Database Administrator

At RELI Group, our work is grounded in purpose. We partner with government agencies to solve complex challenges, improve public health, strengthen national security, and make government services more effective and efficient. Our team of over 500 professionals brings deep expertise and a shared commitment to delivering meaningful outcomes. Behind every solution is a group of experts who care deeply about impact—whether we’re supporting data-driven decisions, modernizing systems or safeguarding critical programs.

About the role

RELI Group is seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This role will play a critical part in modernization, building and maintaining scalable, high-performing data pipelines that drive enterprise analytics, reporting, and operational decision-making. The Data Engineer will focus on developing data ingestion, transformation, and processing pipelines across AWS and Databricks-based environments, with an emphasis on Delta Lake lakehouse architectures.

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.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $62,625 to $91,850. Actual compensation will depend on a range of factors, including but not limited to the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, certifications, location, other business and organizational needs, and applicable employment laws.

Benefits

RELI Group provides a variety of additional benefits to its employees. View details.