Skylight is looking for a Data Engineer to help government agencies deliver better public services by using design and technology to improve how they serve citizens. The role involves building software and infrastructure to process data from various sources to support analysis and inform user decisions.
Requirements
- Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code
- Ability to produce high-quality code by adhering to good practices such as automated testing
- Experience working with large-scale, production systems, with attention to stability and caution
- A foundational understanding of data engineering, including how to use various datastores to handle persistent data in software systems
- Familiarity with modern data engineering, including techniques for cleaning and preprocessing data from a variety of sources
- Ability to preserve privacy and security when processing and analyzing data
- Familiarity with containerized services and cloud technologies
Responsibilities
- Use a variety of data processing tools, languages, and libraries to ingest, transform, and enrich data
- Work with a variety of data processing and storage infrastructure while optimizing for performance and cost
- Analyze data for trends and patterns, developing actionable insights that drive business goals and objectives
- Write readable, reusable, and performant code to ensure the performance and reliability of data extraction and processing
- Preserve privacy, security, and integrity through the entire data life cycle
- Engage with stakeholders to identify opportunities for data-driven impact
- Collaborate with others as part of a cross-functional team that includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists
Other
- Ability to communicate effectively with clients
- A passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
- Ability to travel for work from time to time
- You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
- As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance.
