Skylight is looking to solve the problem of helping government agencies deliver better public services through the use of design and technology, and the data engineer role is critical in driving this movement forward by designing ways to ingest, optimize, synthesize, and analyze data to help users make informed decisions.
Requirements
- Ability to write clean, working, and reusable code
- Can produce high-quality code by adhering to good practices such as automated testing
- Possess a foundational understanding of data engineering, including how to use various datastores to handle persistent data in software systems
- Familiar 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
- Can clearly communicate your data, models, and findings to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to use the appropriate visualization tools to highlight actionable insights, trends, and recommendations from data
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 both 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 travel for work from time to time
- Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
- A passion for creating better public outcomes through great government services
- A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values
- Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship
