Development Engineer

Attain Talent seeks a highly skilled Development Engineer to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This role will play a critical part in modernization, building and maintaining scalable, high-performing data pipelines that drive enterprise analytics, reporting, and operational decision-making. The Development Engineer will focus on developing data ingestion, transformation, and processing pipelines across AWS and Databricks-based environments, with an emphasis on Delta Lake lakehouse architectures.

Qualifications

• Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest, transform, and curate data for analytics and reporting solutions.
• Develop efficient data processing workflows using Python, SQL, and PySpark within Databricks and Delta Lake environments.
• Implement scalable data lakehouse architectures supporting complex healthcare datasets and enterprise analytics.
• Collaborate with Data Architects, Automation Test Engineers, QA Analysts, and Business Analysts to define data transformation logic and data integration standards.
• Build reusable code and frameworks for data ingestion, data quality validation, and exception handling.
• Optimize data processing jobs for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency in AWS and Databricks cloud platforms.
• Participate in schema design, data modeling, and version-controlled data pipeline development.
• Contribute to data governance, metadata management, and data lineage documentation to support audit, compliance, and FISMA reporting requirements.
• Partner with DevOps teams to integrate data pipelines into CI/CD workflows using GitHub, Databricks Repos, and related tools.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolution of data issues across staging, integration, and production environments.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus telehealth services and a confidential Employee Assistance Program.
• Paid time off starting at 3.5 weeks annually, increasing with tenure, plus 11 paid holidays.
• 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 4% of eligible compensation after six months of employment.
• Company-paid basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs, each offering up to $1,500 annually for eligible employees after six months of service, subject to approval.

Attain Talent is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The individual base salary for this position is unique to each candidate and will be commensurate with experience, education, and skills.

Interested in this position but the compensation isn’t quite right? Let us know your expectations, and we’ll see if we can make it happen based on your qualifications.

Salary Range

$62,625—$91,850 USD

Attain Talent is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.  

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