Agile Six is a people-first, remote-work company that serves shoulder-to-shoulder with federal agencies to find innovative, human-centered solutions. We build better by putting people first. We are animated by our core values of Purpose, Wholeness, Trust, Self-Management and Inclusion. We deliver our solutions in autonomous teams of self-managed professionals (no managers here!) who genuinely care about each other and the work. We know that’s our company’s purpose – and that we can only achieve it by supporting a culture where people feel valued, self-managed, and love to come to work.
The role
Agile Six is looking for a Data Engineer for an anticipated role on our cross-functional agile teams. Our partners include: the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and others.
The successful candidate will bring their experience in data formatting and integration engineering to help us expand a reporting platform. As part of the team, you will primarily be responsible for data cleaning and data management tasks, building data pipelines, and data modeling (designing the schema/structure of datasets and relationships between datasets). We are looking for someone who enjoys working on solutions to highly complex problems and someone who is patient enough to deal with the complexities of navigating the Civic Tech space. The successful candidate for this role is an excellent communicator, as well as someone who is curious about where data analysis, backend development, data engineering, and data science intersect.
We embrace open source software and an open ethos regarding software development, and are looking for a candidate who does the same. Most importantly, we are looking for someone with a passion for working on important problems that have a lasting impact on millions of users and make a difference in our government!
Please note, this position is anticipated, pending contract award response.
Responsibilities
- Contribute as a member of a cross functional Agile team using your expertise in data engineering, critical thinking, and collaboration to solve problems related to the project
- Experience with Java/Kotlin/Python, command line, and Git is required
- Experience with transport protocols including: REST, SFTP, SOAP is required
- Experience with HL7 2.5.1 and FHIR is strongly preferred
- Extract, transform, and load data. Pull together datasets, build data pipelines, and turn semi-structured and unstructured data into datasets that can be used for machine learning models.
- Evaluate and recommend
- We expect the responsibilities of this position to shift and grow organically over time, in response to considerations such as the unique strengths and interests of the selected candidate and other team members and an evolving understanding of the delivery environment.
Basic qualifications
- 2+ years of hands-on data engineering experience in a production environment
- Experience with Java/Kotlin/Python, command line, and Git
- Demonstrated experience with extract, transform, load (ETL) and data cleaning, data manipulation, and data management
- Demonstrated experience building and orchestrating automated data pipelines in Java/Python
- Experience with data modeling: defining the schema/structure of datasets and the relationships between datasets
- Ability to create usable datasets from semi-structured and unstructured data
- Solution-oriented mindset and proactive approach to solving complex problems
- Ability to be autonomous, take initiative, and effectively communicate status and progress
- Experience successfully collaborating with cross-functional partners and other designers and researchers, seeking and providing feedback in an Agile environment
- Adaptive, empathetic, collaborative, and holds a positive mindset
- Has lived and worked in the United States for 3 out of the last 5 years
- Some of our clients may request or require travel from time to time. If this is a concern for you, we encourage you to apply and discuss it with us at your initial interview
Additional desired qualifications
- Familiarity with the Electronic Laboratory Reporting workflows and data flow
- Knowledge of FHIR data / API standard, HL7 2.5.1
- Experience building or maintaining web service APIs
- Familiarity with various machine learning (ML) algorithms and their application to common ML problems (e.g. regression, classification, clustering)
- Statistical experience or degree
- Experience developing knowledge of complex domain and systems
- Experience working with government agencies
- Ability to work across multiple applications, components, languages, and frameworks
- Experience working in a cross-functional team, including research, design, engineering, and product
- You are a U.S. Veteran. As a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, we recognize the transition to civilian life can be tricky, and welcome and encourage Veterans to apply
At Agile Six, we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We’re eager to meet people who believe in our mission and who can contribute to our team in a variety of ways.
Salary and Sixer Benefits
To promote equal pay for equal work, we publish salary ranges for each position.
The salary range for this position is $119,931-$126,081
Our benefits are designed to reinforce our core values of Wholeness, Self Management and Inclusion. The following benefits are available to all employees. We respect that only you know what balance means for your life and season. While we offer support from coaches, we expect you to own your wholeness, show up for work whole, and go home to your family the same. You will be seen, heard and valued. We expect you to offer the same for your colleagues, be kind (not controlling), be caring (not directive) and ready to participate in a state of flow. We mean it when we say “We build better by putting people first”.
All Sixers Enjoy:
- Self-managed work/life balance and flexibility
- Competitive and equitable salary (equal pay for equal work)
- Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP) for all employees!
- 401K matching
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer paid short and long term disability insurance
- Employer paid life insurance
- Self-managed and generous paid time off
- Paid federal holidays and Election day off
- Paid parental leave
- Self-managed professional development spending
- Self-managed wellness days
Hiring practices
Agile Six Applications, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.
Note: We participate in E-Verify. Upon hire, we will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas at this time.
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Please read and respond to the application questions carefully. Interviews are conducted on a rolling basis until the position has been filled.
