Data Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & Analytics (Secret)

Eliassen Group; Norfolk (VA); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Data Engineer in Norfolk, VA to design, build, integrate, and sustain secure enterprise data solutions for analytics and decision support. The role involves scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, and collaboration across BI, cybersecurity, and IT teams in an Agile environment.

The ideal candidate will work on cloud and on-premises platforms, implement data governance, and support modernization initiatives with a focus on reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with SQL and Python for extraction, transformation, validation, automation, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Build and optimize data models, schemas, tables, views, and curated datasets for analytics and reporting.
• Develop data-processing solutions using SQL and Python with reusable patterns and documented release practices.
• Integrate cloud and on-premises data platforms to support secure data movement across hybrid environments.
• Implement automated data-quality checks, reconciliation controls, monitoring, alerting, and exception handling.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and data discrepancies; perform root-cause analysis and preventive actions.
• Partner with analysts and stakeholders to define requirements, mappings, and acceptance criteria.
• Apply data governance, security, privacy, and auditability requirements with cybersecurity teams.
• Support platform upgrades, migrations, and performance tuning with minimal disruption.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, data dictionaries, and troubleshooting guides.

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

Cloud & on-prem

PowerShell

Ansible

Azure

CI/CD

Data governance

Security/compliance

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Power BI

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Data Engineer in Norfolk, VA to design, build, integrate, and sustain secure enterprise data solutions for analytics and decision support. The role involves scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, and collaboration across BI, cybersecurity, and IT teams in an Agile environment.

The ideal candidate will work on cloud and on-premises platforms, implement data governance, and support modernization initiatives with a focus on reliability and performance.