Children's National Medical Center
Senior Data Engineer
Children's National Medical Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, 20900
Overview
The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and operationalizing advanced cloud data pipelines to facilitate seamless data consumption for reports, advanced analytics, and AI initiatives. This role involves overseeing the entire data lifecycle, including data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality assurance. The Senior Data Engineer ensures the optimization and orchestration of data pipelines to handle high-volume and high-performance requirements effectively. In addition to cloud-native engineering, this role plays a critical part in data modernization efforts, including data migrations from legacy systems into modern electric health record systems, developing and managing data extracts and conversions, and ensuring alignment within a standard data architecture. A strong understanding of HL7 interfaces is essential to support interoperability and real-time data exchange across clinical systems. The Senior Data Engineer also leads efforts in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), driving automation and deployment efficiency. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to align data solutions with business needs, provide strategic insights, and mentor junior team members, all while upholding best practices and ensuring data integrity. Qualifications
Bachelor\'s Degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science). (Required) Minimum Work Experience: 6 years - Requires deep functional knowledge with 6+ years of related experience or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position. (Required) Experience with big data; data processing and cloud technologies. Strong experience diagnosing system issues, engaging in data validation, and providing quality assurance testing. Experience with data manipulation; Data mining. Experience working in production cloud infrastructure. Experience with C#, Java, Python, SQL programming languages; knowledge of programming concepts and tools. Knowledge of Microsoft Azure; Databricks or equivalent. Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty. Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to work independently. Demonstrated analytical skills. Demonstrated project management skills. Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure. Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision-making skills. Great verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate complex findings clearly. Great facilitation ability to host sessions and elicit ideas from others, encouraging group participation. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams; adapt to changing priorities and thrive in a dynamic environment. Functional Accountabilities: See below. Functional Accountabilities
Guide the design and implementation of complex data management procedures around data staging, ingestion, preparation, provisioning, destruction, automation scripts. Provide guidance to data engineering in the design, development, implementation, testing, documentation, and preparation of large-scale, high-volume data structures for business intelligence analysts. Design, develop and maintain real-time processing applications and pipelines. Ensure quality of technical solutions as data moves across environments. Provide senior level knowledge and insight into the changing cloud data environment, data processing, data storage, and utilization requirements; drive the team toward viable solutions. Develop, construct, test, and maintain architectures using advanced programming languages and tools. Drive ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality; deploy solutions; identify automation opportunities. Performs other duties as assigned. Complies with all policies and standards. Primary Location
Maryland-Silver Spring Work Locations
Inventa Towers 1 Inventa Place Silver Spring 20910 Job
Information Technology Organization
Position Status : R (Regular) - FT - Full-Time Shift : Day Work Schedule : 8:30-5P Job Posting
Sep 25, 2025, 8:21:57 PM Full-Time Salary Range
109116.8 - 181854.4 Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here: Know Your Rights Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster. Please note that it is the policy of Children\'s National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances. Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children\'s National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.
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The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and operationalizing advanced cloud data pipelines to facilitate seamless data consumption for reports, advanced analytics, and AI initiatives. This role involves overseeing the entire data lifecycle, including data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality assurance. The Senior Data Engineer ensures the optimization and orchestration of data pipelines to handle high-volume and high-performance requirements effectively. In addition to cloud-native engineering, this role plays a critical part in data modernization efforts, including data migrations from legacy systems into modern electric health record systems, developing and managing data extracts and conversions, and ensuring alignment within a standard data architecture. A strong understanding of HL7 interfaces is essential to support interoperability and real-time data exchange across clinical systems. The Senior Data Engineer also leads efforts in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), driving automation and deployment efficiency. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to align data solutions with business needs, provide strategic insights, and mentor junior team members, all while upholding best practices and ensuring data integrity. Qualifications
Bachelor\'s Degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science). (Required) Minimum Work Experience: 6 years - Requires deep functional knowledge with 6+ years of related experience or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position. (Required) Experience with big data; data processing and cloud technologies. Strong experience diagnosing system issues, engaging in data validation, and providing quality assurance testing. Experience with data manipulation; Data mining. Experience working in production cloud infrastructure. Experience with C#, Java, Python, SQL programming languages; knowledge of programming concepts and tools. Knowledge of Microsoft Azure; Databricks or equivalent. Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty. Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to work independently. Demonstrated analytical skills. Demonstrated project management skills. Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure. Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision-making skills. Great verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate complex findings clearly. Great facilitation ability to host sessions and elicit ideas from others, encouraging group participation. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams; adapt to changing priorities and thrive in a dynamic environment. Functional Accountabilities: See below. Functional Accountabilities
Guide the design and implementation of complex data management procedures around data staging, ingestion, preparation, provisioning, destruction, automation scripts. Provide guidance to data engineering in the design, development, implementation, testing, documentation, and preparation of large-scale, high-volume data structures for business intelligence analysts. Design, develop and maintain real-time processing applications and pipelines. Ensure quality of technical solutions as data moves across environments. Provide senior level knowledge and insight into the changing cloud data environment, data processing, data storage, and utilization requirements; drive the team toward viable solutions. Develop, construct, test, and maintain architectures using advanced programming languages and tools. Drive ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality; deploy solutions; identify automation opportunities. Performs other duties as assigned. Complies with all policies and standards. Primary Location
Maryland-Silver Spring Work Locations
Inventa Towers 1 Inventa Place Silver Spring 20910 Job
Information Technology Organization
Position Status : R (Regular) - FT - Full-Time Shift : Day Work Schedule : 8:30-5P Job Posting
Sep 25, 2025, 8:21:57 PM Full-Time Salary Range
109116.8 - 181854.4 Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The “Know Your Rights” poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here: Know Your Rights Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster. Please note that it is the policy of Children\'s National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances. Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children\'s National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.
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