Data Engineer

Echelon Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Echelon Services, LLC is seeking a Data Engineer to help deliver enterprise Zero Trust capabilities. You will work with mission teams to onboard applications, define data flows, and implement policy-based access workflows.

The role involves building scalable data pipelines and maintaining governance artifacts in a secure, compliant environment. The candidate will collaborate with application and platform teams, ensure environment readiness, and support data management requirements across

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of data engineering, pipeline, or analytics engineering experience with end-to-end build depth.
• DoD 8140 IAT Level II baseline certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+ CE).
• Proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with workflow orchestration and infrastructure as code.
• Experience working with mission teams to capture requirements and resolve integration issues.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust concepts and DoD/NIST guidance for onboarding and policy-based access.

Responsibilities

• Onboard mission applications to enterprise Zero Trust services and document integration patterns.
• Act as technical liaison for ZT integration across application and platform teams.
• Develop data-centric onboarding artifacts, including data flows and metadata standards.
• Design, build, and operate data pipelines across heterogeneous sources with orchestrated scheduling.
• Create and maintain ZT use cases and formal onboarding playbooks.
• Coordinate with Agency counterparts to align data definitions and governance.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Workflow orchestration

Infrastructure as code

Observability tooling

Requirements capture

Zero Trust concepts

DoD/IC engagement

Education

BS in CIS/CS

MS in Business Analytics (preferred)

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Job Details: Job Location: DC 1 - Washington, DC 20301, Position Type: Full Time, Education Level: 4 Year Degree, Salary Range: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00 Salary/year, Job Category: Information Technology, Position Title: Data Engineer

Location: Reston, VA

Position Summary: Supports enterprise Zero Trust service delivery to consuming mission partners, with primary focus on onboarding mission applications to enterprise ZT services, working directly with application teams and developing the ZT use cases and process workflows that make onboarding repeatable. Secondary focus includes developing solutions for the ZT Program to support data governance processes and data management requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Application Onboarding & ZT Integration:

• Support onboarding of mission applications to enterprise Zero Trust services, assessing each application’s integration path against approved enforcement patterns (application-integrated and service-fronting) and capturing technical prerequisites.
• Work directly with mission application and platform teams as the technical liaison for ZT integration — requirements capture, dependency identification, environment readiness, and issue resolution through validation.
• Support data-centric enablement for onboarding applications: application data flows, alignment to enterprise tagging and metadata standards, and attribute readiness for policy-based access decisions.
• Trace onboarding applications and candidate solutions to the program ZT capability model; identify gaps and onboarding blockers early and route them for adjudication.

Use Case & Process Development:

• Develop and document ZT use cases with application teams, capturing the access scenarios, data flows, and enforcement outcomes each onboarding must satisfy.
• Develop and maintain the onboarding process workflows — intake through validation, conformance evidence, and turnover — converting first-time integrations into repeatable playbooks.
• Maintain onboarding artifacts and records consistent with program delivery workflows and readiness processes.

Data Engineering & Reporting Pipelines:

• Design, build, and operate data collection and ingestion pipelines across heterogeneous sources (structured records, time series, APIs, unstructured text) with scheduled, rate-aware orchestration.
• Build and maintain layered data stores supporting delivery analytics and reporting — staged raw-to-curated patterns with immutable retention of source data and provenance-preserving normalization that retains raw values alongside normalized ones.
• Provision and maintain supporting infrastructure as code in on-premises and cloud-independent environments consistent with classified operating constraints.
• Instrument pipelines with dashboards, alerting, and data-quality monitoring; maintain reproducible lineage from source to report; deliver analysis-ready datasets to program reporting and visualization tools.

Coordination & Governance:

• Coordinate integration patterns, data definitions, and onboarding artifacts with Agency counterparts to prevent divergent handling of the same underlying activity.
• Handle application, delivery, and pipeline data consistent with Agency information-handling policy and classification requirements.
• Adhere to PWS/SOW scope boundaries and flag onboarding or data requests that fall outside implementation scope for adjudication.

Qualifications: Requirements/Qualifications:

• Education: BS degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent experience. MS in Business Analytics or related field preferred.
• 3+ years of data engineering, pipeline, or analytics engineering experience, including demonstrable end-to-end build depth (collection through storage, orchestration, and reporting); an advanced analytics degree may substitute for a portion of the experience requirement.
• DoD 8140 IAT Level II baseline certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+ CE), current at start.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL; hands‑on experience with workflow orchestration, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with application or mission teams — capturing requirements, resolving integration issues, and documenting processes others can execute.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust concepts and reference guidance (e.g., NIST SP 800-207, DoD Zero Trust framework) sufficient to support application onboarding and policy-based access integration.
• Experience supporting IC/DoD customers and engaging with senior Government personnel.

Echelon Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.