Senior Data Engineer​/Remote

Overview

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The company: ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference.

Our Health Engineering Systems (HES) team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success, and then make it happen. We know success doesn’t happen by accident. It takes the right team of people, working together on the right solutions for the customer. We are looking for a seasoned Senior Data Engineer who will be a key driver to make this happen.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Spark, Hive, and Airflow
• Develop and deploy data processing workflows on the Databricks platform
• Develop API services to facilitate data access and integration
• Create interactive data visualizations and reports using AWS Quick Sight
• Builds required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies
• Monitor and optimize the performance of data infrastructure and processes
• Develop data quality and validation jobs
• Assembles large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements
• Write unit and integration tests for all data processing code
• Work with Dev Ops engineers on CI, CD, and IaC
• Read specs and translate them into code and design documents
• Perform code reviews and develop processes for improving code quality
• Improve data availability and timeliness by implementing more frequent refreshes, tiered data storage, and optimizations of existing datasets
• Maintain security and privacy for data at rest and while in transit

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field
• 7+ years of hands-on software or data development experience
• 4+ years of data pipeline experience using Python, PySpark and cloud technologies
• 2 years working in Spark and Hive or similar large data environments
• Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• Candidate must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US, and work must be performed in the US
• Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years
• Travel of up to once a quarter US domestically is required

• U.S. Citizenship or Green Card is highly prioritized due to federal contract requirements
• Experience building job workflows with the Databricks platform (Strongly Preferred)
• Strong understanding of AWS products including S3, Redshift, RDS, EMR, AWS Glue, AWS Glue Data Brew, Jupyter Notebooks, Athena, Quick Sight, EMR, and Amazon SNS
• Familiar with work to build processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependency and metadata
• Experienced in data governance process to ingest (batch, stream), curate, and share data with upstream and downstream data users
• Experienced in data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up
• Demonstrated understanding using software and tools including relational No
  
  SQL and SQL databases including Cassandra and Postgres; workflow management and pipeline tools such as Airflow, Luigi and Azkaban; stream-processing systems like Spark-Streaming and Storm; and object function/object-oriented scripting languages including Scala, C++, Java and Python
• Familiar with Dev Ops methodologies, including CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions) and IaC (Terraform)
• Experience with Agile methodology, using test-driven development

This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. If you accept this position, you should note that ICF does monitor employee work locations and blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses and also prohibits personal VPN connections.

ICF is an equal opportunity employer. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Reasonable Accommodations are available, including for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs. To request an accommodation, please email C All information provided will be kept confidential to the extent required to provide needed accommodations.

At ICF, we are committed to a fair interview process. The use of AI tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews is not permitted, except where an accommodation involving AI is needed. For accommodations, contact c

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is $89,203.00 - $. The final pay is determined by factors including experience, skills, certifications, location, and contract provisions.