Development Engineer

Attain Talent is hiring a Development Engineer to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The role modernizes data capabilities by building and maintaining scalable pipelines for enterprise analytics, reporting, and operational decision-making across AWS and Databricks environments.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of relevant professional experience, or
• Associates degree plus 8 years of relevant professional experience, or
• High school diploma plus 9 years of relevant professional experience
• Demonstrated knowledge of Medicare Part D, drug pricing, manufacturer rebate structures, or government pricing programs
• Strong analytical and investigative skills
• Knowledge of federal healthcare regulations, especially those related to pharmaceutical pricing and compliance with government programs
• Exceptional communication and writing skills, with ability to present complex findings to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple investigations simultaneously
• Experience using case management systems, e-discovery tools, and data analytics platforms