Senior ETL Developer

Nationwide Children's Hospital; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH seeks a senior data integration engineer to lead the development, maintenance, and implementation of complex ETL pipelines across multiple sources, ensuring data quality, security, and reliability.

You will drive scalable, reusable data integration patterns, mentor teammates, and collaborate with stakeholders to align data initiatives with business goals and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Seven years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise data pipelines.
• Experience building scalable, reusable data integration patterns and influencing engineering practices.
• Extensive experience performing data driven root cause analysis and designing well tested, maintainable solutions.
• Experience working with sensitive data and applying secure development practices.
• Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development, maintenance, and implementation of complex ETL pipelines across sources.
• Drives scalable, metadata driven data integration patterns to reduce technical debt.
• Identifies root causes, risks, and opportunities for improvement across data solutions.
• Participates in establishing best practices for code reviews, testing, and documentation.
• Collaborates with teams to understand data requirements and ensures alignment with business goals.
• Maintains and enhances ETL platforms, cloud services, and data warehouse solutions.
• Mentors team members and shares knowledge on best practices.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL/ELT

Data warehousing

Analytics

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Master’s Degree

Tools

SQL

Python

Cloud services

Job description

Overview

Certification and/or demonstrated experience with Clarity and Caboodle preferred.

Job Description Summary

Leads the development, maintenance, and implementation of data integration solutions, ensuring reliable and high‑quality data pipelines and processes. Oversees complex data initiatives spanning multiple systems and stakeholders, mentors team members, and contributes to continuous improvement of data integration frameworks and practices.

Job Description

Essential Functions:

• Leads the development, maintenance, and implementation of complex ETL pipelines and processes across structured and unstructured data sources, ensuring accuracy, reliability, performance, and security.
• Drives the adoption of scalable, metadata driven, and reusable data integration patterns to reduce technical debt and improve long term maintainability.
• Identifies root causes, risks, and improvement opportunities across data solutions and processes.
• Participates in the establishment and advancement of best practices for code reviews, testing, peer programming, and documentation, ensuring compliance with quality, maintainability, and engineering standards.
• Collaborates with team members and stakeholders to understand data requirements and leads solution implementation, ensuring alignment with business goals and data quality standards.
• Maintains and enhances ETL platforms, cloud services, and vendor delivered data warehouse solutions.
• Mentors and supports team members through constructive feedback, knowledge sharing, and guidance on best practices, testing approaches, and problem-solving techniques.

Education Requirement

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Services, or related field, required.
• Master’s Degree, preferred.

Certifications

Relevant professional data or cloud certification, preferred.

Skills

• Expert knowledge of data engineering concepts, including ETL/ELT, data warehousing, and pipeline design.
• Advanced analytical, problem solving, and systems thinking skills, with the ability to explain reasoning and trade-offs clearly. Sound judgment and data driven reasoning.
• Demonstrated commitment to accuracy, quality, and attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with multiple teams and stakeholders across the organization.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to mentor and influence others through technical leadership rather than authority.

Experience

• Seven years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise data pipelines and analytics solutions, required.
• Experience building scalable, reusable data integration patterns and influencing engineering practices, required.
• Extensive experience performing data driven root cause analysis and designing well tested, maintainable solutions, required.
• Experience working with sensitive data and applying secure development practices, required.

Physical Requirements

OCCASIONALLY: Bend/twist, Climb stairs/ladder, Lifting / Carrying: 0-10 lbs, Pushing / Pulling: 0-25 lbs, Reaching above shoulder, Squat/kneel, Walking
FREQUENTLY: Flexing/extending of neck, Standing
CONTINUOUSLY: Audible speech, Color vision, Computer skills, Decision Making, Depth perception, Hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, Hearing acuity, Interpreting Data, Peripheral vision, Problem solving, Repetitive hand/arm use, Seeing – Far/near, Sitting

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