Senior Cloud Data Engineer (Remote)
GovCIO · Montgomery, AL
$195,000–$225,000from the description
Jul 2, 2026
Montgomery, AL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role supporting a federal data modernization program, focused on designing, provisioning, and automating cloud-based data workspaces — primarily within Databricks and Azure — integrated with a large government health data lake. Day-to-day work spans workspace configuration, access control setup, migration from on-premises systems, provisioning automation, and cross-functional team coordination. Best suited to a seasoned cloud data engineer with deep Databricks and data lake experience.
Senior level · 12+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 1,150–2,850
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 (7)
The Bachelor's degree requirement is waived by 'or commensurate experience', so the degree requirement is set to None.
The clearance gate is a Public Trust suitability determination (ability to obtain), not a formal US security clearance level — the clearance requirement is set to None accordingly.
All technical skills appear exclusively under 'Preferred Skills and Experience', making every named technology preferred rather than a hard gate. The only hard gates in the Required section are the years of experience and general analytical/communication skills, which name no specific technology.
Databricks is marked required because it is central to the role's core responsibilities (workspace administration, catalog creation, VHA Data Lake integrations) as described throughout the responsibilities section, even though the explicit skills list places it under Preferred — this is a judgement call given the role is titled 'Cloud Data Engineer' with Databricks as the primary platform.
SOC code 15-1243 (Database Architects) is chosen over 15-1252 (Software Developers) because the primary day-to-day work is designing and provisioning data lake architectures, Databricks workspaces, and governed data access — data architecture and pipeline work — rather than general application software development. The runner-up 15-1252 reflects the meaningful automation/scripting and infrastructure-as-code component of the role.
The role is fully remote with no metro inferred, per caller instruction.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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