Data Engineer
Washington, DC
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Join us to drive positive, lasting change that moves missions and the government forward!
Key Responsibilities
Core Data & AI Pipeline Development
- Build, maintain, and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines to support analytics and AI workloads.
- Ingest structured, semi structured, and unstructured datasets from APIs, databases, SaaS systems, streaming feeds, and file based sources.
- Transform, clean, enrich, and standardize data using Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataproc (Spark), BigQuery SQL, and Python.
- Deliver high quality curated datasets into BigQuery for analytics, reporting, and machine learning training.
- Build and maintain ML ready feature pipelines supporting Data Scientists and ML Engineers.
Data Quality, Governance & Operations
- Implement data quality checks, schema validation, and automated testing within pipelines.
- Monitor pipeline health and apply observability best practices using Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging.
- Apply governance, security, and compliance standards including IAM roles, encryption, data masking, and auditing.
- Enforce schema evolution policies, metadata management, and lineage tracking using Dataplex/Data Catalog.
- Maintain documentation for datasets, transformations, pipeline logic, and operational procedures.
Engineering & Collaboration
- Write efficient, maintainable Python, SQL, Beam, and Spark code.
- Manage ingestion flows using Pub/Sub, GCS, APIs, Datastream, and database connectors.
- Optimize BigQuery tables, partitions, clustering, materialized views, and query performance.
- Implement and maintain DAGs with Cloud Composer (Airflow).
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, latency issues, and data quality gaps.
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and agile sprint ceremonies.
- Collaborate with Data Architects, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and business stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CI/CD deployment pipelines.
Required Qualifications
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related technical field.
- 3–6+ years of hands on experience in data engineering or a similar technical field.
- Minimum three years of experience leading technical teams to achieve outcomes.
- Experience developing and implementing technical standards for cloud and on prem environments.
- Proven experience building production data pipelines on cloud platforms, preferably GCP.
- Hands on experience with BigQuery, GCS, Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataproc (Spark), and Pub/Sub.
- Experience preparing ML ready datasets for model training.
- Strong background in SQL, Python, distributed data processing, and data modeling.
- Experience with governance, security, and compliance frameworks including IAM, encryption, data masking, and auditing.
- Familiarity with the following tool categories (VAEC Operational Tools):
- Google Cloud Security tools
- Google Cloud Monitoring & Logging tools
- Google Cloud Networking
- Google Storage services
Preferred Experience
- Master’s degree in a technical field.
- Previous experience in Federal Government environments.
- Knowledge of regulated environments such as FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, NIST 800 53, and CIS benchmarks.
- Security certifications such as CISSP or CCSP.
- Experience with Vertex AI workflows or comparable ML platforms.
- Familiarity with Dataplex, data governance frameworks, and metadata management.
- Experience with Apache Kafka or other streaming technologies.
- Experience with Datastream for change data capture (CDC).
- Knowledge of regulated industries such as public sector, healthcare, or finance.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to convey complex data concepts clearly.
- Experience with BI tools such as Looker or Looker Studio.
- Experience with third party tools such as Armis, BigFix, CrowdStrike, Tenable Nessus, Turbot, ServiceNow, Dynatrace, Splunk, and more.
- Hands on experience with DevOps tools and methodologies, including Ansible, GitHub, Jira, Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud migration tools.
- Knowledge in ML enablement, feature stores, and ML pipeline patterns.
- Experience with data quality and testing frameworks such as Great Expectations or dbt tests.
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The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia is:
$103,200 - $196,400 USD
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