Data Engineer (Public Trust Required)

Job summary

Description ICF*** is seeking a detail-oriented Data Engineer to support the development, optimization, and deployment of large-scale healthcare data pipelines and analytical datasets. This role will focus on cancer registry and population-based data systems.

Benefits

Qualifications

• gathering and design to implementation, validation, and maintenance.
• This position can be based in Rockville, MD or Atlanta, GA and offers a hybrid work arrangement, with 2–3 days per week onsite at the ICF*** office.
• Position requires a minimum of 2 years of experience in data engineering or working with healthcare data environments
• BA/BS in computer science, Data Science, Statistics, Public Health Informatics, Bioinformatics, or related field
• The position requires strong expertise in data integration, transformation, quality control, and the delivery of production-ready data for analytics and reporting platforms.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with Python, PySpark, Spark SQL, and commonly used Python libraries for data processing and analysis
• Experience with Python libraries such as pandas, NumPy, PyArrow, matplotlib, Plotly, or similar

Responsibilities

• As part of the team contributing to the fight against cancer, you will work with high-volume, complex structured datasets using NAACCR registry-standard formats.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, cloud-based data pipelines using Python, PySpark, and SQL in cloud environments
• Process and standardize large-scale healthcare datasets, including cancer registry, mortality, and population data
• Develop and maintain production databases, analytic datasets, and reporting tables for statistical analysis and surveillance
• Perform rigorous data quality validation, reconciliation, and consistency checks across large datasets
• Collaborate with epidemiologists, statisticians, and analysts to design and implement data solutions for analytics needs
• Troubleshoot data pipeline failures and large-scale data processing issues

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Security clearance