3 months ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$130k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own data migrations end-to-end, including source-system discovery, schema mappings, ingestion settings, validations, dry runs, and production launches.
- Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and edge cases and prevent unsafe or incorrect data from reaching production.
- Lead customer calls and explain data requirements, constraints, and tradeoffs to government staff.
- Improve migration tools, templates, and playbooks to make onboarding faster and more repeatable.
- Document recurring issues and tooling gaps and share feedback with Product and Engineering.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of hands-on experience in data migrations, ETL/ELT, technical implementations, or a closely related role involving messy production data.
- Ability to work directly in a Python codebase by reading, debugging, and shipping changes through pull requests.
- Strong practical SQL proficiency for analysis, validation, reconciliation, and transformation.
- Experience translating ambiguous stakeholder requirements into concrete, testable migration or implementation plans.
- Track record of high ownership, execution, and attention to correctness in customer-impacting environments.
- Preferred: experience with Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, workflow orchestration, pipeline operations, safe reruns, and large backfills or imports.
- Preferred: customer-facing implementation or onboarding experience with non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred: familiarity with geospatial data or GIS tooling such as ArcGIS, or willingness to learn quickly.
- Preferred: experience in B2B SaaS or similarly complex product domains where data correctness affects workflows.
- Preferred: experience partnering with Product and Engineering to turn operational problems into playbooks, tooling improvements, and system-level fixes.
Benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) program
- Hybrid work with at least 3 days per week in person at the New York City office and flexibility to work remotely
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About GovWell
GovWell builds an AI-powered software platform that replaces legacy systems for municipalities and counties, serving as the system of record for permits, licensing, and other public-service workflows. The company sells its SaaS to local government agencies to streamline processing and citizen interactions across many states. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York City, GovWell is venture-backed and has raised a Series A.