Data Solutions Engineer

Data Solutions Engineer

GovWell is hiring a Data Solutions Engineer to help governments transition from legacy systems to modern software. You'll own customer data migrations and GIS onboarding end-to-end, working directly with government teams to map schemas, validate data, and ensure accurate, complete data is loaded into GovWell's platform. This role reports directly to Ben Cohen, Co-Founder and CTO, and works closely with Product, Engineering, and Deployment to make onboarding faster, more reliable, and increasingly repeatable as GovWell scales. We have a hybrid work culture that combines regular in-person collaboration at our New York City office (3+ days per week) with flexibility to work remotely.

What You'll Do

• Execute customer data migrations and GIS onboarding end-to-end, working directly with government staff to understand source systems, configure mappings and ingestion settings, run validations and dry-runs, and ensure accurate, complete data is loaded into GovWell.
• Own onboarding data quality and correctness by identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and edge cases in legacy data; making documented judgment calls within defined constraints, and preventing bad or unsafe data from entering production.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact during onboarding, leading customer calls, clearly explaining data requirements and tradeoffs, and guiding agencies through the transition from legacy systems to GovWell with confidence.
• Operate and improve repeatable onboarding processes using internal tools, templates, and playbooks to reduce time-to-launch, minimize manual work, and ensure migrations and GIS ingestion become increasingly predictable as volume scales.
• Provide structured feedback to Product and Engineering teams by documenting recurring issues, unmet assumptions, and tooling gaps encountered during migrations, helping inform platform and process improvements without introducing one-off solutions.

Who You Are

• 2–3+ years of hands-on experience in data solutions, data migrations, ETL/onboarding, technical implementations, or a closely related role involving messy, real-world data.
• Strong SQL proficiency used in practice for data validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience working directly with customer-provided data, including interpreting poorly documented schemas, resolving inconsistencies, and making tradeoffs to deliver usable outcomes.
• Strong data quality and validation instincts: able to identify risky data issues early, run effective QA, and prevent incorrect data from reaching production.
• Comfortable interfacing directly with non-technical stakeholders, clearly explaining technical constraints, requirements, and tradeoffs in calm, plain language.
• Highly reliable and execution-oriented: you take full ownership of migrations end-to-end, communicate proactively, and deliver on deadlines.
• Process-driven and disciplined: you follow playbooks, avoid one-off solutions, and contribute to making onboarding more repeatable as GovWell scales.
• Motivated by the real-world impact that clean, trusted data has on helping governments serve residents better.

Our Tech Stack

• SQL – your core tool for validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting
• Airflow – for managing data migration pipelines
• PostgreSQL – our core database
• Python – used in data workflows and automation
• Hex – your general-purpose data tool for loading, transforming, and QAing data
• RedwoodJS, GraphQL, TypeScript, AWS – the broader software engineering environment you'll interact with

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation within the posted salary band will be commensurate with experience. All offers will include:

• Competitive base salary.
• Equity / stock options.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) program.