Blue Tiger is looking for a full-time Data Engineer to join our talented team of technologists.
Mission impact
For this role, you will work with federal government employees, designers, and technologists to design and create digital content for public use and benefit.
As a Data Engineer, you will work closely with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to transform the Medicaid Drug Program (MDP) product suite. This product suite helps ensure that individuals with low-income and children in need of healthcare insurance receive affordable access to medication. The MDP product suite provides federal and state governments with critical data to negotiate better drug prices and provide transparency in drug costs to the public.
About Blue Tiger
Blue Tiger is a people-first, design-forward digital consultancy. We design organizations, build software, and craft experiences for the American people. You’ll be a key part of our small, but rapidly growing team of civic technologists excited about making an impact on how government serves the public through technology.
Requirements
What you’ll do:
- Architect, build, and maintain scalable tooling and infrastructure for managing data in a system
- Build automated data pipelines, manage data storage, and create systems to make data available to users
- Support teams by performing tasks like data analysis, interpretation, extraction, formatting, labeling, cleaning, transformation, reduction, discretization, annotation, loading and processing
- Advocate for properly making decisions with data
- Build and maintain secure tooling and infrastructure for scalable automated data pipelines
- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
- Collaborate with Data Scientists, designers, and user researchers to improve data models that solve problems and support data-driven decision making
- Support regular ad-hoc data and analysis needs to better understand customer behaviors
- Implement processes and systems to monitor data quality and volume, ensuring data is accurate and available
- Perform analysis required to troubleshoot data related issues and assist in the resolution of data issues
- Evaluate data ingestion, data analysis and machine learning tools for efficacy
- Evaluate existing data systems to improve data quality and governance
- Adhere to lean-agile engineering principles
- Advocate for and use modern software engineering best practices such as API-first design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing
- Analyze systems to identify technical debt, instability, unreliability, and other opportunities for improvement, and design, document, and communicate solutions
- Represent Blue Tiger’s culture of delivery when interacting with government stakeholders and other contractors
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