Data Engineer 894

Global Service Resources invites a remote Data Engineer contractor to join a specialized effort supporting LA County, focusing on moving legacy data into modern target systems. The role emphasizes extraction, mapping, transformation, validation, and loading, with cross-agency coordination and knowledge transfer as core duties. This is a 12-month contract with a strong possibility of extension or direct hire, offering a 40-hour work week at an hourly rate of $55 to $60.

Job Details

• Location: Remote
• Hourly rate: USD 55 - 60
• Job Type: Contract
• Minimum experience: 3 years
• Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, data science, engineering, or a closely related field

Responsibilities

• Under the guidance of an IT Manager or agency staff, perform data extraction, analysis, mapping, and conversion activities. This includes profiling, cleansing, transforming, validating, and loading data from multiple legacy systems into the target solution while preserving data integrity and reconciliation.
• Help define data requirements, support cross‑agency coordination, and ensure converted data meets the needs of business users.
• Support coordination across organizational units, assist with planning and communication of data conversion activities, and contribute to issue identification and effective information flow among stakeholders.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer or training to ensure staff understand and can work with the converted data.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge and hands-on experience with legacy systems, flat files, mainframe‑extracted data, and structured or unstructured datasets.
• Experience supporting data mapping and crosswalk analysis across the organization and vendors, with the ability to interpret legacy formats and data dictionaries.
• Understanding of data conversion requirements such as retention needs, cutover sequencing, and identifying required data elements; familiarity with ETL processes, reconciliation, encrypted file validation, SFTP structures, and source‑to‑target relationships; ability to document extraction logic and validation rules; effective cross‑organization coordination; and the ability to resolve data inconsistencies and quality issues; plus knowledge of government data retention.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience supporting field mapping, crosswalk analysis, and data validation during conversion efforts, including troubleshooting data quality issues such as blob-size anomalies and variable-length errors.
• Three (3) years of experience participating in organizational coordination activities, including file reviews and data dictionary prioritization, and working with encrypted test files and regulated data.
• Three (3) years of experience working with legacy and relational data technologies such as mainframe environments, DB2, FOCUS, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, data science, engineering, or a closely related field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year‑for‑year basis.

Technologies

• DB2
• FOCUS
• Oracle
• Microsoft SQL Server
• SFTP
• Mainframe

Benefits

• Health insurance at a discounted rate
• Five paid sick days after 90 days of employment

E‑Verify

All employees must comply with E‑Verify, an online system administered by the Department of Homeland Security in partnership with the Social Security Administration. The candidate must pass the E‑Verify check as part of employment eligibility verification.

Company Overview

Global Service Resources is a national recruiting firm serving IT and healthcare professionals across the continental United States. We specialize in government and private short‑term, per diem, and long‑term contracts, with a base in Burbank, California. We pride ourselves on presenting competitive contract opportunities and strive to provide timely submissions to candidates for upcoming roles.