Remote Technical Solutions Engineer - Data Integration

DataKind; United States; Remote; USD 133,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Wellness benefits

Medical, vision and dental insurance

Wellness reimbursement

Parental leave

Professional development funding

401(k) with employer matching

In-person retreats

Job summary

DataKind is seeking a hands-on Technical Solutions Engineer to drive data integration, solution design, and cross-team technical partnership from discovery through deployment. This is a temporary, full-time staff position with an anticipated end date of September 30, 2028.

Remote position available anywhere in the U.S. with working hours primarily between 8am-6pm Eastern Time. Estimated travel of 10-20% to support institutional go-lives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in hands-on technical implementation or solutions architecture.
• Must have personally written and shipped production code, data pipelines, and system integrations.
• Able to configure and troubleshoot data mappings, schemas, and data flows; proficient in SQL and Python.
• Comfortable running technical discovery directly with institutional IT/data teams.

Responsibilities

• Directly build and ship the technical work each institution's onboarding requires – writing and modifying code, pipelines, and configuration to connect their systems to ours.
• Configure, validate, and troubleshoot data mappings, schema alignment, and data flows specific to each institution's environment.
• Anticipate integration risks and unblock issues independently before they stall a deployment.
• Build reusable technical assets: reference architectures, integration playbooks, mapping templates so that each institution onboards faster than the last.
• Partner with Engineering and Product to confirm proposed integration solutions are feasible and align with platform direction.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data integration

Data pipelines

Client-facing delivery

Job description

DataKind is seeking a hands-on Technical Solutions Engineer to drive data integration, solution design, and cross-team technical partnership from discovery through deployment. This is a temporary, full-time staff position with an anticipated end date of September 30, 2028.

Remote position available anywhere in the U.S. with working hours primarily between 8am-6pm Eastern Time. Estimated travel of 10-20% to support institutional go-lives.