Work Model: Remote

Allows Relocation: N/A

SUMMARY

The Senior Data Engineer will serve as the primary technical owner responsible for the ongoing maintenance, enhancement, operational support, and reliability of Nebraska's enterprise data processing framework supporting Medicaid Encounter Processing and enterprise data ingestion.

This mission-critical platform processes provider, member, reference, and encounter data used by downstream Medicaid systems and reporting. The application framework is developed using Scala, Apache Spark, Hive, and Drools and operates on the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).

Following the State's migration from an Apache open-source Hadoop environment to Cloudera Data Platform, this position will assume primary responsibility for maintaining the production code base, implementing business and regulatory changes, supporting production operations, resolving application defects, and performing routine operational administration of the data processing environment.

This position serves as the single primary technical owner of the application framework and is expected to maintain sufficient expertise across the complete technology stack—including Scala, Apache Spark, Hive, Drools, and the Cloudera Data Platform—to ensure the ongoing reliability, maintainability, and operational continuity of this mission-critical system.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

·        Own the Scala/Spark application framework supporting Medicaid Encounter Processing.

·        Own the Drools business rule implementation and ongoing rule maintenance.

·        Own enterprise data ingestion processes for master data and source system files.

·        Own Spark and Hive batch processing workflows.

·        Own production issue investigation and application defect resolution.

·        Own production releases, version management, and deployment coordination.

·        Own application performance tuning and optimization.

·        Own technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer.

·        Provide basic operational administration and monitoring of the Cloudera Data Platform while coordinating with infrastructure and cloud operations teams.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required: 

·        Minimum 7 years of experience developing enterprise-scale distributed data processing applications.

·        Strong hands-on development experience with Scala.

·        Experience developing applications using Apache Spark 2.x and/or Spark 3.x.

·        Experience developing and maintaining applications running on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) 7.x or equivalent enterprise Hadoop distributions.

·        Experience with Apache Hive 3.x for data processing and Hive table management.

·        Experience implementing business rules using the Drools Rules Engine.

·        Strong SQL development and query optimization skills.

·        Experience supporting Linux-based production environments.

·        Experience troubleshooting distributed Spark applications in production.

·        Experience using Git and modern version control practices.

Preferred: 

·        Medicaid or healthcare experience.

·        Experience with Medicaid Encounter Processing.

·        Experience with Cloudera Manager, HDFS, and YARN.

·        Experience integrating with IBM DataStage.

·        Familiarity with AWS infrastructure supporting Cloudera.

·        Experience with Agile, Jira, and Confluence.

PRE-EMPLOYEMENT & CLIENT SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Employment and/or client submission is contingent upon successful completion of required pre-employment screening and verification processes. These requirements include:

• Background check: Candidates must successfully complete the required background screening in accordance with company policy and applicable law.
• Drug screening: Candidates must successfully complete the required drug screening in accordance with company policy, applicable client requirements, and applicable law.
• Identity and location verification: Candidates may be required to complete identity and/or location verification using a secure verification tool prior to client submission.
• Employment eligibility: Candidates must provide appropriate documentation to verify employment eligibility as required by law.
• Qualification verification: Information provided during the application and recruiting process, including employment history, education, certifications, licenses, and professional references, may be verified as applicable.
• Additional client requirements: Additional screening, documentation, or verification may be required based on the client, position, work location, or applicable requirements.

All screening and verification activities will be conducted in accordance with applicable company policies, client requirements, and federal, state, and local laws.

BENEFITS

This is a contract opportunity with a great organization. As a contractor for Smith Johnson, you are eligible for medical, dental, life, disability. Smith Johnson pays for 70% of your medical and dental and 100% of life and disability. The contract is also eligible for PTO/holiday accrued monthly. You are also eligible for a 3% retirement matching plan. Smith Johnson believes in taking care of our contractors.