Data Engineer

Blue Tiger is looking for a full-time Data Engineer to join our talented team of technologists.

Mission impact 

For this role, you will work with federal government employees, designers, and technologists to design and create digital content for public use and benefit. 

As a Data Engineer, you will work closely with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to transform the Medicaid Drug Program (MDP) product suite. This product suite helps ensure that individuals with low-income and children in need of healthcare insurance receive affordable access to medication. The MDP product suite provides federal and state governments with critical data to negotiate better drug prices and provide transparency in drug costs to the public.

About Blue Tiger

Blue Tiger is a people-first, design-forward digital consultancy. We design organizations, build software, and craft experiences for the American people. You’ll be a key part of our small, but rapidly growing team of civic technologists excited about making an impact on how government serves the public through technology.

Requirements

What you’ll do:

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable tooling and infrastructure for managing data in a system
• Build automated data pipelines, manage data storage, and create systems to make data available to users
• Support teams by performing tasks like data analysis, interpretation, extraction, formatting, labeling, cleaning, transformation, reduction, discretization, annotation, loading and processing
• Advocate for properly making decisions with data
• Build and maintain secure tooling and infrastructure for scalable automated data pipelines 
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, designers, and user researchers to improve data models that solve problems and support data-driven decision making
• Support regular ad-hoc data and analysis needs to better understand customer behaviors
• Implement processes and systems to monitor data quality and volume, ensuring data is accurate and available
• Perform analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the resolution of data issues
• Evaluate data ingestion, data analysis and machine learning tools for efficacy
• Evaluate existing data systems to improve data quality and governance
• Adhere to lean-agile engineering principles 
• Advocate for and use modern software engineering best practices such as API-first design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
• Analyze systems to identify technical debt, instability, unreliability, and other opportunities for improvement, and design, document, and communicate solutions
• Represent Blue Tiger's culture of delivery when interacting with government stakeholders and other contractors

What we’re looking for

• At least seven years of experience working as a data engineer on products with significant data requirements
• Experience creating synthetic data that matches the shape of production data
• Proficiency and familiarity with Liquibase, PostGRES, EKS
• Proficient in creating a data infrastructure 
• Experience modernizing data infrastructure, working with organizations to design and implement modern data engineering best practices including automating database creation via code, schema creation, etc.
• Proven experience in database design, implementation, and management
• In-depth knowledge of how to deliver application architectures and code that are highly scalable, available, and performant
• Expertise using version control systems such as GitHub
• Ability to author developer-friendly documentation such as API documentation and deployment operations
• Proven ability to apply good software engineering principles and practices
• Ability to select and use the best tools for the job, particularly open-source solutions
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences
• Experience working within a scrum/agile development methodology and environment

We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all interested candidates to apply. If you have more experience beyond what is detailed here, we’d be happy to take a look. If you meet most but not all of the requirements, we still want to hear from you!

Benefits

The salary for this position is $140,000 - 190,000.

We focus on supporting you in a variety of ways:

• 100% coverage of employee Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Automatic 401(k) contribution of 10% of your salary by the company, with no vesting period and no required individual contribution
• Paid time off, including 25 vacation days, 12 federal holidays, and unlimited sick leave
• Bonuses for annual performance, business development, company growth, and referrals
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Remote work environment

We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

We're an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.