Data Solutions Engineer

GovWell

New York (NY)

On-site

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity/stock options

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) program

Job summary

A government technology startup in New York is seeking a Data Solutions Engineer to manage customer data migrations and GIS onboarding. This pivotal role ensures accurate data integration as governments transition from legacy systems. Candidates should have 2-3 years of relevant experience and strong SQL skills. The position offers a hybrid work culture, blending in-office collaboration with flexibility for remote work. Join us to make meaningful improvements in government services through technology.

Qualifications

2-3+ years of hands-on experience in data solutions or related roles.
Ability to identify and resolve data quality issues.
Experience working directly with customer-provided data.

Responsibilities

Execute customer data migrations and GIS onboarding processes.
Ensure data quality and correctness during migrations.
Lead onboarding as the primary technical contact for clients.

Skills

Data solutions experience

Strong SQL proficiency

Data quality instincts

Tools

PostgreSQL

Airflow

Python

Job description

🏛️ About GovWell

We the people (and the taxpayers) deserve good government — but today, interacting with government services is often frustrating and inefficient. GovWell is building the AI-powered platform that transforms how governments serve communities, starting with local agencies.

Our first product helps municipal and county governments modernize complex services like permitting and licensing. GovWell combines a highly configurable SaaS system of record with generative AI that automates work for staff, guides residents through services, and is radically simple to deploy.

Founded in 2023, GovWell powers 3,000+ critical processes for agencies in 29 states serving millions of residents. We’ve raised $9.5M in seed funding from Work-Bench and Bienville Capital, and work in person at our HQ in New York City. Read more about our founding story in TechCrunch.

☀️ Why GovWell?

A mission that matters: Building AI-powered products to fix outdated government systems isn’t just a technical challenge—it’s a historic opportunity to improve our foundational relationship with government and ensure trillions of tax dollars result in high quality services. WATCH: Mission & Vision with CEO & Co-Founder Troy LeCaire
Real-world impact: GovWell’s product is the system of record for government services that affect millions of Americans. From streamlining permitting for small businesses to accelerating affordable housing development, your work will make an immediate difference.
Join a startup in hyper-growth: We’ve found product‑market fit and are scaling the business very quickly (4X ARR growth in the last year). As an early team member, you’ll learn what it takes to build a successful startup. You’ll work closely with the founders while enjoying exceptional autonomy and ownership over your work.

🌟 Role overview

GovWell is hiring a Data Solutions Engineer to help governments transition from legacy systems to modern software. You’ll own customer data migrations and GIS onboarding end-to-end, working directly with government teams to map schemas, validate data, and ensure accurate, complete data is loaded into GovWell’s platform.

This role reports directly to Ben Cohen, Co-Founder and CTO, and works closely with Product, Engineering, and Deployment to make onboarding faster, more reliable, and increasingly repeatable as GovWell scales.

We have a hybrid work culture that combines regular in-person collaboration at our New York City office (3+ days per week) with flexibility to work remotely.

💻 What you’ll do

Execute customer data migrations and GIS onboarding end-to-end, working directly with government staff to understand source systems, configure mappings and ingestion settings, run validations and dry‑runs, and ensure accurate, complete data is loaded into GovWell.
Own onboarding data quality and correctness by identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and edge cases in legacy data; making documented judgment calls within defined constraints, and preventing bad or unsafe data from entering production.
Serve as the primary technical point of contact during onboarding, leading customer calls, clearly explaining data requirements and tradeoffs, and guiding agencies through the transition from legacy systems to GovWell with confidence.
Operate and improve repeatable onboarding processes using internal tools, templates, and playbooks to reduce time-to-launch, minimize manual work, and ensure migrations and GIS ingestion become increasingly predictable as volume scales.
Provide structured feedback to Product and Engineering teams by documenting recurring issues, unmet assumptions, and tooling gaps encountered during migrations, helping inform platform and process improvements without introducing one‑off solutions.

🧠 Who you are

2–3+ years of hands‑on experience in data solutions, data migrations, ETL/onboarding, technical implementations, or a closely related role involving messy, real‑world data.
Strong SQL proficiency used in practice for data validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting.
Experience working directly with customer‑provided data, including interpreting poorly documented schemas, resolving inconsistencies, and making tradeoffs to deliver usable outcomes.
Strong data quality and validation instincts: able to identify risky data issues early, run effective QA, and prevent incorrect data from reaching production.
Comfortable interfacing directly with non‑technical stakeholders, clearly explaining technical constraints, requirements, and tradeoffs in calm, plain language.
Highly reliable and execution‑oriented: you take full ownership of migrations end‑to‑end, communicate proactively, and deliver on deadlines.
Process‑driven and disciplined: you follow playbooks, avoid one‑off solutions, and contribute to making onboarding more repeatable as GovWell scales.
Motivated by the real‑world impact that clean, trusted data has on helping governments serve residents better.

🖥️ Our tech stack

Airflow – for managing data migration pipelines
PostgreSQL – our core database
SQL – your core tool for validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting
Python – used in data workflows and automation
Hex – your general‑purpose data tool for loading, transforming, and QAing data
RedwoodJS, GraphQL, TypeScript, AWS – the broader software engineering environment you’ll interact with