Sr Data Engineer

This Senior Data Engineer role provides lead technical contributions to the Diabetes Data Dock, a diabetes-focused data intelligence platform supporting the Rising T1DE Alliance (RTA). The position is based in Kansas City and centers on building and sustaining scalable cloud-native data pipelines in Microsoft Azure and Databricks to support clinical outcome prediction and patient-generated health data ingestion.

Role Overview

The work is grant-funded diabetes activity for the Rising T1DE Alliance (RTA). Children’s Mercy KC was the founder of RTA and continues to support the technical and data efforts. This role helps drive ongoing technical development of the Diabetes Data Dock, which functions as the technical foundation for RTA initiatives, including prediction of clinical outcomes and ingestion and monitoring of patient-generated health data.

The Diabetes Data Dock is built using Microsoft Azure and Databricks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and integration of data platform pipelines and processes by partnering with stakeholders and architects to incorporate emerging technologies.
• Deliver scalable, cloud-native data pipelines aligned with business and analytics goals, owning end-to-end workflow implementation.
• Translate requirements into technical solutions in collaboration with stakeholders, and partner with architects to evolve platform capabilities over time.
• Integrate emerging technologies and optimize pipelines for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Conduct thorough testing of processes to support continuous accuracy and reliability.
• Establish automated testing frameworks and implement monitoring tools to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
• Lead debugging efforts and perform code reviews, working with analysts and architects to meet business and compliance standards.
• Maintain technical capability through professional development, cross-functional collaboration, research into modern practices, and proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Support team growth through mentoring and knowledge sharing, contributing to platform strategy through cross-functional collaboration and thought leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Option 1: Master’s Degree in Healthcare Data Science (or similar) and 3–5 years of data engineering experience, including cloud-native development, distributed systems, and data architecture (or related experience).
• Option 2: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field and 5–7 years of data engineering experience, including cloud-native development, distributed systems, and data architecture (or related experience).

Technology Focus

• Microsoft Azure
• Databricks

Location

Kansas City, MO (onsite)

Compensation

USD 48 per hourly (starting pay range begins at $48.12/hr; offer determined based on education and experience).

Employment and Immunization Requirements

• Seasonal influenza vaccination is a condition of employment.
• New employees must be willing to be vaccinated if found non-immune to MMR and chicken pox (varicella) and/or without evidence of Tdap vaccination since 2005.
• Selected candidates will be asked to supply immunization records as proof of vaccination.
• Medical and religious exemptions may be discussed with Human Resources.

Benefits and Equal Opportunity

• Benefits plans are designed to meet the changing needs of employees and their families.
• Children’s Mercy is an EEO employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, creed, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, or veteran status.
• A drug screen will be performed upon hire.
• Children’s Mercy is smoke and tobacco free.
• Hiring decisions consider skills, expertise, professional relationships, interview, formal education and training, previous work experience, references, and criminal background investigation.