Senior Data Engineer

Facility:

Primrose Place: 1115 E Primrose, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807

Department:

1676 Enterprise Data and Analytics

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Hours:

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:

• Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.

• Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group.

• Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.

• Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)

• For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth

Data Engineer II - Administer, maintain, develop and implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of database systems. Also responsible implementing data models and database designs, database capacity issues, replication and other distributed data issues. Must follow organizational policies and standards, as well as industry best practices to ensure integrity, availability and recoverability for all managed systems and data.

Education:
▪ Required: High School Diploma or Equivalent
▪ Preferred: Associates Degree in a Related Field -- certification in database technology
Experience:
▪ Required: 3-5 Years Related Experience
Skills:
▪ Strong analytical/problem solving skills.
▪ Knowledge of current information technology and an ability to lead project teams to accomplish automation projects of large size and complexity.
▪ Proficient in all Microsoft programs; high level proficiency in Excel.
▪ Ability to communicate effectively with different levels of management.
▪ Excellent time management, interpersonal, communication, presentation, organization, prioritizing, decision-making, and planning skills.
▪ Strong verbal, interpersonal and written communication, project and PC and client/server skills.
▪ Flexibility and ability to work in a multi-tasking environment.
▪ Experience with online technical troubleshooting procedures.
Licensure/Certification/Registration:
▪ Certification in database technology

Job Description:

The Senior Data Engineer will lead the design and implementation of robust data solutions. The incumbent will be a key player in decision-making processes, with an emphasis on scalability and long-term strategic planning. The role requires advanced technical knowledge, leadership skills, and a thorough understanding of data governance and compliance. Education:
▪ Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Data & Analytics other quantitative discipline or equivalent experience
Experience:
▪ Required: 4 years of experience with data related to clinical, financial, or other enterprise domains OR Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data & Analytics, or other quantitative discipline and 2 years of experience.
Skills:
• Expertise in relational and non-relational databases.
• Proficient in data integration and orchestration tools.
• Advanced skills in big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, etc.).
• Strong experience with data lakes and data warehouse technologies.
• Leadership abilities and experience in strategic planning.
• Excellent communication and project management skills.
Licensure/Certification/Registration:
▪ N/A