Creative Information Technology, Inc.
Data Engineer - Baltimore City, MD
Falls Church, Virginia
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About the role
- We serve both government and commercial sectors, offering a range of solutions such as Healthcare IT, Human Services, Identity Credentialing, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Analytics.
- With clients in the US and abroad, we hold key contract vehicles including GSA IT Schedule 70, NIH CIO-SP3, GSA Alliant, and DHS-Eagle II.
- Join us in driving growth and seizing new business opportunities.
Requirements
- The candidate should have experience as data engineer or similar role with a strong understanding of data architecture and ETL processes.
- This position requires a bachelor's or master's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in computer science, statistics, mathematics, economics, or a related field.
- Three (3) years of equivalent experience in a related field may be substituted for the Bachelor's degree.
- Proven experience with Apache Spark (PySpark) for large-scale processing.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Glue, S3, Redshift, Athena, EMR, Lake Formation.
- Hands-on experience with Iceberg, Delta Lake, or other OTF table formats.
- Experience with Airflow or other pipeline orchestration frameworks.
- Practical experience in CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Practical experience with EDI X12, HL7, or FHIR data formats.
- Strong understanding of Medallion Architecture for data lake houses.
Nice to have
- Strong coding skills in Python and SQL (Scala or Java a plus).
Company info
- Creative Information Technology Inc (CITI) is an esteemed IT enterprise renowned for its exceptional customer service and innovation.
- Client is seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to design, develop, and optimize large-scale data pipelines in support of our Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Data Lake solutions.
- This role requires deep technical expertise in coding, pipeline orchestration, and cloud-native data engineering on AWS.
- The Data Engineer will be directly responsible for implementing ingestion, transformation, and integration workflows - ensuring data is high-quality, compliant, and analytics-ready.
- This role may support other projects or teams within MDH as needed.
- Role and Responsibilities
- Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines and infrastructure to support data-driven decisions and analytics.
- The individual is responsible for the following tasks:
- Design, develop and maintain data pipelines, and extract, transform, load (ETL) processes to collect, process and store structured and unstructured data
- Build data architecture and storage solutions, including data lakehouses, data lakes, data warehouse, and data marts to support analytics and reporting
- Develop data reliability, efficiency, and qualify checks and processes
- Prepare data for data modeling
- Monitor and optimize data architecture and data processing systems
- Collaboration with multiple teams to understand requirements and objectives
- Administer testing and troubleshooting related to performance, reliability, and scalability
- Create and update documentation
- Hands-On Data Pipeline Development
- Design, code, and deploy ETL/ELT pipelines across bronze, silver, and gold layers of the Data Lakehouse.
- Build ingestion pipelines for structured (SQL), semi-structured (JSON, XML), and unstructured data using PySpark/Python programming language using AWS Glue or EMR.
- Implement incremental loads, deduplication, error handling, and data validation.
- Actively troubleshoot, debug, and optimize pipelines for scalability and cost efficiency.
- EDW & Data Lake Implementation
- Develop dimensional data models (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema) for analytics and reporting.
- Build and maintain tables in Iceberg, Delta Lake, or equivalent OTF formats.
- Optimize partitioning, indexing, and metadata for fast query performance.
- Healthcare Data Integration
- Build ingestion and transformation pipelines for EDI X12 transactions (837, 835, 278, etc.).
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