Senior Data Engineer — Remote | Spark/Scala & Medicaid Data

CSS Staffing; Lincoln (NE); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CSS Staffing is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for remote work to maintain and enhance the enterprise data processing framework supporting Medicaid Encounter Processing. You will own the Scala/Spark application framework, Drools rule implementation, and data ingestion pipelines, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational continuity across CDP and Hadoop environments.

The role requires deep expertise across Scala, Spark, Hive, Drools, and CDP with responsibility for production operations,

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of 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.
• 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

Scala

Apache Spark

Hive

Drools

SQL

Git

Linux administration

Production debugging

Tools

Cloudera Data Platform (CDP)

Hadoop

IBM DataStage

Jira

Confluence

Job description

CSS Staffing is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for remote work to maintain and enhance the enterprise data processing framework supporting Medicaid Encounter Processing. You will own the Scala/Spark application framework, Drools rule implementation, and data ingestion pipelines, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational continuity across CDP and Hadoop environments.

The role requires deep expertise across Scala, Spark, Hive, Drools, and CDP with responsibility for production operations,