Senior Data Engineer — Databricks & Power BI (Remote)

GovCIO; Trenton (NJ); 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 VA CDW and other systems. You’ll feed Power BI semantic models used by stakeholders and collaborate with clients to gather requirements, track work in JIRA, and deliver well-documented pipelines.

This is a fully remote role. Responsibilities span data warehousing, cloud analytics, and data quality across pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience or commensurate experience.
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines and transformations in Databricks (PySpark and/or SQL).
• Strong SQL skills including complex joins, aggregations, and performance tuning.
• Experience working with Power BI, including preparing data for semantic models.
• Familiarity with GitHub for version control and collaborative development.
• Experience using JIRA or similar tools to track and manage work.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working directly with clients/stakeholders.
• Understanding of medallion (bronze/silver/gold) data architecture principles.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain enriched datasets following medallion architecture in Databricks.
• Develop, orchestrate, and monitor Databricks jobs and pipelines.
• Write efficient, well-structured SQL to transform and model healthcare data.
• Prepare and optimize gold-layer datasets for Power BI semantic models.
• Manage code and version control through GitHub with team branch reviews.
• Log, track, and update work items in JIRA.
• Partner with clients and stakeholders to understand requirements and verify outputs.
• Troubleshoot data quality issues and ensure accuracy across pipelines.
• Write ad hoc queries to support client requests and analyses.
• Document data lineage, transformation logic, and business rules.

Skills

Databricks

PySpark

SQL

Power BI

GitHub

JIRA

Medallion architecture

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

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 VA CDW and other systems. You’ll feed Power BI semantic models used by stakeholders and collaborate with clients to gather requirements, track work in JIRA, and deliver well-documented pipelines.

This is a fully remote role. Responsibilities span data warehousing, cloud analytics, and data quality across pipelines.