Position: Data Engineer/Senior Data Engineer
Who we are: For the last 17 years, the Voter Participation Center (VPC), a 501(c)(3) civic engagement organization, has led the way in recognizing and harnessing the potential power of the Rising American Electorate (RAE) – unmarried women, people of color, and young people – as a vital voting bloc. VPC has positioned itself as the leading experimental and scientific civic engagement organization by accumulating more than a decade's worth of knowledge and experience in registering and turning out the new majority of eligible voters. VPC's programs have consistently proven to be some of the most impactful and cost-effective programs—and to date VPC has registered almost 4 million Americans to vote. VPC continues to innovate with its approach and techniques to impact greater civic engagement, registration, and turnout. VPC's approach to programs incorporates a rigorous approach to data analysis, incorporating randomized trials, and other methods and technologies to determine effect.
The Center for Voter Information (CVI) is a separate but affiliated progressive 501(c)(4) nonprofit that works to engage and persuade both the RAE as well as the broader electorate. CVI also engages in rigorous work to determine net effect and uses other technologies to determine the goals reached in each of its program areas.
Position Overview:
VPC/CVI seeks either a Data Engineer or Senior Data Engineer (depending on level of experience) who will be at the forefront of VPC/CVI's effort to modernize and upgrade its data infrastructure--including the development of a new and more efficient data model to manage, process, and distribute data; implement, test, and maintain pipelines in the data warehouse and analytics environment to improve data quality and integrity, and develop flexible pipeline solutions for data integration, processing, and analysis. The data engineer will work closely with the Data & Analytics and Program teams to mine, integrate, and analyze terabytes of data from a variety of sources, such as voter registration, commercial, and VPC/CVI's historical program data. The data engineer will build tools to automate repetitive processes that are currently performed manually, and deploy high-quality data pipelines that will enable the teams to work smarter and faster, empowering VPC/CVI to draw better actionable insights and run stronger and more cost effective civic engagement, registration, and turnout programs.
An ideal candidate has deep passion for increasing voter participation among underrepresented constituencies, and is a collaborator who thrives in a team environment and takes ownership of the work by actively contributes to improving processes, workflows, and communication.
This position reports to the Director of Data and Analytics.
Specific Duties:
Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain data engineering solutions and pipelines in support of VPC/CVI's data warehouse and analytics environment that are stable, secure, and scalable
Streamline and debug existing codebase to improve performance and ensure data integrity
Implement quality assurance practices such as version control and testing
Design and build tools and workflows to automate repeated data processing tasks including data ingestion from various sources, and reporting and data exchanges with our partners
Implement and maintain cybersecurity best practices, with an eye towards the evolving threat landscape
Help teammates troubleshoot their SQL and Python code and provide training on those skills
Proactively identify technology and tools gaps, and discover better solutions
Assist in analytics projects by performing data manipulation/munging on a wide variety of data
Collaborate with data scientists to productionize ML models
Generate new data sources through web scraping and API calls
Design and build automated dashboards and reports to inform program decisions
Support the adoption of industry best practices for data management and governance
Skills and Qualifications
Must-Haves:
Proficiency in:
Architecting data pipelines and maintaining relational databases
Data ETL, ingestion, optimization, collection, analysis, and normalization
Designing system architecture in cloud infrastructure services such as AWS and GCP
SQL, especially for query optimization, data compression, and streaming techniques
Python, especially for data manipulation and modification, and building, maintaining and deploying automated processes
Object-oriented programming
UNIX shell scripting (Bash/Zsh)
Version control (Git and Github)
Using APIs to push and pull data
Extensive track records of writing clear code that is well-documented
Extensive track records of designing, implementing, testing, distributing, and maintaining wrappers/tools/utility functions for automated tasks
Demonstrated ability to learn new techniques and troubleshoot code without support; work independently and be a self-starter
Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams, in both a lead and support role
Demonstrated ability to coach teammates to improve their skills and teach new skills
Effective time management skills, including demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects.
Preferred:
Familiarity with web app development tools such as Flask and Heroku
Familiarity with Stata
Experience in Catalist S and Civis Platform
Experience in JSON/XML, CSS, and HTML
Experience in advanced data visualization and mapping
Experience in or knowledge of large scale voter registration and civic engagement programs
VPC/CVI is open to candidates at either the Data Engineer or Senior Data Engineer level. The annual salary range is $90-100k for the Data Engineer position, and $100-120k for the Senior Data Engineer position--both commensurate with experience. This role could be based out of our Washington DC office or remote, depending on the circumstances. VPC/CVI offers an excellent benefits package, including 100% coverage of healthcare premiums. To apply, email resume, cover letter and at least two professional references to info@voterparticipation.org. References are not contacted until you are notified.
VPC/CVI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We strongly value the leadership of people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and other traditionally marginalized communities, and encourage diverse candidates to apply.
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