Data Engineer

Square Peg Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation

Annual bonuses

401k matching

Paid training

Health care coverage

Job summary

Square Peg Technologies is seeking an experienced pipeline-centric data engineer to design, implement, and maintain data pipelines for customers. The role emphasizes building automated pipelines across diverse data types and datasets to support analytics and ML initiatives.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years of Python, SQL, and data visualization experience, plus familiarity with AWS RedShift/RDS, and strong collaboration with data science and BI teams.

Qualifications

• Experience building data pipelines for research, reporting or ML.
• Proficient in Python and SQL; able to develop and optimize queries.
• Experience with data visualization/exploration tools.
• Experience building or maintaining ETL processes.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical leaders.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines for customers.
• Develop automated pipelines for multiple data types and datasets.
• Collaborate with data science and BI teams to model data and pipelines.
• Apply best practices and continuous learning to backend systems.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data visualization

ETL

Agile software development

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science / information technology / engineering

Tools

AWS RedShift / RDS

Job description

Job Description Full Job Description

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

The Mission:

At Square Peg, we rely on powerfully insightful data to inform our systems and solutions—and we’re seeking an experienced pipeline-centric data engineer to put it to use. The Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining data pipelines for our customers. The Data Engineer will develop automated pipelines for a variety of data types and datasets.

Basic Qualifications:

Work with data to solve business problems, building and maintaining the infrastructure to answer questions and improve processes

Help streamline our data science workflows, adding value to our product offering and building out our customer lifecycle and retention models

Work closely with the data science and business intelligence teams to develop data models and pipelines for research, reporting, and machine learning

Be an advocate for best practices and continued learning

Work closely with our data science to help build complex algorithms that provide unique insights into our data

Use agile software development processes to iteratively make improvements to our back-end systems

Model front-end and back-end data sources to help draw a more comprehensive picture of user flows throughout our system and enable powerful data analysis

Build data pipelines that clean, transform and aggregate data from disparate sources

Develop models that can be used to make predictions and answer questions for the overall business

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering or equivalent

3+ years of experience with Python, SQL, and data visualization/exploration tools

Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem specifically RedShift and RDS

Communication skills, especially explaining technical concepts to non-technical business leaders

Experience building or maintaining ETL processes

Square Peg Technologies Company Information

Square Peg Technologies is a boutique technology consulting firm that specializes in data solutions using the latest technologies in analytics, data science, data engineering, and data management. Our mission is to develop and integrate cutting-edge technology solutions that inspire our customers to push the fields of science and technology forward. Here at Square Peg, you will not get lost in a crowd. We value each person’s contribution, celebrate wins together, and invest in the personal and professional development of our employees. Along with a strong positive culture that allows employees to thrive and grow, we also offer top-notch benefits including a large amount of vacation, annual bonuses, 401k matching, paid training, and 100% health care coverage. At Square Peg Tech, we aim to be at the forefront of technology and innovation. Our ideal candidate must be forward-leaning and eager to engage with customers, academia, and industry leaders on the future applications of AI/ML, as well as best practices in advanced analytics. With a firm footprint in the Intelligence Community, Square Peg Tech is looking to expand its capabilities into the Department of Defense, NASA, and other prominent government agencies.