Senior Data Engineer: Medicaid Encounter Processing Platform

ZealHire Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. seeks a Senior Data Engineer to be the primary technical owner for an enterprise data processing framework supporting Medicaid Encounter Processing. You will maintain and enhance the system, ensure reliability, and coordinate deployments on the Cloudera Data Platform.

The role requires 7+ years of distributed data processing experience, strong Scala and Spark skills, and experience with CDP, Hive, and Drools. Collaboration with infrastructure and cloud teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience developing enterprise-scale distributed data processing applications.
• Strong hands-on development experience with Scala.
• Experience developing applications using Apache Spark 2.x and/or Spark 3.x.
• Experience developing and maintaining applications running on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) 7.x or equivalent enterprise Hadoop distributions.
• Experience with Apache Hive 3.x for data processing and Hive table management.
• Experience implementing business rules using the Drools Rules Engine.
• Strong SQL development and query optimization skills.
• Experience supporting Linux-based production environments.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed Spark applications in production.
• Experience using Git and modern version control practices.

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 issue investigation and application defect resolution.
• Own production releases, version management, and deployment coordination.
• Own application performance tuning and optimization.
• Own technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer.
• Provide basic operational administration and monitoring of the Cloudera Data Platform while coordinating with infrastructure and cloud operations teams.

Skills

Distributed data processing

Scala development

Spark troubleshooting

SQL optimization

Version control (Git)

Linux environments

Tools

Scala

Apache Spark

Hive

Drools

Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)

Git

Job description

ZealHire Inc. seeks a Senior Data Engineer to be the primary technical owner for an enterprise data processing framework supporting Medicaid Encounter Processing. You will maintain and enhance the system, ensure reliability, and coordinate deployments on the Cloudera Data Platform.

The role requires 7+ years of distributed data processing experience, strong Scala and Spark skills, and experience with CDP, Hive, and Drools. Collaboration with infrastructure and cloud teams is essential.