Data Engineer: Legacy Systems & AI Pipelines

Groundswell Corporation; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and视觉

Flexible Spending Account

401K Match

Paid Time Off

Tuition reimbursement and professional

Flexible work schedule

On-site gym

Childcare option

Job summary

Groundswell Corporation seeks an experienced Data Engineer to build secure, reliable data capabilities for a mission-focused platform in a federal context. You will design, ingest, validate, and govern data across batch and streaming pipelines, ensuring provenance and access controls while enabling AI-enabled capabilities in controlled environments.

You will collaborate with software, cloud, security, and stakeholder teams to translate mission needs into measurable data products, including

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (CS/CE/Math/Stats) required.
• 5+ years of professional data engineering experience with production pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, R, or other data-engineering languages.
• Experience with SOAP APIs for data interaction.
• Experience implementing data-quality frameworks, monitoring, and alerting.
• Knowledge of data security, access controls, encryption, and governance in regulated environments.
• Experience with APIs (SOAP/REST) and data formats like JSON/XML/CSV/Parquet.
• Ability to document technical decisions and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• U.S. Citizen and ability to obtain Public Trust Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines across sources.
• Onboard legacy data sources by reviewing schemas, mappings, and interfaces.
• Build automated data-quality checks with monitoring and alerts.
• Automate deployments and pipeline operations using SOAP APIs and workflows.
• Troubleshoot failures using logs, metrics, and lineage; communicate root causes and recovery plans.
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, security teams, and stakeholders to deliver data products.

Skills

Python

Java

R

SQL

APIs (SOAP/REST)

Data quality frameworks

Data security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field

Tools

SOAP APIs

Jupyter Notebook

AWS

Job description

Groundswell Corporation seeks an experienced Data Engineer to build secure, reliable data capabilities for a mission-focused platform in a federal context. You will design, ingest, validate, and govern data across batch and streaming pipelines, ensuring provenance and access controls while enabling AI-enabled capabilities in controlled environments.

You will collaborate with software, cloud, security, and stakeholder teams to translate mission needs into measurable data products, including