Data Engineer: Build Scalable Pipelines & Dashboards

ICF International; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a Data Engineer for its Health Engineering Systems team in the United States. You will develop and support data pipelines, database objects, and reporting integrations across PostgreSQL, SQL, Databricks, and AWS QuickSight, translating requirements into reliable code.

Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and DevOps, participate in CI/CD and IaC, ensure data quality and security, and contribute to Agile planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 3+ years of hands-on software development or data engineering experience.
• Candidate must obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Candidate must reside in the United States and be authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain data pipelines and transformation workflows using SQL, Python, Databricks, and cloud technologies.
• Develop and optimize PostgreSQL database objects, queries, data models, and data-access patterns.
• Build and maintain integrations that support DataConnect reporting through AWS QuickSight and Databricks.
• Develop API services and reusable components that facilitate secure data access and system integration.
• Support extraction, transformation, and loading of data from multiple sources while meeting functional and non-functional requirements.
• Create and maintain data-quality checks, validation jobs, monitoring, and operational alerts.
• Troubleshoot data issues and improve pipeline reliability, performance, availability, and refresh timeliness.
• Write unit and integration tests for data-processing code and participate in code reviews.
• Translate technical specifications and business requirements into code, data designs, and implementation documentation.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, deployment, and environment support.
• Apply security and privacy controls for data at rest and in transit.
• Contribute to Agile planning, refinement, estimation, and continuous improvement activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Databricks

REST APIs

CI/CD

Terraform

Airflow

Spark

Version control

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS QuickSight

Databricks

REST APIs

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Airflow

Spark

Job description

ICF is seeking a Data Engineer for its Health Engineering Systems team in the United States. You will develop and support data pipelines, database objects, and reporting integrations across PostgreSQL, SQL, Databricks, and AWS QuickSight, translating requirements into reliable code.

Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and DevOps, participate in CI/CD and IaC, ensure data quality and security, and contribute to Agile planning.