Sr. Data Engineer

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to lead a collaborative reporting and data engineering team. This role involves building and maintaining regulated data pipelines that support quality and regulatory reporting requirements, directly impacting outcomes for millions of members.

Responsibilities:

• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to design, develop, modify, or integrate complex information systems
• Devises or modifies application systems and procedures to optimize functional requirements including capacity, operating time, response time, and form of desired results
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents programs, subroutines, and scripts
• Develops and implements program/system test plans. Devises data verification methods and standard system procedures
• Responds to system failures and performance events by taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of problems
• May conduct research on software and hardware products to justify recommendations and support management in budgeting and purchasing efforts
• Acts as expert technical resource to development staff in all phases of the development and implementation process

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience required. Equivalent years of experience are determined as one year of technical experience for every year of college requested
• 1 year - Experience with information technology concepts, application development methodology, terminology, and standards required
• 5 years - Systems and programming experience required
• 1 year - Expert working knowledge of at least one programming language in use at BCBST
• Proven skill with information technology in use at BCBST is required
• Proven analysis, design, and coding skills, and demonstrated success in leading large and complex projects
• Top level technical experience in one or more specialized areas of applications systems analysis and programming
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and translate technical and/or or complex concepts into information meaningful to project team members and/or business personnel
• Be organized, reliable, and able to manage multiple tasks with exceptional work ethic
• Leadership skills
• Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical co-workers
• Programming experience with SQL or equivalent programming language required
• Experience leading data engineering work in a cloud-based environment (preferably GCP), with strong hands-on proficiency in Azure DevOps, Python, and SQL
• A track record of building and deploying automated, production-ready data pipelines with an emphasis on governance, reliability, and compliance
• Experience working with health plan or healthcare claims data, ideally supporting quality, HEDIS, CMS, or regulatory reporting
• A collaborative leadership mindset, with the ability to mentor team members, set data engineering standards, and partner effectively with quality and business stakeholders
• Excitement for using AI to drive enterprise transformation, particularly by enabling self-service analytics and AI-driven exploration that empower business partners to investigate performance gaps and identify improvement opportunities
• Experience with regulatory or accrediting body requirements (i.e., NCQA, URAC, EQRO,CMS) and non-clinical quality improvement experience
• Supervisory and Team Lead experience