Data Ops Developer

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Position Title: Data Ops Developer

Location

U.S. Department of Agriculture

1400 Independence Ave., SW

Washington, DC 20250

Period of Performance

Start Date: One 1-year base period plus 1-year option periods

Place of Performance

Remote (Mostly Remote – needs to be able to attend meetings at USDA in DC)

Position Summary: The Data Ops Developer will support the USDA’s Enterprise Human Capital Modernization & Transformation initiative. In this role, the Data Ops Developer builds and maintains automated data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and CI/CD automation. Ensures data reliability, monitors performance, and supports DevSecOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Core Deliverables: Data pipelines, ETL/ELT, migration execution, testing, automation, Lakehouse implementation.

• Data Migration Planning & Coordination: Migration strategy, plans, timelines, crosswalks, mapping rules, trial migrations, reconciliation

• Data Quality & Cleansing : Data quality assessments, dashboards, cleanup campaigns, standards compliance

• Systems Integration Engineering : APIs, integrations, interface design, ICDs, ETL/ELT pipelines, interface remediation, integration testing

• Testing & Validation : Test cases, reconciliation scripts, UAT coordination, data verification

• Databricks Lakehouse Support: Lakehouse architecture, security design, common data model, migration framework, reporting and analytics

Required Qualifications

• Years of Experience: 3 to 5 years of progressive professional experience in data engineering, ETL/ELT development, data integration, data migration, or a related field.

• Data Pipeline and ETL/ELT Engineering : Experience building and maintaining automated data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows supporting HCM data migration, integration, and the USDA Databricks Lakehouse.

• Data Transformation and Validation: Experience implementing data transformation, validation, reconciliation, load sequencing, data quality controls, and exception handling supporting initial and iterative HCM data conversion. The PWS requires profiling, source-to-target mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, loading, and migration-readiness controls.

• Enterprise Integration and Pipeline Support: Experience supporting ETL/ELT pipelines, middleware, integration platforms, and cloud-native integration services, including troubleshooting data transformation and performance issues across environments.

• Automated Data Testing and Reconciliation: Experience developing or supporting automated testing and reconciliation processes used to verify data lineage, accuracy, and completeness during mock migrations and UAT.

• CI/CD Automation, Data Reliability and DevSecOps: Experience supporting CI/CD automation, data reliability, performance monitoring, and DevSecOps practices for enterprise data solutions.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Engineering.

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