Data Engineer

Cgsfederal; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Life Insurance

401(k)

Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dep

Job summary

CGS is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Business Intelligence team in Chantilly, VA. This full-time, mid-level role focuses on building and maintaining data pipelines, ETL processes, and data models for federal clients to gain actionable insights.

The position requires US citizenship, ability to obtain Public Trust, and collaboration in an Agile/Scrum environment using Python, SQL, and BI tools.

Qualifications

• US Citizen required.
• Public Trust clearance ability required.
• 7+ years IT experience with large data sets and models.
• Experience building data pipelines from varied sources.
• ETL development and validation experience.
• Data manipulation with Python, R, SQL, SAS.
• Strong knowledge of big data storage tools and technologies.
• Solid understanding of Agile and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and version control (Git).

Responsibilities

• Develop data pipelines to store, manage, and provision to data consumers.
• Actively participate in an Agile/Scrum team and follow Agile best practices.
• Write code to ensure performance and reliability of data extraction and processing.
• Support continuous automation for data ingest.
• Advocate lean-agile engineering principles (API-first design, simple design, CI/CD, version control, automated testing).
• Collaborate with program management and engineers to implement evolving requirements.
• Contribute to a customer-centric, innovative team environment.

Skills

Data pipelines

ETL development

Python

SQL

R

SAS

CI/CD pipelines

Agile/Scrum

API development

Git

Tableau/PowerBI

Linux shell scripting

PostgreSQL

Data modeling

Tools

Git

PostgreSQL

Tableau

PowerBI

Linux

Job description

Data Engineer

Employment Type: Full-Time, Mid-level

Department: Business Intelligence

CGS is seeking a passionate and driven Data Engineer to support a rapidly growing Data Analytics and Business Intelligence platform focused on providing solutions that empower federal customers with the tools and capabilities needed to turn data into actionable insights. The ideal candidate is a critical thinker and perpetual learner; excited to gain exposure and build skillsets across a range of technologies while solving some of our clients’ toughest challenges.

Skills and attributes for success

• Complete development efforts across data pipeline to store, manage, store, and provision to data consumers.
• Active and collaborating member of an Agile/Scrum team and following all Agile/Scrum best practices.
• Write code to ensure performance and reliability of data extraction and processing.
• Support continuous process automation for data ingest.
• Achieve technical excellence by advocating for and adhering to lean-agile engineering principles such as API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing.
• Work with program management and engineers to implement and document complex and evolving requirements.
• Help cultivate an environment that promotes customer service excellence, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork.
• Collaborate with others as part of a cross‑functional team that includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists.

Qualifications

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.
• 7+ years of IT experience including experience in design, management, and solutioning of large, complex data sets and models.
• Experience with developing data pipelines from many sources from structured and unstructured data sets in a variety of formats.
• Proficiency in developing ETL processes and performing test and validation steps.
• Proficiency to manipulate data (Python, R, SQL, SAS).
• Strong knowledge of big data analysis and storage tools and technologies.
• Strong understanding of the agile principles and ability to apply them.
• Strong understanding of the CI/CD pipelines and ability to apply them.
• Experience with relational database, such as PostgreSQL.
• Work comfortably in version control systems, such as Git Repositories.

Ideally, you will also have

• Experience creating and consuming APIs.
• Experience with DHS and knowledge of DHS standards a plus.
• Candidates will be given special consideration for extensive experience with Python.
• Ability to develop visualizations utilizing Tableau or PowerBI.
• Experience in developing Shell scripts on Linux.
• Demonstrated experience translating business and technical requirements into comprehensive data strategies and analytic solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate across all levels of the organization and communicate technical terms to non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, and Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401(k)
• Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
• Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays

Contact Government Services, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.