Remote Data Engineer - SQL & Python Pipelines

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Iowa (LA); 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, develop, and maintain data pipelines and platform infrastructure powering a self-service application, collaborating with senior engineers to modernize data ingestion, transformation, and serving.

The role supports data ingestion via Kafka, data modeling on Snowflake or other warehouses, and rigorous testing and CI/CD using GitHub Actions.

Qualifications

• 2 years of professional data engineering or software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in SQL including writing, optimizing, and troubleshooting complex queries against large datasets.
• Experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, or Databricks.
• Proficiency with Git-based version control and CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions).

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes using Python for reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Write and optimize SQL queries to support ingestion, transformation, troubleshooting, and validation across data warehouses.
• Contribute to data modeling and maintain datasets within Snowflake and related platforms.
• Integrate with Kafka-driven streams for real-time or near-real-time data ingestion under senior guidance.
• Write clean, well-tested code and ensure unit/integration test coverage for pipelines.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold team quality standards.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and validate deployment integrity.
• Implement logging and monitoring instrumentation and respond to production alerts during on-call rotation.

Skills

SQL

Python

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Azure Synapse Analytics

Databricks

Git

CI/CD

Kafka

Docker

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Docker

Job description

CVS Health is hiring a fully remote Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. You will design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and platform infrastructure powering a self-service application, collaborating with senior engineers to modernize data ingestion, transformation, and serving.

The role supports data ingestion via Kafka, data modeling on Snowflake or other warehouses, and rigorous testing and CI/CD using GitHub Actions.