Remote Data Engineer: Medallion Databricks & Healthcare

GovCIO; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Education and Certification.

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a Data Engineer to design and build enriched datasets using medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) in Databricks, sourcing data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) and other internal and external systems. The datasets you build will feed directly into Power BI semantic models used by stakeholders across the organization.

This role is fully remote. You will work closely with clients to gather requirements, track work in JIRA, and deliver high-quality, well-documented

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines in Databricks using PySpark and SQL.
• Strong SQL skills with complex joins, aggregations, and performance tuning.
• Experience with Power BI data preparation for semantic models.
• Familiarity with GitHub for version control and code reviews.
• Experience using JIRA to track and manage work.
• Ability to communicate with clients and stakeholders.
• Understanding of medallion (bronze/silver/gold) data architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain datasets using medallion architecture in Databricks.
• Develop, orchestrate, and monitor Databricks jobs and pipelines.
• Write SQL to transform and model healthcare data.
• Prepare gold-layer datasets for Power BI semantic models.
• Manage code in GitHub and follow team review processes.
• Log and track work items in JIRA and report progress.
• Collaborate with clients to clarify data definitions and outputs.
• Perform data validation and quality checks across pipelines.
• Document data lineage and transformation logic for datasets.
• Work with Power BI developers and data scientists to meet reporting needs.

Skills

Databricks

SQL

Power BI

JIRA

GitHub

Stakeholder communication

Medallion architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

GitHub

JIRA

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a Data Engineer to design and build enriched datasets using medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) in Databricks, sourcing data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) and other internal and external systems. The datasets you build will feed directly into Power BI semantic models used by stakeholders across the organization.

This role is fully remote. You will work closely with clients to gather requirements, track work in JIRA, and deliver high-quality, well-documented