Founded in 2007, Initiate Government Solutions (IGS) is a Woman-Owned Small Business and a fully remote IT services provider supporting federal partners nationwide. We deliver innovative Enterprise IT and Health Services solutions with a strong focus on data analytics, health informatics, cloud migration, AI, and the modernization of federal information systems.
Our vision is to be a health IT trendsetter, continuing to solve the nation’s most challenging healthcare IT issues by conceiving, designing, and building solid, creative, and innovative open-source solutions.
Our mission is to innovate, design, and deliver tailored solutions that balance technical advancement with cost-awareness while providing exceptional service.
IGS is currently recruiting a remote Data Engineer Level 1 to support our work with federal customer.
Assignment of Work and Travel:
This is a remote access assignment. Candidates will work remotely daily and will remotely access IGS systems and therein use approved IGS provided communications systems. Travel is not required; however, the candidate may be required to attend onsite client meetings as requested in Rosslyn, VA.
Overview:
The data, analytics, and AI teams operate together to deliver data engineering, analytics, and AI solutions. The team is comprised of cross-functional resources who work together in an agile development process with two week long sprint cycles. Team members are expected to be proactive, collaborative, and mission-focused in the development of enterprise solutions for users across VA.
The team is looking for a Data Engineer to help optimize Veteran VA customer experience through data, analytics, advanced analytics, and AI tools and techniques in direct support of the Veterans Experience Office (VEO).
Responsibilities and Duties (Included but not limited to):
- Develop data engineering pipelines to support data ingestion, data conditioning/cleansing, data integrations to enable data product development.
- Configurate data analytics processes to load data from various VA systems into Customer Experience Insights (CXI) data warehouse.
- Interface with data scientists, data analysts, data stewards to understand the functional and technical data management requirements and develop technical specifications to illustrate/capture the requirements.
- Support ad-hoc data analysis requests by quickly understanding requirements and mapping to data attributes. Deliver ad-hoc data reports based on client reporting specifications.
- Develop automated scripts for data extraction, conditioning, and transformation of large data sets into actionable insights for informed client decision-making – and maintain developed models.
- Augment data analytic product capabilities by studying information needs specific to the client; conferring with users; and following a hybrid agile software development lifecycle.
- 4+ years of experience in Python/Spark programming for implementing data operations such as connectivity, data manipulation, data integration and publication.
- 3+ years of experience in SQL or related query languages.
- 2+ years of experience developing ETL pipelines and troubleshooting data load issues.
- 2+ years of experience in Databricks for data engineering, systems integration, or machine learning projects.
- 2+ years’ experience in data warehousing projects and understanding of implementation of dimensional modelling concepts such as fact and dimension tables.
- 2+ years of experience working with GitHub for code management and deployment.
- 2+ years of experience working with Agile development frameworks.
- 2+ years of prior experience with data analytics with at least 2+ years of experience working in an IT environment.
- 2+ years of prior consulting experience.
- 2+ years of prior work experience in or with the Federal government.
- Ability to quickly adapt and excel in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio.
- Strong organizational and collaboration skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to support business writing, reporting, team and client collaboration, and professional correspondence.
- Must hold a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree.
- US Citizenship and Must have a VA Public Trust
Preferred Qualifications and Core Competencies:
- 4+ years of prior experience working in data and analytics environments.
- 4+ years of experience with data engineering and ETL development.
- 3+ years of experience in Azure cloud services (e.g., Synapse, Containers, ADF, Azure DevOps).
- 2+ years of experience developing data analytics products e.g., PowerBI.
- 2+ years of prior experience in healthcare environments/clients.
- Experience with systems integrations e.g., API integrations.
- Experience with VA systems e.g., CX Insights, Lighthouse APIs, Medallia.
- Experience in/familiar with Jira.
- Strong organizational and management skills.
Successful IGS employees embody the following Core Values:
- Integrity, Honesty, and Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest level of ethics. Doing things like being accountable for mistakes, accepting helpful criticism, and following through on commitments to ourselves, each other, and our customers.
- Empathy, Emotional Intelligence: How we interact with others including peers, colleagues, stakeholders, and customers matters. We take collective responsibility to create an environment where colleagues and customers feel valued, included, and respected. We work within a diverse, integrated, and collaborative team to drive towards accomplishing the larger mission. We conscientiously and meticulously learn about our customers’ and end-users’ business drivers and challenges to ensure solutions meet not only technical needs but also support their mission.
- Strong Work Ethic (Reliability, Dedication, Productivity): We are driven by a strong, self-motivated, and results-driven work ethic. We are reliable, accountable, proactive, and tenacious and will do what it takes to get the job done.
- Life-Long Learner (Curious, Perspective, Goal Orientated): We challenge ourselves to continually learn and improve ourselves. We strive to be an expert in our field, continuously honing our craft, and finding solutions where others see problems.
Compensation: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary, including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.
Initiate Government Solutions offers competitive compensation and a robust benefits package, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care, matching 401K and profit sharing, paid time off, training time for personal development, flexible spending accounts, employer-paid life insurance, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage, an education assistance program with potential merit increases for obtaining a work-related certification, employee recognition, and referral programs, spot bonuses, and other benefits that help provide financial protection for the employee and their family.
Initiate Government Solutions participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program.
Initiate Government Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. Our company policy is to provide equal opportunity in all areas of employment practice without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, or disability.
