Data Engineer

Requisition # 894 Assignment View Sector Los Angeles County Contractor's Work Location AC-Remote-Auditor-Controller Position Title Data Engineer Labor Category Information Technology Job Category Data Engineer Number of Positions 1 Job Level 1 Submittal allowed per staffing agency 2 Priority Submittals allowed for this Requisition 50 Assignment Type Temporary Is a Livescan Required for Position? Yes Is this role located on-site, hybrid, or remote? Remote Work Location Address Remote, Los Angeles, CA, 90012 Assignment Details Target Start Date 08/17/2026 Target End Date 08/16/2027 Shift Standard Work Schedule Standard Tentative Shift Start Time Tentative Shift End Time Staffing Agency NTE (Not-to-Exceed) Bill Rate $ 89.95 Rate Unit Hour Estimated Regular Hours/Week 40.00 Travel Required No Estimated OT Hours/Week Travel % Travel Description(Domestic/International) Security Clearance None Position Details Background Checks Yes Position Description The Data Engineer works under the direction of an IT Manager or user agency personnel and is responsible for data extraction, analysis, mapping, and conversion activities, including profiling, cleansing, transforming, validating, and loading data from multiple legacy systems into the target solution while ensuring data integrity and reconciliation. The Data Engineer will contribute to defining data requirements, support cross-agency coordination, and help ensure that converted data meets the needs of business users. The Data Engineer will support coordination across organizational units, assist with planning and communication of data conversion activities, and contribute to issue identification and effective information flow among stakeholders. The Data Engineer will also facilitate knowledge transfer or training activities to ensure staff understand and can work with converted data. Skills Required The Data Engineer will possess strong knowledge and experience of legacy systems, flat files, mainframe-extracted data, and structured or unstructured datasets. The Data Engineer will have experience supporting data mapping and crosswalk analysis across organization and vendors, as well as interpreting legacy formats and data dictionaries. The Data Engineer will understand key data conversion requirements such as retention needs, cutover sequencing, and identifying required data elements; have familiarity with ETL processes, reconciliation, encrypted file validation, SFTP structures, and source-to-target relationships; ability to document extraction logic and validation rules, effective cross-organization coordination, and the ability to resolve data inconsistencies and quality issues; and knowledge of government data retention and compliance standards. Additional Skills Required Experience Required This classification requires a minimum of three (3) years of experience supporting field mapping, crosswalk analysis, and data validation during conversion efforts, including troubleshooting data quality issues such as blob-size anomalies and variable-length errors; three (3) years of experience participating in organization coordination activities, including file reviews and data dictionary prioritization, and working with encrypted test files and regulated data; and three (3) years of experience working with legacy and relational data technologies such as mainframe environments, DB2, FOCUS, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server are also required. Additional Experience Required Education Required A bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, data science, engineering, or a closely related field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. Additional Education Required Additional Information For questions and comments about this requisition, please contact: Staffing Specialist: Orlando King Phone: View phone number on click.appcast.io Fax: Email: %View email address on click.appcast.io