This is a fully remote position. 

Work on things that matter
Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to design and engineer government systems that connect Veterans with services, bring affordable health care to millions of people, and support important programs like Head Start. And as we work to make critical government services intuitive, accessible, and human-centered, we’re also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology. If you thrive on change, want to help close the gap between consumer expectations and government services, and can see the possibilities in ambiguity, then we want you here with us. 

What matters most
Ad Hoc operates according to our commitment to inclusivity, acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We believe in missions larger than our individual selves and leave our egos at the door, learn from our mistakes, and iterate in order to better serve the people in our country. We prioritize building teams that represent the diversity of the people our government serves. We love the challenge of government-size projects. We want to bring skills to federal agencies, help them better meet the needs of their users, and close the gap between consumer expectations and government. 

Built for a remote life
Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We’ve designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide distributed team since the beginning. Being remote by design allows Ad Hoc to be thoughtful and intentional about creating diverse teams and supporting them with a work environment that fits their lives. With a generous PTO policy and Slack channels for every interest (from bird watching to space nerds to parenting) our culture embraces the things happening in your life. Maybe you need to adjust your schedule to care for your family or take a bike ride. At Ad Hoc, that’s embraced. 

The selected candidate will exhibit influential skills to drive improvements in data engineering processes and practices; and they will exhibit a comprehensive understanding of the business, the practices, as well as customer’s needs. Build systems that collect, manage, and convert raw data into usable information for data analysts to interpret. Make data accessible so that VA leaders can use it to understand, evaluate, and optimize Veteran experiences.

Organizational Overview: 

The Veterans Affairs business unit helps transform the VA into a modern digital services organization where Veteran outcomes are at the center of every effort. We partner with the VA to design and deliver seamless user experiences for Veterans, their families and caregivers, and VA employees. By applying better practices in service design, product management, and technology, we enable VA to increase the usage, quality, and reliability of services and decrease the time Veterans spend waiting for outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities: 

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Data Engineer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s data strategy. You may serve as the discipline's primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in data processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Data Engineer include: 

• Strong influential skills to propose and evaluate multiple approaches to technical and process problems
• Serves as a mentor to individuals within the team
• May leads small, less critical, or temporary team structures and projects
• Presents design documents, system diagrams, etc. to clients, stakeholders, partners, and other engineers
• Fully understands and consistently implements data engineering best practices
• Generates data architecture recommendations and demonstrates the ability to implement them
• Diagnoses and effectively resolves issues with the systems they own, using incidents to inform educational opportunities and system improvements
• Actively mentors and assists more junior engineers in the development of their skills
• Effectively communicates technical issues and developments with team members and clients Deliver large features and foundational improvements with minimal guidance and support
• Participates in technical interviews with new candidates

Basic Qualifications: 

• Degree - Bachelor’s - Business Administration, Business Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Resource Management, Industrial Engineering, or related fields
• 5 years professional experience
• 10 years of profession experience may be substituted for a Degree
• Experience hunting down siloed data, and working with /through gatekeepers to do so
• Experience building data bases, dashboards from disparate sources of data
• Ability to operate independently outside of a data or engineering team
• Ability to/interest in Practice Management
• Demonstrates expert-level knowledge in multiple data ingestion systems, cloud database services, and visualization software
• Mastery of key Data concepts including constructing databases, processing big data, improving data accuracy, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Experience working in a greenfield environment, operating independently as a founding data engineer in a team to develop a portfolio-wide quantitative data strategy
• Experience with data warehousing, creating scalable data lakes, and data-ops (data pipeline automation)
• Government contracting experience is a plus, especially within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
• Communication skills, consulting skills, business acumen
• Expert level of SQL fluency across multiple RDBMS
• Expertise with Python (especially NumPy and SciPy packages)
• Experience working with SAS and other flat files
• Familiarity with customer survey data (Qualtrix, Medallia, etc.)
• Experience with JSON, GeoJSON objects is a plus
• Experience with Google Big Query, Synapse/Databricks
• Familiarity with web analytics tools

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Benefits

• Company-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Use What You Need Vacation Policy
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service

Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 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.   

In support of the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, and others like it across the country, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $101,570 - $130,000 and information on benefits offered is here. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

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