Data Scientist

🏛️ About GovWell

We the people (and the taxpayers) deserve good government - but today’s public sector software is stuck in the past. GovWell is building the AI-powered platform transforming how governments serve communities.

GovWell replaces legacy software for municipalities and counties, empowering public servants to automate paperwork and streamline services for residents. With GovWell’s AI-powered workflow engine, customers simplify complex processes such as permitting, licensing and customer service, reducing processing times by up to 90%.

Founded in 2023, GovWell powers daily workflows for municipalities and counties in 27 states serving millions of residents. GovWell has raised $9.5 million in funding from Work-Bench and Bienville Capital. Read about our founding story in TechCrunch.

🌟 Why Join GovWell?

💥 Drive Real-World Impact

At GovWell, your work won’t just live in notebooks and dashboards—it will directly shape how government agencies serve their communities. Every data pipeline you build and every migration you execute makes a meaningful difference: enabling faster permit approvals, cleaner datasets, and better service for residents across the country.

⚙️ Make Complex Transitions Simple

Government agencies are moving from decades-old legacy systems. Your job is to help make that leap seamless. By leading data migrations, you’ll empower governments to get operational on GovWell’s platform quickly—with accurate, trustworthy data that becomes the foundation for better decisions and modern services.

🤝 Solve Human Problems with Data

This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, analytics, and customer experience. You’ll collaborate directly with government partners, understand their unique data landscapes, and turn messy exports into clean, actionable records. The work is technical, yes—but deeply human in its outcomes.

👥 Meet the Data Product & Engineering Team

Data

• Amy Wang, Founding Data Engineer, is the principal owner of data engineering and data migrations.
• Portia Wilson, Founding Data Scientist, works on data analysis and data migrations.
  
  

Engineering

• Richard Le owns AI product engineering.
• Eric Gratta is the owner of our frontend repository.
• Nick Vollmar is the owner of everything DevOps and infrastructure.
  
  

Product & Design

• Peter Borges, Founding Product Designer, works on design implementation and design systems.
  
  

🧮 What You'll Work On

• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to design and build a self-service data import agent that allows non-technical government staff to map, validate, and upload their own data, reducing friction and speeding up time-to-value.
• Lead high-impact customer data migrations, ensuring smooth, accurate transitions from legacy systems into GovWell’s modern platform.
• Build scalable data onboarding workflows, using tools like Airflow and SQL to automate transformation, validation, and loading of customer data.
• Run discovery sessions with customers to understand their data models, map schemas, and uncover edge cases that impact migration success.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Deployment Strategists, Product, and Engineering—to solve complex data challenges and improve customer onboarding velocity.
• Develop internal tools and templates to accelerate and standardize data migration processes as GovWell scales.
• Contribute to post-migration analytics by ensuring clean, structured data sets are available for downstream reporting and decision-making.
• Support the growth of the data function by mentoring future analysts and helping shape best practices across the team.
  
  

🧠 Who You Are

Technical Expertise

• 3 years working in data science, analytics, or data engineering—ideally in a SaaS or B2B environment.
• Proficient in SQL and Python; comfortable working with large, messy datasets.
• Experience designing or executing complex ETL/ELT processes, ideally with tools like Airflow.
• Strong grasp of data validation, transformation, and quality assurance best practices.
• Able to turn ambiguous data challenges into clear, repeatable workflows.
  
  

Collaborative & Outcome-Focused

• Comfortable interfacing directly with customers to understand their data and guide them through migration.
• Excellent communicator—able to translate technical findings into plain language and partner effectively across functions.
• Detail-oriented and quality-driven: you know that when it comes to data, precision matters.
• Motivated by outcomes, not just models—you're energized by the role data plays in solving real problems.
  
  

🧰 Tech Stack

• Airflow – for managing data migration pipelines
• Hex - for QAing data workflows
• PostgreSQL – our core database
• SQL Python – your daily tools
• RedwoodJS, GraphQL, TypeScript, AWS – the broader software engineering environment you’ll interact with
  
  

💸 Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary meaningful equity
• Up to 100% of medical/dental/vision premiums covered (you partner)
• Unlimited/flexible PTO
• 401(k) with company match
  
  

GovWell is an Equal Opportunity Employer, meaning that we do not discriminate based upon race, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, or any other protected class.

Compensation Range: $95K - $110K