Principal Data Engineer (Healthcare)

If you are passionate about making a difference in the work you do, being recognized for your talent and expertise in solving complex and challenging analytical/data problems while contributing to the success of key strategic initiatives, consider growing your career with a Fortune 5 healthcare leader!

Be a key member of the Data and Analytics Group. Work with a variety of business partners from across the enterprise to both support the development of innovative programs to improve patient outcomes as well as reduce cost and improve efficiency across CVS. You will enable data-driven strategic decision-making and identify opportunities for existing product improvement and new product development.

Your experience will include translating business needs into analytic questions, using new tools and technologies in Cloud Platform - GCP and BQ. You will use languages such as Python and SQL to access data and develop semantic data layers, metrics, reports and Tableau dashboards.

In this exciting role, you will design and conduct rigorous analyses of pharmacy claims, medical claims and other data translating your analytic findings for appropriate business and customer audiences.

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be responsible for data stewardship in improving the quality and usage of data in Enterprise Data Warehouse and source systems, and ensuring high levels of data quality in source systems and data warehouse platforms across the enterprise. You will analyze, evaluate, test, and participate in designing the integration of multiple data sources into the data warehouse, remediation of data deficiencies in warehouse environments. You will use your strong communication skills and understanding of data modeling concepts to collaborate with members of the business, operations and IT teams in order to understand requirements and research data anomalies and to ensure consistency and quality. You will also test newly developed functionality to ensure the highest level of data quality exists upon delivery.

Required Qualifications
6+ years of experience in data analysis, developing analytic and reporting methodology in Cloud Platform, Teradata and other big data platforms

7+ years of experience using SQL or Python to access, extract, manipulate and summarize data.

COVID Requirements
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
CVS Health requires its Colleagues in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, pregnancy, or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.

• If you are vaccinated, you are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status within the first 10 days of your employment. For the two COVID-19 shot regimen, you will be required to provide proof of your second COVID-19 shot within the first 45 days of your employment. Failure to provide timely proof of your COVID-19 vaccination status will result in the termination of your employment with CVS Health.

• If you are unable to be fully vaccinated due to disability, medical condition, pregnancy, or religious belief, you will be required to apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment in order to remain employed with CVS Health. As a part of this process, you will be required to provide information or documentation about the reason you cannot be vaccinated. If your request for an accommodation is not approved, then your employment may be terminated.

Preferred Qualifications

• Independent, curious, eager to tackle a wide variety of problems, and able to quickly develop knowledge and understanding of new domains and underlying data sources.
• Experience as a project lead with cross-functional teams to develop innovative analytic approaches leveraging all available internal and external data sources.
• Excellent project management skills and ability to deliver in the fast-paced evolving environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience developing, testing, documenting and maintaining standardized outcome metrics meeting diverse business needs.
• Experience developing, implementing, testing, and maintaining methodologies for standardized and repeatable reporting for internal and external audiences.
• Ability to interact with and influence decision-making by non-analytical business audiences.
• Experience in test-and-learn analytic concepts as applied to patient communications in a healthcare or related setting.
• Working knowledge of statistical methods.

Education
Bachelor's degree is required preferably in computer science or engineering or related field
Advanced degree in a qualitative field or MBA is preferred or in a related field

Business Overview
At CVS Health, we are joined in a common purpose: helping people on their path to better health. We are working to transform health care through innovations that make quality care more accessible, easier to use, less expensive and patient-focused. Working together and organizing around the individual, we are pioneering a new approach to total health that puts people at the heart.

We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, ethnicity, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status or on any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.