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Job Highlights
Location: Remote, must be based in the United States
Salary Range: $103,500-$143,500 per year, plus benefits. Individual salary offers will be based on experience and qualifications unique to each candidate.
Position Type: Grant funded, limited-term opportunity
Position End Date: June 30, 2025
Overview
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in advancing the CDC Foundation's mission by designing, building, and maintaining data infrastructure for a public health organization. This role is aligned to the Workforce Acceleration Initiative (WAI). WAI is a federally funded CDC Foundation program with the goal of helping the nation’s public health agencies by providing them with the technology and data experts they need to accelerate their information system improvements.
Working within the Salt Lake County Health Department's Information Technology (IT) team, part of the Internal Services Division, the Data Engineer will play a key role in developing and delivering technical solutions that enhance the use of public health data to inform decision-making. The Data Engineer will collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams to evaluate, design, build, and manage data infrastructure. This includes automating processes, creating efficient workflows, and ensuring data quality and accessibility. In addition to supporting the Data Modernization Initiative (DMI), the Data Engineer will also contribute to other department projects in IT and informatics, ensuring cohesive and aligned efforts across initiatives. Their work involves studying existing databases, designing scalable data systems, and implementing solutions that meet the needs of the public health agency.
The Data Engineer role will be hired by the CDC Foundation and assigned to the Salt Lake County health Department of Health, Information Technology (IT) team, part of the Internal Services Division. This position is eligible for a fully remote work arrangement for U.S. based candidates
Special Notes
This role is involved in a dynamic public health program. As such, roles and responsibilities are subject to change as situations evolve. Roles and responsibilities listed above may be expanded upon or updated to match priorities and needs, once written approval is received by the CDC Foundation in order to best support the public health programming.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.
We comply with all applicable laws including E.O. 11246 and the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 governing employment practices and do not discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria in accordance with 41 C.F.R. §§ 60-300.5(a)(12) and 60-741.5(a)(7). As a federal government contractor, we take affirmative action on behalf of protected veterans.
The CDC Foundation is a smoke-free environment.
Relocation expenses are not included.