Associate Data Engineer

$61,800 - $123,600/Yr

CVS Health - Irving, TX

Full-time - Entry Level

Irving, TX

Health and Personal Care Retailers

About the position

The Associate Data Engineer at CVS Health plays a crucial role in leveraging extensive healthcare data to support data-driven business decisions. This position involves designing, developing, and maintaining data pipelines that handle large datasets, ensuring data quality and accessibility. The role emphasizes collaboration with cross-functional teams to create tools that provide actionable insights, ultimately contributing to the mission of delivering innovative healthcare solutions.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in the development of large-scale data structures and pipelines to organize, collect, and standardize data for insights and reporting needs.
• Writing ETL (Extract / Transform / Load) processes, designing database systems, and developing tools for analytic processing.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to transform data and integrate with other systems using automated processes.
• Using programming skills in Python or other major languages to build robust data pipelines and dynamic systems.
• Building data marts and data models to support clients and internal customers.
• Integrating data from various sources while ensuring adherence to data quality and accessibility standards.

Requirements

• Experience with SQL.
• Proficiency in Python or a comparable scripting language.
• Familiarity with data warehouses, including data modeling and technical architectures.
• Experience with ETL/ELT processes and building high-volume data pipelines.
• Knowledge of reporting and analytic tools.
• Understanding of query optimization, data structures, transformation, metadata, dependency, and workload management.
• Experience with big data and cloud architecture.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using tools like BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Dataproc, and Dataflow.
• Knowledge of AI and ML tools, such as Vertex AI and scikit-learn.
• Experience building APIs in Python.
• Experience building large-scale applications and high-volume data pipelines.
• Working knowledge of orchestration tools, such as Apache Airflow.
• Ability to understand complex systems and solve challenging analytical problems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and critical thinking ability.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills within and across teams.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Fully-paid term life insurance plan.
• Short-term and long-term disability benefits.
• Well-being programs.
• Education assistance and free development courses.
• CVS store discount and discount programs with participating partners.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays.