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What Data Engineering contributes to Cardinal Health
The Data & Analytics Function oversees the analytics life-cycle in order to identify, analyze and present relevant insights that drive business decisions and anticipate opportunities to achieve a competitive advantage. This function manages analytic data platforms, the access, design and implementation of reporting/business intelligence solutions, and the application of advanced quantitative modeling.

Data Engineering ensures raw data is usable and accessible for the organization and encompasses numerous specialties of data acquisition, integration, and provisioning.

The Digital Partner builds automation, analytics, and artificial intelligence solutions that drive success for Cardinal Health by creating material savings, efficiencies, and revenue growth opportunities. The team drives business innovation by leveraging emerging technologies and turning them into differentiating business capabilities.
 

Responsibilities
The primary role of the Data Engineer is to support and expand the Data & Analytics platforms that process, store, organize the data critical for the data and analytics team. This role will drive the technical execution and maintenance to provide trusted, stable, reliable, responsive, and secure solutions and proactively inform business partners on D&A platform and product health, and problem resolution. This role will have expertise in data movement and database technologies support data analytics capabilities and incorporate broad knowledge of AI/ML algorithms, development and applications.  This person will work collaboratively with Shared Services, Cloud teams, offshore developers, and business users to solve business problems and deliver solutions.

• Participate and contribute in technical platform strategy as tools, products, and business needs evolve
• Define and execute database and data movement standards, design reviews, database implementation 
• Analyze, re-architect and re-platform legacy or enterprise database objects to Google Cloud Platform BigQuery 
• Define how our data analytics capabilities will apply to business needs and result in dependable business solutions  
• Ensure technical specifications are aligned with both business needs and technical design standards  
• Generate ideas and suggestions for process and technical improvements for platforms and processes supported by the team  
• Ensure platforms and tools meet or exceed data security standards, including internal and external audits performed  
• Develop best practices for solution and tool frameworks, leveraging standard naming conventions, scripting, and coding practices to ensure consistency of data solution.  

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Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience preferred
• BA, BS or equivalent experience in related field, preferred. Advance Degree may be required 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Advance experience with data platforms including Google Cloud Platform BigQuery, AWS Redshift, Oracle or MS SQL  
• Extensive experience with any of the ETL tools (Informatica/DataStage/Talend/DataServices)  
• Demonstrated expertise of database design and modeling.   
• Expert knowledge and experience with building database objects like SQL, Stored Procs and Views  
• Experience with building semantic layer on consumable data using AtScale and/or LookML  
• Expert level knowledge with database partitioning, indexes, hints etc.  
• Experience on large-scale implementation programs preferred  
• Experience with build and maintenance DevSecOps practices (CI/CD Pipeline, Airflow, GitHUB etc)   
• Hands on experience with Python Scripting  
• Proficiency with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL. 
• Experience with development environments, including, but not limited to Jupyter, Google Colab notebooks, Matplotlib, Plotly, and geoplotlib. 
• Willingness to become a techno-functional expert in the solutions being implemented. Use strong verbal and written communication skills that non-technical business and end users can understand.  

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
• Works on complex projects of large scope
• Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems
• Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives
• Completes work; independently receives general guidance on new projects
• Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives
• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

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Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.