[Hiring] On-call Software Engineer, Cloud Data Platform @ICF

Role Description

ICF’s Technology and Products team is seeking an On-call Software Engineer, Cloud Data Platform to help build, enhance, and support a cloud-hosted relational database platform for acoustic-telemetry fish-tracking research in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. This role will focus on the core engineering work needed to turn post-processed fish detection data into reliable, usable data products, including:

• Ingestion pipelines
• Relational data models
• Validation logic
• Reporting views
• Exports
• APIs
• Production support

You will work alongside fish biologists, data scientists, senior engineers, and a state agency client to move the platform from design through go-live and into production support. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will contribute to platform design, implementation, and operations with guidance from senior technical leads. This is a remote, on-call role that provides flexibility to work from 0 to 40 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on experience with relational database systems such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Azure SQL, or similar platforms.
• Hands-on experience supporting or contributing to cloud-hosted data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational data modeling, data ingestion pipelines, ETL/ELT, and data quality validation.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language such as Python, TypeScript/Node, C#, or Java.
• Experience building or maintaining APIs, export capabilities, or reporting views that make structured data available to technical and non-technical users.
• Ability to work independently with guidance, collaborate on a remote team, and communicate clearly with non-engineering collaborators, including scientists, analysts, and client stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience working with environmental, scientific, telemetry, sensor, time-series, or geospatial datasets; familiarity with acoustic telemetry or fisheries data is a plus.
• Exposure to large language models, natural-language interfaces, or tools that make structured data easier for non-technical users to access.
• Familiarity with public-sector clients or working under state or federal contracts.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, monitoring, or operational support tooling.
• Experience supporting multidisciplinary teams that include biologists, researchers, quantitative modelers, analysts, data scientists, or subject matter experts.

Benefits

• Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process.
• Pay range for this position based on full-time employment is: $98,614.00 - $167,644.00.