Data Engineer at TrueTandem | Remote | $125,000–$135,000

Overview

TrueTandem is hiring a full-time, fully remote Data Engineer for its solutions delivery team. The role contributes to modernizing mission-critical government systems by building secure data integrations and pipelines. The advertised salary is $125,000 to $135,000 per year, with employee benefits.

The engineer works with multidisciplinary teams to design and maintain systems linking portals, Microsoft Power Platform, Azure services, SQL Server, existing applications and approved file-transfer platforms. The work supports health-screening data collection, workflow automation, notifications, reporting, analytics and secure delivery of results. Solutions run in approved GCC cloud environments and must meet FISMA Moderate security requirements, federal privacy controls, Agile delivery practices and Enterprise Performance Life Cycle requirements, within an automate-first DevSecOps culture.

What you will do

Responsibilities include designing and maintaining secure ETL and ELT processes for structured and unstructured public health data, building scalable batch, scheduled, event-driven and near-real-time pipelines, and supporting portal data intake, validation, workflows, reporting and analytics. The engineer also develops bidirectional data exchange integrations, connects Power Pages, Power Apps, Dataverse and Power Automate with Azure services and APIs, links applications to SQL Server and file-transfer platforms, and builds secure SQL Server integrations through approved APIs, stored procedures, connectors, gateways, hybrid connections or VPN interfaces while preventing direct public database access.

Requirements

Applicants need at least five years of experience in data engineering, systems integration, data warehousing, analytics engineering or database development, with strong production ETL and ELT experience using SQL and Python. Strong SQL Server development skills are expected, including queries, views, stored procedures, data modelling, performance optimization and controlled database interfaces. Candidates should be able to work independently within an Agile team.

U.S. citizenship is required for positions involving a government clearance and certain other restricted roles, so applicants should check eligibility first.

What you get

Benefits listed are health, dental and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, company-paid holidays, paid time off and a retirement plan with investment options. Final base salary may vary with scope, experience, education, skills and market conditions.

How to apply

Applications go through the employer's recruitment platform. No deadline is stated.