AWS/ETL Engineer (Salesforce)
$95,000–$100,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Evaluate S-Docs template generation and Salesforce integration pathways to identify scalable patterns for high-volume outbound email delivery to AWS and VA Notify. Examine Lambda capacity, queueing strategies, and API capabilities to confirm the solution supports transformation, routing, and secure delivery under peak loads. Build and refine data models, error-handling logic, and orchestration components while developing automation capabilities for email requests, status updates, and dashboards. Implement AWS services including API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, and monitoring pipelines; execute unit, integration, and high-volume load testing. Deploy changes through CI/CD pipelines across development, QA, UAT, and production environments, ensuring operational readiness. Document findings, architectural decisions, and risks in formal solution documentation, data flows, and runbooks for stakeholder alignment and future governance reviews.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience in data engineering, systems integration, ETL development, and/or cloud infrastructure.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, SQS (including DLQ patterns), S3, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with Salesforce integration patterns, including outbound/inbound callouts, Apex, Flow automation, and document-generation tools such as S-Docs (or comparable tools, e.g., Conga, Nintex Drawloop).
- Working knowledge of, or ability to quickly ramp up on, VA Notify (or comparable notification/delivery-status APIs) for status, bounce, and failure reporting.
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting/programming language commonly used for integration and data processing (e.g., Python, Apex).
- Demonstrated experience with the full test lifecycle — unit, integration, end-to-end, and high-volume load/performance testing — and with CI/CD deployment across multiple environments (dev, QA, UAT, production).
- Experience working on federal government contracts, with familiarity with VA or other federal agency IT environments, security requirements, and compliance frameworks (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).
- Strong ability to produce clear architectural documentation (data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, decision logs) and to communicate findings to both technical and business stakeholders.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance; U.S. Citizenship required per VA contract requirements.
Desired Qualifications
- Salesforce certification (e.g., Platform Developer I/II, Salesforce Administrator, or Integration Architect) and/or AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate).
- Direct hands-on experience with S-Docs template design/automation and with VA Notify or another government notification-delivery API.
- Experience with VA-specific systems or programs (e.g., VistA, MASS, VBMS, or other VA data platforms) is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation, and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline).
- Experience with observability/monitoring tooling for distributed, queue-based systems (e.g., CloudWatch dashboards/alarms, X-Ray, Splunk).
- Prior experience supporting a VA ATO process, governance review, or working directly with VA OIT.
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