Job Requirements
Pentagon, DC
Secret Polygraph not specified
Career Level not specified
$160,000 - $185,000
Job Description
Senior Data Engineer
Role Overview
This position supports a large-scale enterprise data modernization effort focused on improving the reliability, structure, and usability of mission‑critical data. The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining scalable data pipelines, enforcing data quality, and implementing transformation logic that enables trusted analytics and reporting across the organization.
This role is execution-focused and works closely with analytics, platform, and domain stakeholders to ensure data is production-ready, performant, and aligned to target architectures.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and ingestion workflows
Implement transformation logic, mappings, and business rules across raw, curated, and analytics-ready layers
Enforce data quality, validation, lineage, and consistency across the data lifecycle
Support modernization initiatives aligned with current-state frameworks and future-state architectures
Optimize database structures, queries, and access patterns for performance and scalability
Prepare curated datasets to support downstream analytics, dashboards, and reporting tools
Apply financial and planning domain context where required to ensure transformations preserve accuracy and compliance
Collaborate closely with analytics, platform, and architecture teams to operationalize data solutions
Required Skills & Experience
Proven experience building ETL processes and enterprise-scale data pipelines
Intermediate proficiency in Python for data processing and pipeline development
Strong SQL skills for data analysis, transformation, and performance tuning
Experience working with modern data platforms; Databricks preferred
Familiarity with financial, budget, or planning data domains is a strong plus
Experience supporting cloud-native data architectures; containerized services a plus
Role Overview
This position supports a large-scale enterprise data modernization effort focused on improving the reliability, structure, and usability of mission‑critical data. The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for building and maintaining scalable data pipelines, enforcing data quality, and implementing transformation logic that enables trusted analytics and reporting across the organization.
This role is execution-focused and works closely with analytics, platform, and domain stakeholders to ensure data is production-ready, performant, and aligned to target architectures.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and ingestion workflows
Implement transformation logic, mappings, and business rules across raw, curated, and analytics-ready layers
Enforce data quality, validation, lineage, and consistency across the data lifecycle
Support modernization initiatives aligned with current-state frameworks and future-state architectures
Optimize database structures, queries, and access patterns for performance and scalability
Prepare curated datasets to support downstream analytics, dashboards, and reporting tools
Apply financial and planning domain context where required to ensure transformations preserve accuracy and compliance
Collaborate closely with analytics, platform, and architecture teams to operationalize data solutions
Required Skills & Experience
Proven experience building ETL processes and enterprise-scale data pipelines
Intermediate proficiency in Python for data processing and pipeline development
Strong SQL skills for data analysis, transformation, and performance tuning
Experience working with modern data platforms; Databricks preferred
Familiarity with financial, budget, or planning data domains is a strong plus
Experience supporting cloud-native data architectures; containerized services a plus
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We offer roles across all three clearance levels: Confidential, Secret and Top Secret. With a Top Secret Facilities clearance, a proven subcontractor track record and a deep understanding of agencies across Defense, Intelligence, Homeland, Justice and Federal Civilian Sectors, Kforce brings more than 20 years of experience to supporting critical missions at federal, state and local levels.
