The Data Management – Vendor Data Engineering team at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is hiring an Associate Data Engineer I to support the development and maintenance of data pipelines that power critical vendor integrations and analytics workflows. This role is ideal for candidates with a foundation in SQL and Python who want to build hands-on experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting data pipelines, supporting data warehouse structures, and resolving data quality issues. In this role, you will partner closely with data engineers, business analysts, and stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable data solutions while learning modern cloud platforms such as Google Cloud and BigQuery. This position includes collaboration across teams and participation in an on-call rotation, offering strong mentorship and growth opportunities toward more advanced engineering roles. Notes: On-call rotation is required for this position, starting approximately 6 months into the role. While this is a remote, work from home position, the final round of interviews will take place onsite in our Chattanooga, TN office. Sponsorship is unavailable for this role. Job Responsibilities Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding to design, develop, modify, or integrate information systems Devises or modifies application systems and procedures to optimize functional requirements including capacity, operating time, response time, and form of desired results. Designs, codes, tests, debugs, and documents programs, subroutines, and scripts. Maintains technical skill set for software languages, databases, platforms, operating systems, utilities and networks needed to support work assignments. Responds to system failures and performance events by taking appropriate measures to reduce system downtime and eliminate recurrence of problems. May conduct presentations to provide end users with knowledge to maximize their use of developed systems. Job Qualifications Education Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent work experience required. Equivalent years of experience are determined as one year of technical experience for every year of college requested. Number of Openings Available 1 Worker Type: Employee Company: BCBST BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Inc. Applying for this job indicates your acknowledgement and understanding of the following statements: BCBST will recruit, hire, train and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Further information regarding BCBST's EEO Policies/Notices may be found by reviewing the following page: BCBST's EEO Policies/Notices BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee via-email, the Internet or any other method without a valid, written Direct Placement Agreement in place for this position from BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee HR/Talent Acquisition will not be considered. No fee will be paid in the event the applicant is hired by BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee as a result of the referral or through other means.