI/CD processes.

Qualifications

• 2 years of professional data engineering or software development experience.
• Strong, demonstrated proficiency in SQL - including writing, optimizing, and troubleshooting complex queries against large datasets.
• Experience working with at least one cloud data warehouse or data platform (Snowflake, BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, or Databricks).
• Proficiency with Git-based version control, including branching, pull requests, and code review workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and participation in automated deployment workflows (GitHub Actions).

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using Python, contributing to reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Write and optimize SQL queries to support data ingestion, transformation, troubleshooting, and validation across the data warehouse.
• Contribute to data modeling efforts and help maintain the integrity and structure of datasets within the Snowflake data platform.
• Integrate with Kafka-driven event streams to support real-time and near-real-time data ingestion under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Write clean, well-tested code; ensure thorough unit and integration test coverage for pipeline components you build.
• Participate in code reviews, giving and receiving constructive feedback to uphold team quality standards.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and validate pipeline correctness post-deployment.
• Implement logging and observability instrumentation for pipelines you own, and respond to production alerts as part of team on-call rotation.
• Communicate blockers and progress clearly; escalate issues with appropriate urgency.
• Leverage AI development tools (Claude, Snowflake CoCo, Copilot) to improve development speed and code quality.
• Actively seek out mentorship and coaching from senior engineers; share learnings with teammates.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Snowflake

Kafka

DBT

Docker

GitHub Actions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Kafka

DBT

Docker

Terraform

Job description

CVS Health is hiring a fully remote Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. You will design, build, and maintain data pipelines and platform infrastructure powering a self-service data platform.

Work closely with senior engineers to modernize data ingestion, transformation, and delivery across the organization. You will develop reliable pipelines, optimize SQL queries, and contribute to Snowflake data modeling, Kafka streaming, and CI/CD processes.