Data Engineer: Secure, Scalable Data Pipelines for Government

Accrete; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Comprehensive Benefits

401(k) Plan

Growth & Development

Onsite Perks

Team Bonding

Job summary

Accrete is seeking a Data Engineer to work across data engineering, data management, system administration, and mission support. You will ensure data is ingested, organized, transformed, validated, and accessible to users and applications that depend on it.

You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, AI/ML teams, system admins, and government customers to maintain reliable data workflows and address data-related issues.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Counterintelligence or Lifestyle Polygraph is required.
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, data management, or related field.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a technical discipline.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases.
• Experience building or supporting ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration workflows.
• Experience with Python or another scripting language for data processing and automation.
• Experience with structured and unstructured datasets.
• Understanding of data quality, data governance, metadata, and lifecycle management.
• Experience troubleshooting technical and data-related issues.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work independently while collaborating with teams.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and troubleshoot data ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple sources.
• Develop ETL/ELT workflows to move and transform data.
• Develop SQL queries and scripts to extract, transform, validate, and analyze data.
• Support data ingestion through APIs, databases, files, feeds, etc.
• Develop repeatable processes for data onboarding and integration.
• Monitor data pipelines and investigate failures or delays.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve reliability and scalability of data workflows.
• Support administration of data management platforms and tools.
• Configure workflows, schemas, metadata, and permissions.
• Manage data repositories, datasets, and documentation.
• Provide security-conscious data access management.
• Maintain data catalogs, metadata, taxonomies, and data lineage.
• Assist with data lifecycle management, retention, and archiving.

Skills

Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph

Strong SQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

Python

Structured & unstructured data

Data governance

Data lifecycle management

Data troubleshooting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Data Engineering/Info Systems or equivalent

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

SQL Server

Oracle

AWS

Azure

Spark/Databricks

Snowflake

Airflow

Kafka

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Accrete is seeking a Data Engineer to work across data engineering, data management, system administration, and mission support. You will ensure data is ingested, organized, transformed, validated, and accessible to users and applications that depend on it.

You will collaborate with data scientists, software engineers, AI/ML teams, system admins, and government customers to maintain reliable data workflows and address data-related issues.