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Data Engineer

Easy Dynamics Corporation
Posted 20 days ago, valid for 13 days
Location

McLean, VA, US

Salary

$150,000 - $180,000 per year

Contract type

Full Time

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  • The Data Engineer role involves building and maintaining data pipelines, storage systems, and processing workflows for reporting and analytics.
  • Candidates must have at least 2 years of IT technical experience, particularly in data pipeline development and SQL.
  • The position requires designing ETL/ELT processes and collaborating with teams to define data requirements and quality expectations.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with cloud data warehouses are essential, along with the ability to obtain a U.S. Government Public Trust or Security Clearance.
  • The salary for this position ranges from $150,000 to $180,000, depending on experience and qualifications.

About the role

The Data Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining the data pipelines, storage systems, and processing workflows that power reporting, analytics, and downstream applications across company projects. This role works with Product Management and Engineering to define data requirements and pipeline design, ensuring data solutions are reliable, scalable, and available for both batch and real-time use cases, while helping shape the future data architecture to support increased volume and new use cases.


What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain data pipelines (ETL/ELT) that extract, transform, and load data from source systems into target stores.
  • Partner with Product Management and downstream teams to define data requirements and data quality expectations.
  • Work with Engineering to define pipeline architecture for batch and real-time data processing.
  • Write and optimize SQL queries and scripts (Python or similar) to support data transformation and validation.
  • Monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot failures, and ensure data availability and reliability.
  • Support integration of data sources into cloud data warehouses or data lakes.
  • Help define future data architecture to support increased volume, new data sources, and analytics use cases.
  • Document data flows, schemas, and pipeline logic for team and stakeholder reference.

Qualifications

  • Associate's degree, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 2+ years of IT technical experience, including exposure to data pipeline development, SQL, or scripting.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Public Trust or Security Clearance.
  • Experience with data pipeline orchestration tools such as Airflow, dbt, or similar.
  • Familiarity with distributed data processing frameworks, such as Spark or Kafka.
  • Experience with cloud data warehouses or lakes, such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or S3-based architectures.
  • Proficiency in Python for data engineering tasks.
  • Understanding of data modeling and data quality best practices.


Salary Range: $150,000–$180,000 based on experience and qualifications


Easy Dynamics is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for positions without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal state or local laws.




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