Data Engineer (Pyspark) Jobs

About Benefitfocus:

Benefitfocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNFT) is a leading provider of cloud-based benefits software solutions for consumers, employers, insurance carriers and brokers. Benefitfocus has served numerous consumers on its platform that consists of an integrated portfolio of products and services enabling clients to more efficiently shop, enroll, manage and exchange benefits information. With a user-friendly interface and consumer-centric design, the Benefitfocus Platform provides one place for consumers to access all their benefits. Benefitfocus solutions support the administration of all types of benefits including core medical, dental and other voluntary benefits plans as well as wellness programs.

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The Data Foundation Team at Benefitfocus is seeking an experienced senior data engineer to join their exciting and talented team of engineers.

As a Data Engineer, you will be collaborating to build a robust and highly performant data platform using cutting-edge technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Implements high priority application software and infrastructure covering database design, epic, feature and story development, re-usable code, components and application functionality.
• Performs tech design reviews, code reviews and demos for the scrum teams.
• As the technical lead for a project, works with the scrum team to assist developers and monitor their progress against project milestones.
• Additional responsibilities, as required.
• Mentors other team members in application development techniques and implementation.
• Provides scheduling estimates and assists with the scheduling process.
• Evaluates performance of key elements of the application functionality and tunes the performance to cover the range of customer use.
• Works with a high velocity team of engineers and architects to define the application architecture and create software design for key elements of the application.
• Provides input to managers on the performance of team members for use in their reviews and participates in the interview.

Experience and Skills:

• Snowflake and DBT experience.
• Proficient with CI/CD using git repositories with Jenkins Pipelines or equivalent.
• 5+ years of data engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree or comparable work experience in software development.
• Passion for data and data technologies (OLTP, OLAP, Big Data, ETL, ELT, etc.).
• 3+ years of hands-on distributed computing development experience using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Databricks.
• 8-12 years of experience in software development recommended in addition to education requirements.
• 3+ years of experience implementing AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud services.

• This corresponds to BF Engineer III, Software