Data Engineer - ITS4
State of Minnesota · St. Paul, MN
$37.72–$62.21/hrfrom the description
Jul 20, 2026
St. Paul, MN
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A two-year limited position embedded within Minnesota's public health IT team, focused on building and maintaining AWS-based data pipelines and ETL workflows. Day-to-day work involves automating data movement across services such as S3, Glue, and Lambda, writing transformations in Python or R, and working with both relational and data lake storage. Best suited to experienced data engineers comfortable with PySpark, version control, and cloud infrastructure in a production environment.
Mid level · 4+ years · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI · Temporary
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 60 people in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 35–110
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $136,957 (middle half $115,209–$161,832). 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 (11)
This is a time-limited (temporary) position anticipated to last up to two (2) years, with full state fringe benefits.
The role is hybrid/telework-eligible for applicants residing in Minnesota or within 50 miles of St. Paul in a bordering state — not fully remote.
The 4-year minimum experience requirement can be partially offset by education: a bachelor's degree substitutes for 1 year, a master's for 18 months, and an associate's for 6 months.
AWS RDS is listed alongside Amazon Redshift and AWS data lake as interchangeable relational storage options; all three are captured under one required skill with alternatives.
Python and R are listed as interchangeable options for data transformation; Python is named first and R is captured as an alternative.
An AWS Certification (Cloud Practitioner, Data Engineer, or Solutions Architect) is listed under Preferred Qualifications; no specific cert is hard-gated.
NoSQL databases and vector stores are listed together under Preferred Qualifications to support ML/AI pipelines; captured as a single preferred skill with alternatives.
The role is classified as 'Information Technology Specialist 4' in Minnesota state government job classification, which maps to a mid-level individual contributor band despite the 4-year minimum — seniority assessed as Mid.
SOC code 15-1243 (Database Architects) was chosen given the primary focus on designing and maintaining data pipelines, ETL, and data lake architecture; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is a plausible alternative given the Python/PySpark coding emphasis.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AWS IAM Identity Center.
Posting is for a temporary engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.