Senior Data Engineer: Cloud Pipelines & Data Solutions Leader

Blue Shield of CA; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to independently design, build, and operate complex data pipelines and cloud data solutions. You will embed security, automation, and reliability across the SDLC while ensuring production readiness and operational excellence.

This hands-on technical leader role requires collaboration, mentoring, and adherence to engineering standards across data products. You will contribute to best practices and support continuous improvement across people,

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Requires a minimum of 5 years of relevant data engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL, including scripting and automation.
• Expertise with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and services such as ADLS, Synapse, and Data Factory.
• Hands-on experience with modern data stack tools such as dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, or Tidal.
• Solid knowledge of data modeling (Data Vault 2.0), data integration, data architecture, warehousing, and data quality.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Bitbucket, GitHub).
• Strong understanding of agile delivery methodologies and enterprise cloud integration.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in healthcare or regulated environments, including Epic ecosystem exposure preferred.
• Awareness of data governance, security standards, and production certification processes.

Skills

SQL

Automation

Agile delivery

Communication

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure

ADLS

Synapse

Data Factory

dbt

Snowflake

Databricks

Airflow

Tidal

Data Vault 2.0

Job description

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to independently design, build, and operate complex data pipelines and cloud data solutions. You will embed security, automation, and reliability across the SDLC while ensuring production readiness and operational excellence.

This hands-on technical leader role requires collaboration, mentoring, and adherence to engineering standards across data products. You will contribute to best practices and support continuous improvement across people,