Data Engineer (Analytics)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Not specified
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation focused on simplifying and improving government services. Since 2013, Nava has partnered with federal, state, and local agencies to address complex technology modernization challenges. As a client services company, Nava guides agencies with legacy systems towards modern, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure with enhanced user experiences. The company bills for its time, offering expertise and problem-solving to help government partners improve their digital products and services. Nava prioritizes people, using human-centered design and modern engineering practices to help partners understand user needs and achieve their missions more effectively. This focus allows everyone at Nava to engage in meaningful, impactful work connected to the public good.

The Data Engineer will work on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for the government, designing, implementing, and delivering services used by millions of Americans. The ideal candidate is passionate about technology that improves lives but understands that technology isn't always the solution. They are committed to building large-scale systems that are inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure, and will help establish high standards for simplicity, empathy, and accessibility within teams.

The Data Engineer role is responsible for developing end-to-end systems for a major government partner. The goal is to modernize a legacy enterprise platform to enhance public-facing processes and experiences, providing users with easier, real-time access to programs and services in a user-friendly manner. This individual will be involved in all project phases, from strategy and planning through post-production testing and support.

Responsibilities

• Collect data access patterns and review current data models to optimize designs for customer use cases.
• Develop scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Implement large-scale data ecosystems within cloud-based platforms, including data management and governance for structured and unstructured data.
• Leverage and enhance automation to improve development speed, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional project teams to gather business requirements and translate them into detailed technical specifications.
• Work with Government partners to assist in developing data engineering applications and pipelines that enable data services and processing capabilities.
• Design, develop, test, automate, and deploy data engineering solutions on cloud platforms, such as AWS.
• Participate in software design and code reviews.
• Develop automated testing, monitoring and alerting, and CI/CD for production systems.
• Maintain security and privacy standards in all aspects of the data pipeline.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of data engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in cloud data architecture (AWS preferred) and big data technologies.
• Experience with AWS services including AWS Glue, AWS Athena, AWS Redshift, AWS RDS.
• Experience with Databricks or Spark.
• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines in Python.
• Proficiency with relational databases and advanced SQL queries.
• Experience with data cleaning and data modeling while protecting sensitive data.
• Proficiency in building data integrations using both API and file-based protocols.
• Tenacity to dive into problems and iterate in working code.
• Equal parts systems thinker and advocate for users.
• Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented.
• Ability to think strategically about trade-offs and short-term vs. long-term benefits.
• An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and positive mindset.
• Excellent written communication skills.

Application Instructions

Not specified.

Company Information

Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation working to make government services simple and effective. Since 2013, federal, state, and local agencies have trusted Nava to help solve highly scrutinized technology modernization challenges. As a client services company, Nava guides agencies constrained by legacy systems to a future with sharp user experiences built on secure, reliable, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure. Nava bills for its time, offering its expertise and problem-solving approach to help its government partners enhance their digital products and services. People are at the heart of Nava's work, from members of the public who rely on benefit programs to government agency staff. Through human-centered design and modern engineering best practices, Nava helps its government partners better understand user needs and deliver on their missions more effectively. This focus gives everyone at Nava the opportunity to do work that is meaningful, impactful, and deeply connected to public good.