Data Engineer II

About BlueLabs
BlueLabs is a leading provider of analytics services and technology for a variety of industry clients: including government, business, and political campaigns. We help our clients optimize their engagements with individual customers, supporters, and stakeholders to achieve their goals. Simply put: we help our partners do the most good by getting the most from their data.
Today, our team of data analysts, scientists, engineers, and strategists come together from diverse backgrounds to share a passion for using data to solve the world's greatest social and analytical challenges. We've served more than 400 organizations ranging from government agencies, advocacy groups, political campaigns, and businesses. Along the way, we've developed some of the most innovative tools available in analytics, media optimization, reporting, and influencer outreach-- serving a diverse set of industries, including the automotive, travel, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, healthcare, media, telecom, and more.
About the team:
The BlueLabs Civic Technology practice revolutionizes the way government agencies use data to streamline operations, interact with citizens, and react to their biggest challenges. Our team develops deep expertise within the areas our clients care about most, then builds data analytics systems that create impact at scale. We work closely with internal government innovation groups, and build on the analytics methodology pioneered in e-commerce, advocacy, politics, and consumer finance.
You will work on a fast-paced, impact-driven project team charged with intelligently improving the operations powering the policies and programs that Americans interact with on a daily basis. Our work builds the frameworks and infrastructure that allows agencies to deal with big public health challenges. We bring definition to challenging problems, creatively identify data sources, then design analytics that accurately measure impact and move the needle every day. We work in changing, ambiguous environments, so we embrace nuance, inclusivity, and complexity to deliver programs that work for the diverse groups of individuals who rely on us.
About the role:
You will play a critical role in supporting a digital marketing solution for several high-profile websites run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The Data Ingestion Pipeline Developer will work with a team to produce dynamic, personalized email and SMS campaigns to deliver information relevant to each customer. You should have experience working in a cross-functional team of partners in which you were responsible for driving ____.
In this position you will:

• Work closely with a team of ingestion/application integration engineers (or 'pipeline developers'?) with responsibility for the architecture, deployment, and operations of the infrastructure used by wider team
• Work closely with data analysts and data scientists to identify and effectively respond to their specific needs, especially related to client deliverables
• Develop, test, and operationalize the data infrastructure that will contribute to client-facing products, such as writing and reviewing API endpoints.
• Contribute to the maintenance of a well documented, consistent codebase.
• Provide visibility into data transformations by designing and implementing data tests throughout existing pipelines.
• Extract business logic (ETL/ELT, metrics, metadata) from current data systems into portable cloud-agnostic layers.
• Analyze, build, and deploy data models, including relational models for data warehousing.
• Produce scalable, replicable code and engineering solutions that help automate repetitive data management tasks.
• Support your teammates in implementing efficient and resilient data processes, with improvements such as optimization, good error handling, and incoming data checks.
• Ensure the reliability, security, and performance of our program team infrastructure and our compliance with client policies and procedures, including remediating findings from regular systems auditing
• Perform such other reasonable tasks as may be assigned by management

What we are seeking:

• 3+ years of experience as a contributor to technical projects, such as working with complex data structures and pipelines
• Experience delivering on client priorities that operate on a regular deployment schedule while reacting to urgent ad hoc needs
• Ability to manage your individual priorities and comfortably context-switch between active development, client discussion, and issue response
• Effective communication skills when working with team members of varied backgrounds, roles, and functions
• Experience performing nontrivial deployments of web applications and/or data pipelines and supported production infrastructures
• Experience designing data models that keep in mind the upstream and downstream system dependencies
• Advanced understanding of how to test and debug scripts that process and manipulate data using SQL, R, and/or Python
• Extensive experience with
  AWS
  (our primary cloud provider)
• Add more about Tech Stack? Terraform, containerization and cluster orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, Linux systems, networking and security, Vertica,
  Redshift
  , Snowflake, Airflow or Databricks, Oracle or Postgresql, CI/CD environments using Jenkins and CircleCI, Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, dbt; Spark, Hadoop,
  Jupyter
• Passion in applying your skills to our social mission to problem-solve and collaborate on improving the functions of government agencies
• The ability to successfully attain and maintain a Federal Public Trust background investigation that our government clients require; this includes a requirement that the individual has U.S. Citizenship or U.S. residency for three of the past five years

What recruitment looks like:
During the interview process, you will be asked questions to describe your background and experience relevant to the position. This may include providing examples of projects you worked on, tools or applications you've used, and knowledge you have applied. We often look for explanations of "how or why" so it's helpful to have details ready. The process will also include a technical assessment.
What We Offer:
BlueLabs offers a friendly work environment and competitive benefits package including:

• Premier health insurance plan
• 401K matching
• Unlimited vacation leave
• Paid sick, personal, and volunteer leave
• 13 paid holidays
• 15 weeks paid parental leave
• Professional development stipend & tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Supportive & collaborative culture
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly (within the U.S.)
• And more!

The salary for this position is $95,000+ annually.
While we have an office in Washington, DC, we are open to considering candidates from within the U.S.
At BlueLabs, we celebrate, support and thrive on differences. Not only do they benefit our services, products, and community, but most importantly, they are to the benefit of our team. Qualified people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, gender identities, marital status, religions, veterans statuses, disabilities and any other protected classes are strongly encouraged to apply. As an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer, BlueLabs is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. BlueLabs endeavors to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified applicants with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If an applicant believes they require such assistance to complete the application or to participate in an interview, or has any questions or concerns, they should contact the Director, People Operations. BlueLabs participates in E-verify. EEO is the Law (Link to external DOL site)