Sr. Data Engineer

Job Details: Level: Experienced, Job Location: Remote - Baltimore, MD, Education Level: 4 Year Degree, Salary Range: $129200.00 - $178500.00Salary/year, Index Analytics is seeking a Data Engineer to support Government clients to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and cloud-based solutions. The Data Engineer plays a key role in modernizing the organization’s data ecosystem by helping transition legacy data analytics solutions to a contemporary infrastructure. This role blends advanced data engineering with hands‑on cloud solutions engineering, leveraging AWS, Snowflake, and modern DevOps practices. The ideal candidate has experience delivering high‑quality solutions in an Agile environment.

The customer is very mission-focused, technically knowledgeable, and provides excellent support. This is an attractive and stimulating role on an amazing program that aims to make a real difference. The analytics system developed by the team at Index directly supports investigators, auditors, and other analysts working to identify and deter fraud, reduce waste, curtail patient harm, protect vulnerable children, and improve health outcomes for millions of Americans. Bring your passion for good work and help us make a difference!

Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with stakeholders and cross‑functional, internal technical teams to gather requirements, document business rules and develop a thorough understanding of the business context and objectives
Analyze data, create meaningful insights, and present information clearly to stakeholders.
Leverage experience with Medicare and Medicaid data to build data access and semantic layers for data products
Develop and optimize data models, both conceptual and physical, to support analytics, reporting, and operational consumption
Implement data quality, validation, and monitoring frameworks to ensure accuracy and reliability
Improve end-to-end performance of data workflows 
Develop and maintain cloud-based data infrastructure using AWS services such as S3, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, CloudWatch, SQS, DynamoDB, SageMaker and Event Bridge
Collaborate to design secure, scalable, and cost‑optimized data solutions.
Contribute to cloud governance, security, and best practices
Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable ETL/ELT data pipelines using AWS and Snowflake
Ensure data workflows are modular, testable, and properly version‑controlled.
Operationalize pipelines with monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery mechanisms
Meet schedule deadlines and commitments with a high-level of quality of deliverables. 
Collaborate with a team of cross-functional resources in an Agile delivery environment to deliver iterative value

Qualifications:
US citizen or lived in the US for 3 of the last 5 years. Must be able to obtain a U.S. Federal government client badge and pass a government background investigation
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with eight (8) or more years of experience as Data Engineer or similar role
Hands-on experience in SQL and Python is required
Prior working knowledge of CMS enterprise repositories like IDR.
Working knowledge of Medicare Part B & Part D data and Medicaid data
Strong proficiency in AWS services, Snowflake
Strong proficiency in GitHub for source control, branching strategy and reviews
Knowledge of data integration patterns, data warehousing, and modern data architecture
Experience with object‑oriented programming and building with software engineering principles
DevOps exposure, including CI/CD tools like Jenkins
Strong written and verbal communication skills are required, ability to collaborate, present, and report to stakeholders on findings.
Knowledge of Agile framework, Scrum methodologies and knowledge of tools used to support them.
Prior experience with government agencies is a plus.