Data Engineer, Baton Rouge, La Category Information Technology Location Baton Rouge, La

State of Louisiana, Louisiana Department of Health

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
On-site
Links → datalake integration feasibility
Build and optimize etl workflows
Design scalable data workflows
The State of Louisiana, Louisiana Department of Health is seeking a Data Engineer for their Baton Rouge office to enhance data integration and management within public health initiatives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data engineering, particularly with ETL workflows, SQL, and cloud platforms, while contributing to data governance and collaboration with various health programs

Job Summary

  • Assess feasibility and technical requirements for LINKS → DataLake integration.
  • Build and optimize ETL workflows for LINKS and complementary datasets, designing scalable data workflows to improve data quality, integrity, and identity resolution.
  • Implement data governance, observability, and lineage tracking across all pipelines, mentoring engineers and enforcing best practices.

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The State of Louisiana, Louisiana Department of Health is seeking a Data Engineer for their Baton Rouge office to enhance data integration and management within public health initiatives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data engineering, particularly with ETL workflows, SQL, and cloud platforms, while contributing to data governance and collaboration with various health programs.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • LINKS → DataLake integration feasibility
  • Build and optimize ETL workflows
  • Design scalable data workflows
  • Implement data governance and lineage
  • Python for ETL and automation
  • SQL queries and performance tuning
  • ETL orchestration tools
  • Cloud platforms for data onboarding

Nice-to-have

  • Experience with APIs
  • CI/CD pipeline familiarity
  • Infrastructure as Code exposure
  • Data governance and metadata tools
  • Public health/healthcare dataset experience
  • SAS and R workflow familiarity
  • Additional SQL platform experience
  • Data quality frameworks
  • Real-time/streaming tools
  • Big data frameworks
  • Data security and compliance knowledge
  • Agile/SCRUM team experience

Key Requirements

  • 3 years of experience in data engineering/architecture
  • 2 years of experience with Python for ETL
  • 2 years hands-on experience with SQL
  • 1 year experience with ETL orchestration tools
  • 1 year experience with cloud platforms
  • 1 year exposure to data lake architecture
  • 2 years of experience providing documentation and communication

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