Data Engineer — Agile BI & Large-Scale Pipelines

CGS Federal; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dep

Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dep

Paid Time Off

Job summary

CGS is seeking a Data Engineer to support a growing Data Analytics and BI platform for federal customers. You will design and build data pipelines, work within an Agile team, and implement reliable data extraction and processing with modern tooling.

The role emphasizes collaboration across cross-functional teams, API usage, and continuous automation. Strong SQL, Python, and ETL capabilities are required, along with a willingness to learn and adapt in a government-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years IT experience including 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 PostgreSQL and version control in Git.

Responsibilities

• Complete development efforts across data pipeline to store, manage, store, and provision to data consumers.
• Be an active and collaborating member of an Agile/Scrum team and follow best practices.
• Write code to ensure the performance and reliability of data extraction and processing.
• Support continuous process automation for data ingest.
• Advocate lean-agile engineering principles including API-first design, simple design, CI, and automated testing.
• Collaborate with program management and engineers to implement and document evolving requirements.

Skills

Data pipelines

Python

SQL

ETL processes

Agile/Scrum

Git

Tableau/PowerBI

Tools

PostgreSQL

Git Repositories

Job description

CGS is seeking a Data Engineer to support a growing Data Analytics and BI platform for federal customers. You will design and build data pipelines, work within an Agile team, and implement reliable data extraction and processing with modern tooling.

The role emphasizes collaboration across cross-functional teams, API usage, and continuous automation. Strong SQL, Python, and ETL capabilities are required, along with a willingness to learn and adapt in a government-focused environment.