Skylight is looking to hire a Data Engineer to help lead a major modernization effort at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), focusing on building secure, scalable, and efficient data solutions to improve public services.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating data systems in production, with strong coding and automation skills
- Ability to apply modern data engineering practices — modeling, transformation, orchestration, and quality management across varied sources
- Knowledge of multiple storage and processing paradigms and when to use them for scale, performance, and cost
- Understanding of privacy, security, and compliance needs for sensitive data, and how to integrate controls into delivery
- Experience modernizing legacy data systems or migrating to cloud platforms
- Familiarity with event streaming, real-time processing, or analytics/ML pipelines
- Exposure to compliance contexts such as Authority to Operate (ATO), the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), or the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate production-grade data pipelines and platforms, standardizing ingestion, transformation, and serving with reusable patterns
- Automate environments and delivery using version control, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Ensure data reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency through observability, quality checks, and optimization of storage and queries
- Embed privacy and security throughout the data lifecycle, including encryption, access controls, and protections for personally identifiable information (PII)
- Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to shape usable, accessible data products, dashboards, and APIs, while mentoring others and enabling federal partners
Other
- Clear communication with both technical and non-technical audiences, and a commitment to mentoring and knowledge transfer
- Ability to work successfully in a professional services environment
- Passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
- A mindset and work approach that align with Skylight’s core values
- Ability to spend time on-site at HHS in Washington, DC — either by being based locally or by traveling periodically for in-person collaboration
- 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.
