Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer at Children's National Hospital

Children's National Hospital provided pay range

This range is provided by Children's National Hospital. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$109,116.80/yr - $181,854.40/yr

The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and operationalizing advanced cloud data pipelines to facilitate seamless data consumption for reports, advanced analytics, and AI initiatives. This role involves overseeing the entire data lifecycle, including data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality assurance. The Senior Data Engineer ensures the optimization and orchestration of data pipelines to handle high-volume and high-performance requirements effectively. Additionally, this role leads efforts in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), driving automation and deployment efficiency. The Senior Data Engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams to align data solutions with business needs, provide strategic insights, and mentor junior team members, all while upholding best practices and ensuring data integrity.

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science). (Required)

Minimum Work Experience

6 years Requires deep functional knowledge with 6+ years of related experience or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position. (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge

• Experience with big data; data processing and cloud technologies.
• Strong experience diagnosing system issues, engaging in data validation, and providing quality assurance testing.
• Experience with data manipulation; Data mining.
• Experience working in production cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with C# (programming language); Java (programming language); Programming concepts; Programming tools; Python (Programming Language); SQL (programming language).
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure; Databricks or equivalent.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
• Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to work independently.
• Demonstrated analytical skills.
• Demonstrated project management skills.
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.
• Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
• Great verbal and written communication skills, communicate complex findings in a clear and understandable manner.
• Great facilitation ability to host sessions and elicit ideas from others, understanding their issues and encourage group participation.
• Attention to detail.
• Communicate complex findings in a clear and understandable manner.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Adapt to changing priorities and thrive in a dynamic environment.
  

Functional Accountabilities

• Helps guide the design and implementation of complex data management procedures around data staging, data ingestion, data preparation, data provisioning, data destruction, (scripts, programs automation, assisted by automation etc.)
• Provides guidance to data engineering in the design, development, implementation, testing, documentation, and preparation of large scale, high volume, high performance data structures for business intelligence analysts.
• Designs, develops and maintains real time processing applications and real time data pipelines.
• Ensure quality of technical solutions as data moves across environments.
• Provides senior level knowledge and insight into the changing cloud data environment, data processing, data storage, and utilization requirements for the company and drives the team toward viable solutions.
• Develops, constructs, tests, and maintains architectures using advanced programming languages and tools.
• Drives ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality and deploys a solution; use data to discover tasks that can be automated.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
  

Organizational Accountabilities
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification

• Anticipate and respond to customer needs; follows up until needs are met.
  

Teamwork/Communication

• Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior.
• Partner with all team members to achieve goals.
• Receptive to others' ideas and opinions.
  

Performance Improvement/Problem-solving

• Contribute to a positive work environment.
• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change.
• Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes.
• Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment.
  

Cost Management/Financial Responsibility

• Use resources efficiently.
• Search for less costly ways of doing things.
  

Safety

• Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance.
• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation.
• Stop in the face of uncertainty and take time to resolve the situation.
• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication.
• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers.
• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance.
  

Primary Location: District of Columbia - Washington

Work Locations: Remote Work Location

Job: Information Technology

Organization: Miscellaneous

Position Status: R (Regular)

Shift: Day

Work Schedule: 8:30-5

Job Posting: Nov 26, 2025, 1:39:10 AM

Full-Time Salary Range: 109116.8

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Information Technology

Industries: Hospitals and Health Care

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