Job Description

Senior Data Engineer




Position Summary:




The Senior Data Engineer leads complex data engineering projects, working on designing data architectures that align with business requirements. This role focuses on optimizing data workflows, managing data pipelines, and ensuring the smooth operation of data systems.




Minimum Qualifications:


8+ Years overall IT experience with minimum 5 years of work experience in below tech skills


Tech Skills:


Strong experience in Python Scripting and PySpark for data processing


Proficiency in SQL, dealing with big data processing


Proven experience in data processing for data lake in Iceberg format, with strong understanding of architecture


Experience in AWS Glue jobs


Experience in AWS cloud platform and its data services (S3, Redshift, Lambda, EMR, Airflow, Postgres, SNS, Event bridge)


Expertise in BASH/Shell scripting


Strong understanding of healthcare Finance systems and experience leading data engineering teams


Experience in Agile environments.


Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.


Effective communication and collaboration skills.




Responsibilities:


Leads development of data pipelines and architectures that handle large-scale data sets.


Designs, constructs, and tests data architecture aligned with business requirements.


Provides technical leadership for data projects, ensuring best practices and high-quality data solutions.


Collaborates with product, finance, and other business units to ensure data pipelines meet business requirements.


Oversees development of data solutions that enable predictive and prescriptive analytics.


Ensures the technical quality of solutions, managing data as it moves across environments.


Aligns data architecture to Healthfirst solution architecture.

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth -- one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.



Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.



Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.