Senior Data Engineer, Medicaid (contract) - Remote Eligible

Senior Data Engineer

You'll join a high-profile project with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), where you'll transform a manual healthcare data process into an automated push-button solution. As a Senior Data Engineer, you are the primary architect and builder of this new system. Your work will directly create a more sustainable, reliable, and secure data workflow for a vital Medicaid function.

For People is a team of humans. We place a significant amount of emphasis on positive work-life balance, setting healthy expectations, and making sure our loved ones are taken care of first. That means picking a child up from school during the day or going for a mid-day walk is okay!

This is a 6-month contract position with a competitive hourly rate of $120/hr. This is a fully remote role, open to candidates located anywhere within the United States. Due to the accelerated 6-month timeline and the complexity of the project, we have a strong preference for candidates with prior experience working with CMS or similar federal government agencies. This background will be crucial for ramping up quickly and making an immediate impact on this high-priority initiative.

Your Opportunities

At For People, you will:

• Architect, build, and deploy a robust, end-to-end data pipeline in a modern cloud environment centered in Databricks.
• Take existing scripts and operationalize them, migrating legacy processes to a scalable solution.
• Design and implement a critical integration with an external government API, including the logic to manage throughput with batch processing.
• Engineer a secure and automated mechanism for generating and distributing segmented files containing sensitive data.
• Develop the core push-button automation that will allow federal staff to run the entire monthly process independently.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists to implement their complex data logic and ensure the pipeline is both efficient and accurate.

You Bring

• A humble and caring attitude aligning with For People's values– how we work with passion, fun, curiosity and sustainability, humility and respect.
• Significant hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-level data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows.
• Strong programming skills, particularly in Python, for data engineering, automation, and API integration.
• Expertise in SQL and experience working with large-scale data warehouses or databases.
• Proven experience building solutions in a major cloud environment, ideally using infrastructure-as-code principles.
• A builder's mindset with a passion for creating elegant, sustainable, and automated solutions to complex problems.
• A collaborative spirit and the ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team, translating requirements into functional code.
• Experience with platforms like Databricks or integrating with federal APIs is a significant plus.

Additional Details

You will be working on a United States government platform, and they have a few basic requirements for contractors like ourselves. You must perform all work physically within the United States at all times. In addition, you must be a United States citizen and be able to pass a government-performed public trust background check. For People is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, and/or veteran status.