Senior Lead Data Engineer

at  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

ABOUT BLUE CROSS

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota is one of the most recognized and trusted health care brands in the world with 2.5 million members. We’re committed to reinventing health care to improve health for our members and the community. We hope you’ll join us.

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

• As a technical expert, leads creation and review of highly complex data solutions enforcing best practices, processes and standards for user story development, data analysis, architecture, modeling, design, coding, testing, deployment and scheduling.
• Advocates for the broad education and understanding of the corporate data strategy within the department and enterprise including varying levels of leadership within the organization as needed seeking collaborative opportunities as appropriate.
• Leads or oversees the execution of the data management lifecycle to enable business data analytics.
• Performing lead functions (e.g., providing work direction, monitoring work, providing feedback, coaching/mentoring as needed).
• Design and develop prototypes or final data solutions to enable the measurement or monitoring of key performance indicators.
• Responsible for identifying and/or making significant improvement enhancements to existing artifacts to align with enterprise strategy or to improve user experience.
• Ensure test environment and data readiness is appropriate for support and project deliverables.
• Accountable for complex test cases in interdependent enterprise systems based on system requirements and technical design documentation, using automation to the fullest extent.
• Execution and maintenance of manual and/or automated test cases and scripts, as assigned.
• Analyzes test results and documents defects and issues using the Incident Management Process.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

• 5+ years of related professional experience. All relevant experience including work, education, transferable skills, and military experience will be considered.
• Experience developing medium complex data integration solutions using two or more of data management software tools.
• Experienced knowledge in data analysis using SQL, user story development, data warehouse design and modeling (3rd normal form or dimensional modeling), data integration design and development and/or performance tuning.
• Knowledgeable in data warehouse market best practices, development standards and methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to play multiple roles for different projects, e.g., planning/architecting and overseeing development for some projects, being a hands-on technical resource for others.
• Not only leading and working on strategic and tactical projects, but also understand the importance of details and remaining hands-on to data applications/solution business enablement.
• Experienced in work estimation, design review and code review.
• Strong skills in cross team coordination for project execution and issue resolution, as well as working with contracting vendor onsite and offshore.
• Demonstrated oral/written communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate medium complexity technical information.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, motivate and lead teams with diverse cultural and professional background.
• Experience in mentoring and coaching junior developers in problem solving and critical thinking efforts.

This position is responsible for providing technical and resource leadership to enable data analytics with structured and unstructured data. Responsibilities includes leading or executing user story development, data design and architecture, data integration development, testing or BI application delivery in the data analytics framework including surrounding enablement environments. This lead senior role will collaborate and/or partner with business areas, project teams, IT technical teams, as well as outsourced vendors to ensure high quality delivery of data architecture and data integration applications focusing on business analytical enablement for medium to large project or support efforts.