Data Engineer

Spectraforce Technologies; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies in McLean, VA (also Boston, MA and Plano, TX) is seeking a Data Engineer for a 12-month hybrid contract. You will work on a Python-based, AWS-native data ingestion platform moving financial data into a 3rd party application.

You will build and maintain pipeline stages across ingest, validation, tokenization, and publishing, with unit and end-to-end testing, and ensure data-protection compliance. Strong Python and AWS skills, Git/CI-CD discipline required.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and AWS (Lambda, ECS, Kinesis, S3).
• Experience building data ingestion pipelines with testing practices.
• Familiarity with data protection standards and secure coding.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain pipeline stages across ingest, validation, tokenization, and publishing.
• Support E2E and system test phases and remediate security findings.
• Collaborate with teams using Git and CI/CD discipline.

Skills

Python

AWS

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Title: Data Engineer

Duration: 12 Months

Location: McLean, VA, Boston, MA and Plano, TX - hybrid 3 days on site

Job Description

work on a Python-based, AWS-native data ingestion platform (CDK infrastructure, Glue/Spark consumers, Lambda/ECS/Flink pipelines) that moves financial data from source systems into a 3rd party application.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain pipeline stages across ingest, validation, tokenization, reformatting, and publishing, backed by rigorous unit and end-to-end testing. Support E2E/system test phases, drive compliance with data-protection standards (HSHD/sensitive-data handling), and remediate security findings and vulnerabilities across the codebase and dependencies. Requires strong proficiency in Python and AWS (Lambda, ECS, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, CDK), plus solid Git/CI-CD discipline.