Cloud Data Engineer

Granicus is the leading provider of citizen engagement technologies and services for the public sector, bringing governments closer to the people they serve with the first-and-only Civic Engagement Platform. Granicus works with more than 5,500 government organizations and connects more than 280 million people in the largest Citizen Subscriber Network of its kind.

What your impact will look like here

• 2-4 years experience in Identifying, designing and implementing internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes
• Must have skills - Dynamo, DB and/or Redshift, Lambda, AWS, ELT/ETL
• Data Movement and data pipelines
• Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SOL technologies
• Building analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition
• Working with stakeholders including data, design, product and executive teams and assisting them with data-related technical issues
• Working with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to support their data infrastructure needs while assisting with data-related technical issues   

You will love this job if you have:

• Experience assembling large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements
• Experience setting up AWS Data Platform – AWS CloudFormation, DevelopmentEndPoints, AWS Glue, Dynamo DB Redshift, S3, DMS, and EC2 instances
• Experience with AWS SQS and Lambda
• Track record of successfully building scalable Data Lake solutions that connects to distributed data storage using multiple data connectors.
• Must have a background in data engineering – Data Lakehouse Development experience would be perfect
• Strong skills in SQL, Python, PySpark, and AWS
• Experience in designing, developing, optimizing and troubleshooting complex Data Pipelines using Spark cluster
• Ability to lead proofs-of-concepts and then effectively transition and scale those concepts into production at scale through, engineering, deployment and commercialization.
• Serve as a data lakehouse SME; envision and integrate emerging data technologies, anticipate new trends to solve complex business and technical problems.
• A passion for modern data lake house or data mesh design

The Team

• We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Culture - Serving the People Who Serve the People

• Granicus is driven by the excitement of building, implementing, and maintaining technology that is transforming the Govtech industry by bringing governments and its constituents together. We are on a mission to support our customers with meeting the needs of their communities and implementing our technology in ways that are equitable and inclusive. Granicus has consistently appeared on the GovTech 100 list over the past 5 years and has been recognized as the best companies to work on BuiltIn.
• Over the last 25 years, we have served 5,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and more than 300 million citizen subscribers power an unmatched Subscriber Network that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place. With comprehensive cloud-based solutions for communications, government website design, meeting and agenda management software, records management, and digital services, Granicus empowers stronger relationships between government and residents across the U.S., U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. By simplifying interactions with residents, while disseminating critical information, Granicus brings governments closer to the people they serve—driving meaningful change for communities around the globe.
• Want to know more? See more of what we do here. 

The Impact

• We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place — quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact here.

The Process

• Phone screen – Speak to one of our talented recruiters to ensure this could be a fit.
• Assessment – Take a quick assessment (Don’t worry, we will prep you!)
• Hiring Manager interview – Talk to the hiring manager so they can learn more about you and you about Granicus.
• Panel interview – Meet more members on the team! Learn more and share more.
• Reference checks – Provide 2 references so we can hear about your awesomeness.
• Verbal offer – Let’s talk numbers, benefits, culture and answer any questions.
• Written offer – Sign a formal letter and get excited because we sure are!


• Granicus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants and employees will be considered for employment and advancement without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, sexual or affectional orientation, marital status, status regarding public assistance, familial status, military or veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.