Associate Data Engineer II

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is seeking an Associate Data Engineer II to join their Data Engineering team. This role involves building and optimizing data pipelines for system and vendor integrations, as well as enterprise analytics, while collaborating with various stakeholders to deliver reliable data solutions using modern cloud technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research to design, develop, modify, or integrate moderately complex information systems
• Devises or modifies application systems and procedures to optimize functional requirements including capacity, operating time, response time, and form of desired results
• Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents programs, subroutines, and scripts
• Must be competent to work on most phases of applications systems analysis, and must maintain technical skill set for software languages, databases, platforms, operating systems, etc
• Responds to system failures and performance events by taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of problems
• Provides services to multiple project teams or management staff, provides guidance to less-experienced programmers, and may conduct presentations to provide end users with knowledge to maximize their use of developed systems
• May serve one or more project team roles, such as project lead, business systems analyst, or technical lead, for small to medium efforts

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience required. Equivalent years of experience are determined as one year of technical experience for every year of college requested
• A minimum of 2 years of programming experience is required. However, a Master's degree in Computer Science, Data and Analytics, Information Technology, or a related technical field can substitute for this experience requirement
• 1 year of professional or academic working knowledge of at least one programming language in use at BCBST
• Proven skill with information technology in use at BCBST is required
• Excellent oral and written communication skills