Sr. Data Enterprise Engineer

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

Additional Information About the Role

BJC is hiring for a Enterprise Data Engineer. The Data Engineer develops, tests, and maintains reliable data pipelines and datasets that support reporting, analytics, and data science. This role integrates data from multiple sources, improves data quality and performance, and collaborates with architects, developers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to design and deliver maintainable data solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands‑on experience developing, testing, and maintaining ETL or ELT pipelines that integrate data from multiple sources.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational databases, including complex queries and query performance tuning.
• Experience using Python or another programming language for data transformation and automation.
• Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing concepts, and data quality validation.
• Experience troubleshooting data pipeline failures, identifying root causes, and supporting production data processes.
• Familiarity with version control, testing practices, and technical documentation.
• Strong problem‑solving and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with data scientists, architects, developers, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to participate in a scheduled, week‑long on‑call rotation, including after‑hours, weekend, and holiday coverage during assigned weeks.

Overview

BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri regions. With net revenues of $6.3billion and more than 30,000 employees, BJC serves patients and their families in urban, suburban and rural communities through its 14 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long‑term care and hospice.

BJC is the largest provider of charity care, unreimbursed care and community benefits in the state of Missouri. BJC and its hospitals and health service organizations provide $785.9 million annually in community benefit. That includes $410.6 million in charity care and other financial assistance to patients to ensure medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, BJC provides additional community benefits through commitments to research, emergency preparedness, regional health care safety net services, health literacy, community outreach and community health programs and regional economic development.

BJC’s patients have access to the latest advances in medical science and technology through a formal affiliation between Barnes‑Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital with the renowned Washington University School of Medicine, which consistently ranks among the top medical schools in the country.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building and optimizing complex data pipelines, platforms and architectures that support advance analytics, reporting, and operational systems across the enterprise. This role leads engineering efforts on large scale projects, collaborates cross functionally with architects, analysts and data scientists and mentors junior engineers to ensure data systems are scalable, secure and aligned with business needs. The position exists to enable high performance, trustworthy data ecosystems that power strategic decision making and innovation.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead the implementation of advanced data architectures and pipelines, ensuring data solutions meet enterprise performance, quality, and scalability requirements.
• Collaborate with data architects, analysts, and product stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into robust, maintainable data engineering solutions.
• Develop and enforce engineering best practices, including version control, CI/CD for data products, data quality checks, documentation standards, and reusable code modules.
• Mentor and support junior data engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and assistance with problem‑solving to strengthen team capabilities.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Experience

• 10+ years

Preferred Requirements

Supervisor Experience

• 2-5 years

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well‑being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

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*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer