Senior/Staff Data Engineer

Summary

Join Skylight, a digital consultancy reinventing government services, as a Data Engineer. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and optimize data processing systems. You will ingest, transform, and analyze data from various sources, ensuring data integrity and security. Develop actionable insights to drive business goals and communicate findings effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. This fully remote position offers competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development. Skylight values a diverse workforce and encourages applications from all qualified individuals.

Requirements

• Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code
• Ability to produce high-quality code by adhering to good practices such as automated testing
• Experience working with large-scale, production systems, with attention to stability and caution
• A foundational understanding of data engineering, including how to use various datastores to handle persistent data in software systems
• Familiarity with modern data engineering, including techniques for cleaning and preprocessing data from a variety of sources
• Ability to preserve privacy and security when processing and analyzing data
• Clear communication about your data, models, and findings to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to use the appropriate visualization tools to highlight actionable insights, trends, and recommendations from data
• Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
• A passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
• A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
• Ability to travel for work from time to time

Responsibilities

• Use a variety of data processing tools, languages, and libraries to ingest, transform, and enrich data
• Work with a variety of data processing and storage infrastructure while optimizing for performance and cost
• Analyze data for trends and patterns, developing actionable insights that drive business goals and objectives
• Write readable, reusable, and performant code to ensure the performance and reliability of data extraction and processing
• Preserve privacy, security, and integrity through the entire data life cycle
• Engage with stakeholders to identify opportunities for data-driven impact
• Collaborate with others as part of a cross-functional team that includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with healthcare data standards like HL7 or FHIR
• Willingness to flex into other engineering tasks as required by the project
• Experience with legacy Java systems, like JBoss, Wildfly, or Java Server Pages
• Familiarity with containerized services and cloud technologies
• Prior experience working in the civic tech space
• Experience working in a remote-team environment

Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
• Up to 12 weeks paid-time-off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
• Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good