GCP Developer

About the Role

This position is within the NextGen Platform Enablement Team, specifically supporting Train 6 Reporting and Analytics. The role supports the development, enhancement, and maintenance of reporting and data solutions for Medicare programs. This is a hands-on development role.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate documented business and functional requirements into technical designs, data processing logic, reporting solutions, and data pipelines.
• Design, build, enhance, and maintain data pipelines and processing solutions in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery, including SQL-based transformations and data delivery processes.
• Develop and support EDM delivery, DAG-based orchestration, and TIDAL scheduling, including job sequencing, dependencies, and scheduled processing.
• Develop and maintain automated data and reporting solutions supporting operational, regulatory, statutory, compliance, and other Medicare program needs.
• Analyze source and target data to understand data relationships, define appropriate processing logic, and ensure accurate transformation and delivery of data.
• Support vendor integrations and cross-platform data ingress and egress processes.
• Perform unit testing, technical validation, and data validation to ensure solutions function as designed and meet documented requirements.
• Investigate defects, processing failures, and data discrepancies; perform root-cause analysis and implement appropriate corrections.
• Provide technical support during quality assurance and user acceptance testing, including researching questions and resolving identified defects.
• Take ownership of assigned deliverables, independently managing development activities and priorities to drive work through completion and meet committed deadlines.
• Collaborate effectively within a highly cross-functional team, contributing technical expertise while working constructively with developers, analysts, QA, data teams, application teams, and other delivery partners.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for assigned deliverables, with the ability to clearly and professionally explain processing logic, data flows, dependencies, and technical behavior to technical and non-technical audiences when needed.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation covering processing logic, data sources, transformations, dependencies, scheduling, and data delivery.
• Support implementation, production processing, ongoing maintenance, and troubleshooting of assigned solutions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Advanced experience developing data solutions using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery.
• Experience developing and supporting complex data pipelines, including data transformation, orchestration, scheduling, and delivery.
• Experience supporting production data pipelines, including troubleshooting processing failures, data quality issues, and upstream/downstream dependencies.
• SQL
• EDM delivery
• DAG-based orchestration
• TIDAL scheduling

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with EDM-based data delivery processes.
• Experience with DAG-based workflow orchestration in a cloud data environment.
• Experience with TIDAL scheduling, including job dependencies, execution sequencing, and scheduled processing.
• Experience developing or supporting vendor integrations and cross-platform data ingress and egress processes.
• Experience supporting Medicare or other healthcare programs.
• Experience developing solutions supporting operational, regulatory, statutory, or compliance reporting.