Sr. Data Engineer (Engineering Lead)

Position Overview

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Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation dedicated to simplifying and improving government services. Since 2013, Nava has partnered with federal, state, and local agencies to tackle complex technology modernization challenges. Nava guides agencies with legacy systems toward modern, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure, enhancing user experiences. As a client services company, Nava bills for its time, offering expertise to help government partners improve their digital products and services.

Nava prioritizes people, focusing on both the public users of benefit programs and government agency staff. Through human-centered design and modern engineering practices, Nava helps government partners understand user needs and fulfill their missions more effectively. This approach allows everyone at Nava to engage in meaningful, impactful work connected to the public good.

You will collaborate on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for government, designing, implementing, and delivering services used by millions of Americans. You are passionate about technology that improves lives but understand that technology isn't always the sole solution. You are dedicated to building inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure large-scale systems, and you will help establish high standards for simplicity, empathy, and accessibility within our teams.

The Senior 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, improving public-facing processes and experiences to provide users with easier, real-time access to necessary programs and services in a user-friendly and uncomplicated manner. This role will be involved in all project phases, from strategy and planning through post-production testing and support.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6 engineers.
• Collaborate with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software.
• Work in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs.
• Design and 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.
• Implement data validation and quality checks to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional project teams to gather business requirements and translate them into detailed technical specifications.
• Assist government partners in developing data engineering applications and pipelines to enable data services and processing capabilities.
• Participate in software design and code reviews.
• Maintain security and privacy standards in all aspects of the data pipeline.
• Participate in hiring activities, such as submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs, as needed.

Requirements

• Open to Data Engineers.
• At least 7 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale systems on Cloud platforms.
• At least 3 years of experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.
• At least 3 years of experience building data services on AWS.
• Experience building large-scale data services with FHIR/HL7 in healthcare.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Apache Spark, AWS Glue, AWS Athena, Databricks, AWS Redshift, AWS S3, and AWS RDS.
• Proficient in writing applications and APIs in Python, Go, or Java.
• 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 solutions.

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 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.