Remote Data Engineer & Insights Analyst

V Group Inc.; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Remote; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Pennsylvania Longitudinal Data System is seeking a Data Engineer & Insights Analyst for an 8+ month contract, with remote work from Harrisburg, PA. The role focuses on transforming complex data into actionable insights, building data pipelines, and delivering analytics products to support state government decisions.

You will design and maintain cloud-based data solutions (AWS), implement data quality controls, and enable reproducible research through dashboards and models.

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL and relational DB expertise.
• Experience building and optimizing big data pipelines and datasets.
• Dashboards, reports, and decision-support tool design for executives.
• Experience with student-level higher education data linkages.
• Root-cause analysis on data and processes to improve outcomes.
• Proficiency with cloud data services (AWS) and data modeling.
• Familiarity with governance, metadata, and REST API integration.
• Experience with Hadoop, Spark, Kafka and Airflow orchestration.
• Version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
• Design and implement cloud-based data solutions using AWS services.
• Build data orchestration workflows with Airflow or similar tools.
• Assemble large, complex datasets meeting business requirements.
• Engineer analytics environments for advanced modeling.
• Collaborate with analysts to ensure reproducible research and modeling.
• Identify internal process improvements and optimize data delivery.
• Develop dashboards, reports, and analytics models for stakeholders.
• Ensure data governance, privacy, and security compliance.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Big data pipelines

Dashboards & reports

Programming languages

AWS cloud

Data modeling

Data governance

REST API design

Airflow

Git & CI/CD

Big data tech

Tools

Airflow

Git

Informatica

Hadoop/Spark

Kafka

AWS Glue Data Catalog

Job description

Pennsylvania Longitudinal Data System is seeking a Data Engineer & Insights Analyst for an 8+ month contract, with remote work from Harrisburg, PA. The role focuses on transforming complex data into actionable insights, building data pipelines, and delivering analytics products to support state government decisions.

You will design and maintain cloud-based data solutions (AWS), implement data quality controls, and enable reproducible research through dashboards and models.