ETL Data Engineer

Socket.dev; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

OCTO is seeking an ETL Data Engineer for a long-term government contract in Washington, DC. The role focuses on data curation, processing, and transformation using cloud-native Azure tools, building end-to-end pipelines and ensuring governance and security.

You will collaborate with agencies to define requirements, develop scalable ETL processes, and implement both cloud and on-prem connectivity across data systems, leveraging ADF, Synapse, Databricks, and Informatica.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing and developing complex data projects.
• Hands-on with cloud data tools and ETL frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, develop, and support complex enterprise data projects.
• Interface with agencies and stakeholders to define requirements.
• Build and optimize end-to-end ETL pipelines using Azure tools.
• Establish cloud and on-prem connectivity across systems.
• Hands-on with Azure Data Factory, Synapse, MSSQL and data lake storage.
• Develop pipelines to load data from multiple sources into SQL tables.
• Work with data integration tools like Informatica, Synapse, NiFi, Airflow.
• Handle diverse data formats (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Parquet, AVRO).
• Standardize and optimize data workflows following best practices.
• Contribute to data governance, accuracy, security and reliability.
• Automate, monitor, and manage data pipelines and alerts.
• Assess system changes, propose back-ups and rollback procedures.
• Develop new systems and enhancements while preserving standards.
• Create complex queries and reports in database languages.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools and secure data handling.
• Maintain expertise across large, cross-platform environments.

Skills

ETL knowledge

Cloud data pipelines

Azure data services

data governance awareness

data security practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Informatica

Apache NiFi

Apache Airflow

Oracle

SQL Server

DB2

Parquet

AVRO

Job description

ETL Data Engineer-Long-Term Contract (Government) Position

Title: ETL Data Engineer

Worksite Address: Washington, DC

Interviews: Webcam Only

Short Description:

The Enterprise Data team at OCTO requires an ETL data engineer to support data operations for its Cloud Data Exchange. The resource will utilize native Azure tools to perform ETL, data loading and data transformation tasks.

Complete Description

The ETL data engineer will support the OCTO Enterprise Data team for data curation, processing, and transformation tasks. Specifically, the ETL data engineer will be responsible for the following tasks:

• 1. Analyzes, designs, develops, implements, replicates, and supports complex enterprise data projects.
• 2. Interfaces with other agencies, consult with and inform user departments on system requirements, advise on environment constraints and operating difficulties for the current state and advise and resolve problems using cloud solutions and develop and replicate future enhancements to District’s data systems.
• 3. Strong knowledge of Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) processes using frameworks like Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Informatica by gathering requirements from the stake holders or analyzing the existing code and perform enhancements or new development.
• 4. Establishing the cloud and on-premise connectivity in different systems like ADLS, ADF, Synapse, Databricks
• 5. Hands on experience in Azure cloud services like Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse, MSSQL Db, Azure SQL DB, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Blob Storage, Python etc.
• 6. Worked on creating end to end pipelines to load data by reading it from multiple sources or source systems and load to landing layer or SQL tables.
• 7. Familiarity/experience with data integration and data pipeline tools (e.g., Informatica, Synapse, Apache NiFi, Apache Airflow)
• 8. Familiarity/experience with various data formats including database specific (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Quickbase), text formats(CSV, XML) and Binary(Parquet, AVRO)
• 9. Develops, standardizes and optimizes existing data workflow/pipelines adhering to best practices.
• 10. Adhere and contribute to enterprise data governance standards by ensuring data accuracy, consistency, security, and reliability.
• 11. Automates, monitors, alerts, and manages data pipelines and workflows.
• 12. Analyzes and evaluates system changes to determine feasibility, provides alternative solutions, back-up, and rollback procedures.
• 13. Works on the development of new systems, upgrades and enhancements to existing systems and ensure systems follow approved standards and consistency after the changes.
• 14. Develops complex programs and reports in database query language.
• 15. Familiarity/experience with data visualization tools.
• 16. Familiarity/experience handling and securing sensitive data based on the level of the sensitivity

CONTRACT JOB DESCRIPTION

• 1. Demonstrates expertise in conveying technical and functional concepts for a specific technical specialty.
• 2. Identifies improvements to project standards to achieve high quality services/ products. This is a professional position which may require subject matter expertise consistent with demanding and rare technological skills.
• 3. May require coordination of programming activities being conducted by the application development team
• 4. Confers with other business and technical personnel to resolve problems of intent, inaccuracy, or feasibility of computer processing and project design.
• 5. Works with necessary personnel to determine if modifications are necessary with interested personnel to determine necessity for modifications or enhancements.
• 6. Leverages excellent written and verbal communication skills to develop new business process and programming solutions as directed by business and technical stakeholders.
• 7. May coordinate activities of application developers.11-
• 8. Able to identify best practices and standards for the use of the product.
• 9. Proven track record of hands-on technical design and code work within large complex systems.
• 10. Proven hands-on technical work with a variety of technologies.
• 11. Demonstrated technical expertise integrating a variety of diverse technical environments and cross-platform technologies.
• 12. Delivers support and design for industry specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications.
• 13. Interacts with executive level business users or technical experts.
• 14. Advanced experience in the required technical subject matter.
• 15. May function as a niche technical SME (Subject Matter Expert).
• 16. Has proven experience across large and complex implementations and systems.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements :

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience