Title/Role: IN - IDOH Data Scientist 812974

No. of Openings: 1

Start Date: 11/02/2026

End Date: 11/30/2027

No New Submittals After: 10/28/2026

Max Submittals by Vendor:1

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Worksite Address: Local candidates only - 2 N Meridian St, Indianapolis, IN 46204

CAI Contract Manager (CAI Use Only): Karla Lunney

Agency Interview Type: Webcam only

Bill rate: $58.52

Candidate must be paid $43.35 for engagement.

Candidate must meet one of the following qualifications: Master's degree in data science, analytics, informatics, computer science, mathematics, engineering, or related field; - a Bachelor's degree in a related field plus 2+ years of relevant experience; or 4+ years of hands-on experience in a similar data engineering role. Relevant certifications and coursework may substitute for formal education/experience requirements.

Designs, builds, and maintains secure, scalable data solutions across Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse Analytics.

Local candidates only will be considered for this position.

This role supports data integration, pipeline development, data modeling, governance, and documentation while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high‑quality, reliable data products for the agency.

Plays a key role in implementing the agency's data strategy by developing batch and streaming pipelines, optimizing data warehouse workloads, and enforcing data governance standards. The position assists with requirements gathering, solution reviews, and technical support, and works closely with data architects, scientists, analysts, and project managers to translate business needs into technical designs. This role supports operational processes, contributes to policy and procedure improvements, and may provide mentorship or supervision based on agency needs.

Job Duties

·Assists with the data technology strategy, including resolvingstrategic data integration issues, such as data quality and stewardship,real-time,

·Event-based data integration, and crafting a universal vision for data integration

·Provides direction and oversight for the design and implementation of data solutions for integration and synthesis across multiple secure systems

·Assists with the definition, implementation, and continued adherence of new data management policies and design standards for data engineering

·Provides advice, training, and technical support for various projects

·Participates in project activities such as requirements gathering, solution reviews, and explaining technical complexities to non-technical personnel

·Work closely with the solution leads, project managers, data architects, data scientists, and data analysts on solution design, architecture, and implementation

·Assists with extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using various data engineering tools and methods.

·Designs, builds, and maintains batch and streaming data pipelines in Azure Databricks using Py Spark, Spark SQL, and Delta Lake, following a medallion (bronze/silver/gold) lake house architecture

·Develops, loads, and tunes dimensional data models and SQL workloads in Azure Synapse Analytics (dedicated and serverless SQL pools) to support reporting and dashboard needs

·Orchestrates and monitors data workflows using Databricks Workflows/Jobs and Synapse or Azure Data Factory pipelines, including scheduling, alerting, and failure recovery

·Applies data governance and security controls (e.g., Unity Catalog permissions, role-based access, row- and column-level security, data masking) to protect sensitive health data (PHI/PII) in accordance with HIPAA and agency policy

·Assists with documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.

·Assists in operations by conducting systems analysis; recommendingchanges in policies and procedures.

·The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

kills	Required / Desired	Years of Experience required	Candidate has
• Master's degree in data science, analytics, informatics, computer science, mathematics, engineering, or related field; OR....		4 years
•Bachelor's degree in a related field plus 2+ years of relevant experience; or 4+ years of hands-on experience in a similar data engineering role; OR..		4 years
• Relevant certifications and coursework may substitute for formal education/experience requirements		4 years
• Developing with Databricks notebooks in PySpark, Spark SQL, and R, including transformations, joins, aggregations, and window functions		4 years
• ACID transactions, MERGE upserts, schema enforcement/evolution, time travel, and table maintenance (OPTIMIZE, Z-order, VACUUM)		4 years
• Working with medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architecture and incremental ingestion via Auto Loader, Structured Streaming, or Lakeflow/DLT		4 years
Using Unity Catalog for Workspace Catalogs, schemas, permissions, lineage, external locations, and storage credentials		4 years
Right-sizing clusters and SQL warehouses and diagnose partitioning, shuffle, skew, and caching issues via Spark UI		4 years
Scheduling and managing dependencies with ADF Pipelines, Databricks Workflows (Jobs), and using Git folders (Repos) for source control		4 years
Designing MPP warehouse tables, including distribution (hash, round-robin, replicated), columnstore indexes, and partitioning		4 years
Querying Parquet, Delta, and CSV files in ADLS Gen2 using OPENROWSET, external tables, and views		4 years
Building star-schema facts, dimensions, stored procedures, and views, including SCD Type 1 and Type 2		4 years
Developing with COPY INTO, PolyBase, and CETAS, and building parameterized Synapse/ADF pipelines (copy, data flows, triggers)		4 years
Workload management, resource classes, statistics, materialized views, result-set caching, and pool scaling/pausing		4 years
ADLS Gen2 folder/file-format design (Parquet/Delta), Entra ID access control, managed identities, and Key Vault		4 years