Data Engineer

About NAVAOur mission is to partner with government agencies to deliver digital services and infrastructure that makes programs simple, effective, and accessible to all. As a public benefit corporation, our intent is not to win as much work as we can, but to design a portfolio that makes the highest leverage progress against that mission. 
Nava has a role in every important program that serves vulnerable populations and can apply industry-level ecosystem pressure to transform service experiences, program outcomes, and agency adaptability.
Position Summary: Nava is at the forefront of reimagining how our government serves its people, and we are looking for a Data Engineer who will help us to drive our vision forward. Working in a highly-collaborative environment, you’ll create experiences that improve the lives of millions of Americans. We're looking for a Data Engineer who cares deeply about end users and is passionate about crafting simple and usable solutions.
In this role, you'll work with government stakeholders, alongside Nava's engineering, design and product teams, to modernize data architectures and data pipelines in critical government programs. You'll design and implement data models and databases, improve data pipelines, enhance data security, and write code to process data more efficiently and support storage, processing, and analysis of terabytes of critical data. You will provide subject matter expertise and actively contribute in data and architecture review meetings, while supporting the implementation of data integration requirements and developing the pipeline from raw data through curation layers (including data acquisition, cleaning, transformation, derivation, and aggregation) to consumable data for Data Analysts and Data Scientists.
You will deploy and operate mission-critical, highly-available, and scalable systems by adopting and defining standards and best practices in data engineering. You will support our software developers, database architects, data analysts, and data scientists on data initiatives and will help ensure data delivery is optimal and consistent throughout ongoing projects. You will support the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products in addition to creating and optimizing our government partners' data architecture to support their data initiatives and programs.
You will have a significant strategic impact and will be uniquely positioned and empowered to make a huge impact on Nava's mission to reimagine how our government serves its people. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working directly with clients in both a consulting and delivery capacity to tackle complex, enterprise cloud, or on-premises software and technology projects. You'll have an innate desire to learn new technologies and languages as well as be a problem solver who likes and creative thinker. You're also highly organized and works well independently, as part of a team, and with stakeholders. Our ideal candidate will also be an effective oral and written communicator with a strong ability to relay technical concepts clearly and concisely to a wide audience with various levels of technical knowledge and awareness.

What You’ll Do

• Document, improve, and maintain data strategies and artifacts, including logical and physical data models, data dictionary, data architecture roadmap, and data security policies, using industry best practices and adhering to federal standards, along with operational runbook procedures
• Collect data access patterns and review current data models to optimize designs for customer use cases
• Standardize data ingestion and processing pipelines to scale with increasing utilization
• Audit and reverse-engineer business rules in legacy systems, and build data connectors for integrating them into a data and analytics platform
• Implement large-scale data ecosystems within cloud-based platforms that include data management and data governance of structured and unstructured data
• Leverage and enhance automation to speed development and improve reliability and performance
• Work with cross-functional project teams to gather business requirements and translate to detailed technical specifications
• Work with Government partners to assist and develop data engineering applications and pipelines that will enable data services and processing capabilities, such as advanced analytics, AI/ML, and experimentation.
• Design, develop, test, automate, and deploy data engineering solutions in a 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

Required Technical Skills:

• 5+ years software engineering experience (or M.S. Computer Science with 3+ years of relevant experience)
• 3+ years of experience in cloud data architecture (AWS preferred) and big data technologies
• Experience with professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development, Test Driven Development, CI/CD, and Source Code Management
• Experience with building ETL pipelines like Kafka to ingest, process, and store data
• Experience with data orchestration frameworks, such as Apache Airflow, AWS Step Functions or Temporal
• Experience with analytics tools, such as AWS Glue, AWS QuickSight, and Athena
• Proficient with relational databases and advanced SQL queries
• Prior experience with Python, Java, or Scala programming across multiple use-cases
• Experience with data cleaning and data modeling while protecting sensitive data
• Proficient with building data integrations using both API and file-based protocols
• Proficient in refining high-level goals into high-impact, low-effort tasks and milestones based on human-centered design practices to prioritize options for stakeholders

Desired Experience (The following are preferred):

• Familiarity with test automation frameworks
• Familiarity with DevOps IaC tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, and CloudFormation)
• Experience with security scanning tools (e.g., Nessus, BurpSuite, Netsparker, OWASP)
• Experience working with and programmatically interfacing with legacy systems
• Experience with healthcare quality data, e.g., provider, beneficiary, claims, and quality measure data
• Experience with the FHIR data model

Compensation: $113,000 - $135,000
Other requirements●  Must have lived in the United States for at least three (3) of the past five (5) years. ●  An active green card or citizenship is required.● Candidates who are offered a job with Nava must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa now or in the future.● Offer of hire is contingent upon completion of a background check that includes a criminal record history review.● Applicants selected for this position may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.

Perks working with NAVA● Your well-being is important to us, so we offer highly competitive benefits for medical, dental, and vision.● 20 days of PTO accrued, 12 days paid federal holidays, 5 floating holidays, unlimited sick leave ● 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and weekly meal deliveries during leave ● Sabbatical Leave ● 401k contributions match at 4% of your salary ● Flexible work arrangements ● $1,000 new home office set up budget, monthly phone allowance.● Monthly partial reimbursement for utilities (where applicable)● $2,000 annual tuition and professional development budget ● Equity stock options ● Employee referral program ● Commuter Benefits ● Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance ● Life and Accidental Death ● Diverse, inclusive, highly collaborative and vibrant culture fostering remote work!
LocationYou can work in a hybrid work arrangement from one of Nava’s offices in NYC, DC or San Francisco. We also have fully remote options if you reside in one of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, DC, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington.
*If you are not living in one of the states listed above, unfortunately, you will not be considered for a position at this time. 
Nava PBC equal opportunity employer that is deeply committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, marital status, disability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy, status as a protected veteran or any characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion not only reflects our values as a public benefit corporation but also enriches our ability to do our work. Learn more about where we are today and hope to be by 2025.
Please contact the recruiting team at recruiting@navapbc.com if you would like to request reasonable accommodation during the application or interviewing process.  
We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. This role is required to work from the contiguous United States.