Senior Data Engineer
Senior
Analytics
Azure
Azure Data Factory
Business Analytics
Business Intelligence
Cloud Platforms
Data Analysis
Data Analytics
Data Architecture
Data Engineer
Data Integration
Data Pipeline
Data Platform
Data Processing
Data Visualization
Data Warehouse
Database
Databases
ETL
Microsoft Azure
Power BI
Reporting and Analytics
Sap Bods
Sap Data Services
SQL
Sql Databases
SSIS
Job Description
Delta Dental is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in Alpharetta, GA on a hybrid schedule. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining enterprise data engineering solutions, including ETL and ELT pipelines, data warehouse and data lake architectures, governance, and analytics. You will work with Azure, SAP Data Services, Oracle, and SQL Server, bringing at least five years of relevant experience and the ability to appear in the office as required. The position offers a compensation range of USD 160,056 to 165,056 per year.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement enterprise data engineering solutions to support business processes and analytical needs.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts, Architecture teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable data models, cloud data pipelines, and integration frameworks.
- Build data integration processes with SAP Data Services, SSIS, and Azure Data Factory to extract, transform, and load structured and unstructured data across heterogeneous systems.
- Develop and optimize data processing platforms using Microsoft Azure services, including Azure Data Factory and Azure SQL Database.
- Design end-to-end ETL and ELT pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and analytical data preparation; implement complex SQL logic, stored procedures, packages, and functions in Oracle and SQL Server.
- Develop and maintain data warehouse and data lake architectures using Star and Snowflake schema designs.
- Perform data profiling and data quality checks, enforcing governance standards to ensure integrity and compliance across the data lifecycle.
- Prototype solution designs for review with business and architecture teams; evaluate and select cloud technologies for ingestion, transformation, reporting, visualization, and analytics.
- Design and develop dashboards, KPIs, and visualizations using Power BI to support enterprise reporting needs.
- Automate manual workflows using Python and Unix shell scripting.
- Troubleshoot data pipeline failures, optimize performance, and resolve data-related issues to minimize business disruption.
- Participate in data architecture discussions, contributing to integration strategies and modernization efforts.
- Prepare technical design documents, mapping specifications, workflow diagrams, and solution architectures; ensure designs align with security and organizational standards.
- Support all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Mentor junior team members, sharing best practices, coding standards, and cloud data engineering methodologies.
- Must reside within a reasonable commuting distance from headquarters and be able to appear in the office as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, plus five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in ETL development or data engineering roles.
- Experience developing and optimizing entity relationship models using ERWIN and crafting advanced SQL queries to support analytics.
- Designing, developing, and tuning enterprise database schemas in Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, including tables, views, stored procedures, indexing strategies, and performance tuning.
- Building ETL and data integration workflows with SAP Data Services, SSIS, and Azure Data Factory, including pipelines, datasets, triggers, integration runtimes, and source-to-target mapping documents.
- Designing dimensional data models for OLTP and OLAP using Star and Snowflake schemas, applying normalization and denormalization practices.
- Developing automation scripts with Python and Unix shell scripting to streamline ingestion, transformation, validation, and cloud analytics processes.
- Creating interactive dashboards and reports with Power BI for operational and analytical insights.
- Enforcing data integrity, accuracy, and compliance via data quality checks, validation rules, and governance frameworks.
- Implementing data governance and quality processes, including profiling, reconciliation checks, error handling, and anomaly detection.
- Designing and managing scheduling and workflow automation using ADF triggers, Jenkins, SQL Server Agent, or TIDAL to orchestrate ETL and data pipelines.
- Using version control systems such as GitHub or SVN to manage source code and maintain consistency across ETL pipelines and cloud resources.
- Experience across all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, development, documentation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Ability to perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance optimization of SAP BODS jobs, SQL queries, ADF pipelines, and cloud-based data transformations.
Technologies
- SAP Data Services, SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database
- Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Power BI
- Python, Unix Shell scripting
- ERWIN, GitHub, SVN, Jenkins, SQL Server Agent, TIDAL
- SAP BODS, Star schema, Snowflake schema
Benefits
- Competitive base pay plus incentive compensation
- 401(k) with robust matching and additional contributions
- Comprehensive medical and prescription coverage
- 100 percent employer-paid dental and vision benefits
- Wellbeing program with meaningful financial incentives
- Generous paid time off, plus 12 paid holidays and your birthday off
- Culture focused on growth and learning with career development, tuition reimbursement, and a recognition program
- Family support including adoption assistance, fertility services, and care for children, elders, and pets
- Opportunities for social responsibility and volunteer involvement
- Employee discount program