Senior Enterprise Data Engineer & Platform Lead

BJC HealthCare; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) match

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

BJC HealthCare is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize complex data pipelines and platforms that support analytics, reporting, and data science across the enterprise.

You will collaborate with data architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver maintainable data solutions, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers. Participation in an on‑call rotation ensures production data reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience developing, testing, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines across multiple sources.
• Proficiency in SQL with relational databases; ability to write complex queries and tune performance.
• Experience using Python or another language for data transformation and automation.
• Understanding of data modeling, warehousing concepts and data quality validation.
• Experience troubleshooting data pipeline failures and supporting production data processes.
• Familiarity with version control, testing practices and technical documentation.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills; ability to collaborate with data scientists, architects, developers and stakeholders.
• Willingness to participate in a scheduled, week-long on-call rotation (after-hours, weekends, holidays).

Responsibilities

• Design and lead advanced data architectures and pipelines meeting performance, quality, and scalability requirements.
• Collaborate with data architects, analysts and product stakeholders to translate requirements into robust data solutions.
• Develop and enforce engineering best practices including CI/CD for data products, data quality checks, and documentation standards.
• Mentor and support junior data engineers with technical guidance and code reviews.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

BJC HealthCare is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize complex data pipelines and platforms that support analytics, reporting, and data science across the enterprise.

You will collaborate with data architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver maintainable data solutions, enforce best practices, and mentor junior engineers. Participation in an on‑call rotation ensures production data reliability.