ICF’s Technology and Products team is seeking a 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, and 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.

About On-Call Employment with ICF

Given the seasonal and project-specific nature of this work, ICF often hires professionals as “On-Call” employees. On-Call employees are scheduled for work hours as they become available. ICF usually schedules work hours a few weeks ahead of time, and each on-call employee is free to accept or refuse the hours assigned to them in a given week. On-Call employees may work concurrent projects outside their ICF assignment as long as the outside work does not create a conflict of interest.

Key Responsibilities

Platform, data, and operations

• Translate scientific, regulatory, and analytical needs into clear technical requirements in partnership with biologists, data scientists, agency staff, client stakeholders, and senior technical team members.

• Contribute to the design, build, and support of a cloud-hosted relational database platform for acoustic-telemetry fish-tracking data.

• Build and maintain relational data models, ingestion workflows, ETL/ELT pipelines, validation logic, and data quality controls for high-volume telemetry detection data.

• Develop reporting views, aggregations, exports, APIs, and structured access patterns that support downstream modeling, analysis, and non-SQL users.

• Support platform performance, security, access controls, monitoring, backups, retention, documentation, and production operations during go-live and ongoing hosting.

• Help support a natural-language query interface by contributing to schema grounding, result validation, access safeguards, and accuracy guardrails.

Basic 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.

Preferred Skills / Experience

• 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.

Bot and Third-Party Applications

Please note that this application must be submitted directly by the applicant for consideration. Failure to do so may result in the application being excluded for consideration. Applicants needing an accommodation for disability or religious purposes in connection with the application process should contact [email protected] for assistance.

Working at ICF

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Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$98,614.00 - $167,644.00

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