Senior Data Engineer — Encounter Processing Platform

Novalink Solutions; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Novalink Solutions in Lincoln, NE, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to own the Medicaid Encounter Processing data platform, maintain production code, and implement regulatory changes. The role covers Scala/Spark, Hive, Drools, and CDP, with responsibility for performance, reliability, and operational continuity.

You will lead data ingestion, batch workflows, and releases, while coordinating with infrastructure and cloud teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience developing enterprise-scale distributed data processing applications.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Scala.
• Strong SQL development and query optimization skills.
• Experience developing applications on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) 7.x or equivalent.
• Experience with Apache Hive 3.x and Spark 2.x/3.x.

Responsibilities

• Own the Scala/Spark application framework supporting Medicaid Encounter Processing.
• Own the Drools business rule implementation and ongoing rule maintenance.
• Own enterprise data ingestion processes for master data and source system files.
• Own Spark and Hive batch processing workflows.
• Own production releases, version management, and deployment coordination.
• Own application performance tuning and optimization.
• Own technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Scala

Apache Spark

SQL

Linux

Distributed data processing

Tools

Git

Hadoop

Cloudera CDP

Hive

Drools

Jira

Confluence

AWS

Job description

Novalink Solutions in Lincoln, NE, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to own the Medicaid Encounter Processing data platform, maintain production code, and implement regulatory changes. The role covers Scala/Spark, Hive, Drools, and CDP, with responsibility for performance, reliability, and operational continuity.

You will lead data ingestion, batch workflows, and releases, while coordinating with infrastructure and cloud teams.