Sr. Data Engineer

CGI
Bloomfield, CT
19 Mar 2025

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Position Description: CGI is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer with a proven technical expertise to join its Healthcare Practice. The selected candidate will support Agile Application Development technologies and capabilities in the areas of software development, integration, and test of software applications and infrastructure.

Candidate must pursue modern software engineering practices (Continuous Integration, Specification by Example, Behavior / Test Driven Development - BDD, TDD) and respective tools, to become a part of a dynamic team located in Bloomfield, CT or Lafayette LA!

The candidate will have a good foundation with Spark, Python, SQL, Databricks / Glue, parquet, avro, kafka, AWS and ETL.

Should be exposed to a broad range of technologies across all layers of architecture.

Committed to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and quality products are important.

This is an exciting opportunity to augment your current skills, as well as learn new technologies. Your future duties and responsibilities: This Engineer will be a key contributor to our Digital practice and will have the below responsibilities:

Work with product owners to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios.

Continuously improve software engineering practices

Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full stack of development tools and technologies.

Write and execute unit tests.

Candidate would develop applications in AWS - data and analytics technologies including but not limited to Glue, EMR, Lambda, Step Functions, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, S3, VPC, EC2, RDS, IAM.

Candidate would need to do development using application development by lifecycles, & continuous integration/deployment practices.

Working to integrate open-source components into data-analytic solutions.

Working with vendors to enhance tool capabilities to meet enterprise needs.

Willingness to continuously learn & share learnings with others.

Design and develop solutions following established frameworks, application development standards and quality processes in projects.

Assess the impacts on technical design because of the changes in functional requirements.

Will work within a fast-paced Agile DevOps team contributing and collaborating with the scrum team on a daily basis.

Participate in all phases of Agile methodology (planning, grooming, coding sprint items).

Actively contribute to software development strategy and product roadmap specific to application development.

Drive solution design thought leadership, for a customer -centric perspective.

Ability to understand and translate business requirements into meaningful end to end solutions. Lead team in collaborative development of prototypes for demonstration of concepts

Understand functional specifications and use case designs.

Determine user requirement feasibility, supports solution design, project planning, establishes priorities and monitor's progress.

Implements technical changes to improve the team's effectiveness.

Plan out system enhancement implementation roadmap.

Resolve conflicting priority among projects and ad-hoc requests.

Coordinate with team resources to integrate project with other applications and releases and ensure appropriate skillset alignment and staffing.

Participate in and growing strategic partner relationships to support growing demands on the delivery organization.

Guide development resources through migration to Agile development methodologies

Required qualifications to be successful in this role: 10+ years of proven software development experience developing enterprise solutions.

6+ years of Data Engineering experience.

Enterprise level implementation and hands on experience in - Spark (PySpark preferred, Dataframe, Filters, UDF, Partition), SQL, Python

Hands-On implementation knowledge in - Databricks / Glue / Equivalent - Enterprise Scale data pipeline platform

Expertise in JSON, binary format transforms (parquet, avro), Streaming sources (kafka/kinesis), ETL, SQL - complex joins, grouping, etc.

Data Pipeline design skills

Knowledge on Cloud Data Engineering - AWS, S3, and other AWS services

Knowledge on Data Engineering Design, Best Practices, Resiliency, Failover, etc.

Ability to scale up on the good to have skills through learnings on the job and from the architecture quorum.

Thinks critically about work to guarantee business functionality. Understands and considers business goals into their technical decisions.

Can break down large initiatives into incrementally implementable deliverables.

Able to work across teams to tackle complex issues.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Preferred qualifications:• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field

Primary Skills: Spark (PySpark preferred, Dataframe, Filters, UDF, Partition), SQL, Python, Databricks / Glue

Secondary Skills: Cloud Data Engineering (AWS)

CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to: skill set level; experience and training; and licensure and certifications. CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $84,000 - 161,600.

At CGI we call our professionals "members" to reinforce that all who join our team are, as owners, empowered to participate in the challenges and rewards that come from building a world-class company. CGI's benefits include:• Competitive base salaries• Eligibility to participate in an attractive Share Purchase Plan (SPP) in which the company matches dollar-for-dollar contributions made by eligible employees, up to a maximum, for their job category• 401(k) Plan and Profit Participation for eligible members• Generous holidays, vacation, and sick leave plans• Comprehensive insurance plans that include, among other benefits, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, out-of-county emergency coverage in all countries of employment.• Back-up childcare, Pet insurance, a Member Assistance Program, a 529 college savings program, a personal financial management tool, lifestyle management programs and more

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Skills:
  • Data Engineering
  • Python
  • Spark SQL
  • SQL
What you can expect from us:

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When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today - one of the world's largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

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