Cloud Data Engineer (Remote)
GovCIO · Nashville, TN
$175,000–$200,000from the description
Jul 2, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior cloud data engineering role supporting a federal agency's data modernization program, focused on building and automating Databricks workspaces, managing integrations with a government health data lake, and streamlining user onboarding and access provisioning. The work spans environment configuration, security setup, catalog management, and process documentation, and suits a seasoned engineer with deep hands-on experience in cloud platforms and enterprise-scale data infrastructure.
Senior level · 12+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 11 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,850 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 780–2,750
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The 12+ years requirement is stated at the role level across 'cloud tools, Databricks, Data Lake integrations, and workspace provisioning' — treated as the overall experience floor rather than per-technology years.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or commensurate experience', so no hard degree gate applies.
The clearance field is None: the posting requires only the ability to obtain a Public Trust suitability determination, which is not a security clearance.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role centers on designing and building cloud data infrastructure (pipelines, catalogs, lake integrations, provisioning automation), which sits between 15-1243 Database Architects and 15-1252 Software Developers. 15-1243 was chosen because data architecture, catalog design, and lake integration are the primary deliverables; 15-1252 is the runner-up given the automation/scripting and workspace-engineering work.
All skills beyond Databricks, Data Lake integrations, and workspace provisioning appear exclusively under the 'Preferred Skills and Experience' heading and are marked accordingly.
'Cloud workspace provisioning' is retained as a required skill because the JD's required section explicitly gates on it as a core competency alongside Databricks and Data Lake integrations — though it names no single tool, the capability itself is a hard gate.
Terraform appears in both the preferred section (as a provisioning tool) and in the preferred automation list alongside ARM and Bicep; ARM and Bicep are captured as alternatives since the JD treats them interchangeably for the same provisioning task.
PowerShell and Python are listed together as preferred automation scripting options; emitted as separate preferred skills given they are distinct technologies both used in the stack.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): cloud workspace provisioning.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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