AWS/ETL Engineer

📋 Job Overview

CADRE is seeking an AWS / ETL Engineer to support an initiative that will evaluate and build out an end-to-end communication workflow delivering high-volume outbound email communications. The role spans two related work streams: a solution assessment/architecture analysis phase to validate that the proposed integration pattern can reliably scale, and a development phase to build, test, and deploy the resulting Salesforce and AWS components into production. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role requiring strong AWS integration skills, working knowledge of Salesforce-based integration patterns, and the ability to produce clear architectural and technical documentation for both technical and business stakeholders.

🏢 About CADRE

Keeping people satisfied is no small undertaking. At CADRE, our commitment to supporting employees extends further than conventional benefits. While we offer competitive industry-standard packages, our focus goes beyond transactional care. This is why we developed the CADRE Cares Program which encompasses a range of benefits and initiatives aimed at enhancing the well-being and satisfaction of our employees.

🎯 The Role

The AWS/ETL Engineer (Salesforce) will be responsible for evaluating and building out an end-to-end communication workflow for high-volume outbound email communications. This role involves solution assessment, architecture analysis, development, testing, and deployment of Salesforce and AWS components into production.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate S-Docs' ability to generate accurate, consistent HTML/PDF templates, and identify the data dependencies, automation triggers, and governance controls needed to ensure template quality at scale.
• Analyze Salesforce's integration pathways to identify the most scalable pattern for transmitting large-volume email payloads to AWS, considering throughput, API limits, latency, and fault-tolerance requirements.
• Examine AWS Lambda's processing capacity, queueing strategies, and monitoring capabilities to confirm the integration layer can support transformation, routing, and secure delivery to VA Notify under peak loads.
• Review VA Notify's API capabilities and status-reporting mechanisms.
• Validate the overall solution against operational expectations around scalability, security controls, auditability, observability, and alignment with enterprise compliance requirements.
• Document findings, architectural decisions, and identified risks/issues to ensure traceability and support future governance reviews.
• Summarize the analysis in formal solution documentation — data flows, sequence diagrams, considerations, and decision logs — to ensure alignment among technical teams, business stakeholders, and support groups.
• Build and refine data models, integration components, error-handling logic, and orchestration needed to support end-to-end processing across Salesforce, AWS, and VA Notify.
• Develop capabilities including S-Docs template automation, email request creation, outbound integration callouts, inbound status update processing, and supporting dashboards and reports.
• Implement AWS components such as API Gateway endpoints, Lambda functions, SQS queueing, dead-letter queues (DLQs), logging/monitoring pipelines, and services for writing delivery.
• Execute unit testing, integration testing, full end-to-end testing, and high-volume load validation.
• Deploy changes through CI/CD pipelines across development, QA, UAT, and production environments, ensuring monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness.
• Finalize technical documentation, operational runbooks, and support procedures, and conduct handover and training for system administrators and support teams.

📌 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.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 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.

🎁 Benefits

CADRE offers competitive industry-standard packages. Our commitment to supporting employees extends further than conventional benefits through the CADRE Cares Program, which encompasses a range of benefits and initiatives aimed at enhancing the well-being and satisfaction of our employees.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

U.S. Citizenship required per VA contract requirements. Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.