Software Engineer (Data)

Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation focused on modernizing government services. The Software Engineer (Data) will partner with government stakeholders to modernize data architectures, design scalable data models, and improve pipeline performance and security for critical public programs.

Responsibilities:

• Work with cross-functional project teams to gather business requirements and translate to detailed technical specifications
• Work with Government partners to assist and develop data engineering applications and pipelines that will enable data services and processing capabilities, such as advanced analytics, AI/ML, and experimentation
• Design, develop, test, automate, and deploy data engineering solutions in a cloud platforms, such as AWS
• Participate in software design and code reviews
• Develop automated testing, monitoring and alerting, and CI/CD for production systems

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience with professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development, Test Driven Development, CI/CD, and Source Code Management
• Experience with building ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and store data
• Prior experience with Python programming for both data processing and server-side use cases
• Experience with data cleaning, modeling, schema design while protecting sensitive data
• Proficient with building data integrations using both API and file-based protocols
• Proficient with relational databases and advanced SQL queries, particularly with Postgresql
• Experience with using data observability tools to maintain data infrastructure and data quality
• Proficient in refining high-level goals into high-impact, low-effort tasks and milestones based on human-centered design practices to prioritize options for stakeholders
• Legal authorization to work in the United States
• Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired
• Work authorization that doesn't require visa sponsorship, now or in the future
• May be subject to a government background check or security clearance, depending on the contract
• Experience using data observability tools to maintain data infrastructure and data quality
• Experience with AWS services like ECS, S3, CloudWatch, and Glue
• Infrastructure as code experience tools like Terraform
• Legacy modernization, especially with mainframes
• Comfortable troubleshooting complex data and systems interaction problems