Hybrid Senior Data Engineer - Analytics Platform Lead

Eliassen Group; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 62,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group in Rockville, MD is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain an analytics platform that integrates data from Jira, Bitbucket, GitLab, Jenkins, and Splunk. You will lead data pipelines, quality remediation, and metrics reporting while delivering dashboards and lightweight apps for actionable insights.

Responsibilities include building end-to-end data solutions, mentoring teammates, and communicating findings to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Strong Python programming and advanced SQL skills.
• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines across multiple sources.
• Hands-on with REST APIs, authentication, pagination, rate limits, and error handling.
• Experience with large datasets, incremental loads, and changing source schemas.
• Automated data validation and reconciliation implementation experience.
• Root-cause analysis for data discrepancies.
• Dashboard development using Grafana, Splunk, Power BI, or custom web applications.
• Experience with Python frameworks such as Streamlit or Dash for lightweight apps.
• Strong analytical reasoning and problem-solving abilities.
• Preferred: Integrations with Jira, Bitbucket, GitLab, Jenkins, Splunk, and deployment systems.
• Preferred: Knowledge of software delivery lifecycle metrics, including DORA metrics.
• Preferred: Cloud platforms, workflow orchestration, and production pipeline monitoring.
• Preferred: DevOps analytics or developer experience initiatives.
• Ideally 5-8+ years of relevant hands-on experience with senior-level ownership of data engineering and analytics solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines across multiple engineering data sources.
• Model, transform, aggregate, and optimize data for analytics and reporting.
• Implement automated data validation, reconciliation, monitoring, and alerting.
• Investigate and resolve data quality issues including missing, duplicate, and inconsistent records.
• Define and calculate KPIs with clear and consistent business rules.
• Analyze datasets to derive insights and distinguish trends from data issues.
• Build interactive dashboards and lightweight data applications to present insights.
• Apply strong debugging, testing, documentation, and version control practices.
• Work independently to deliver end-to-end solutions from ambiguous requirements.
• Mentor junior developers and establish reusable engineering standards.
• Communicate technical findings and data-quality issues to stakeholders.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

Data quality

Dashboards

REST APIs

Problem solving

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Grafana

Splunk

Power BI

Streamlit

Dash

Job description

Eliassen Group in Rockville, MD is seeking a hands-on Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain an analytics platform that integrates data from Jira, Bitbucket, GitLab, Jenkins, and Splunk. You will lead data pipelines, quality remediation, and metrics reporting while delivering dashboards and lightweight apps for actionable insights.

Responsibilities include building end-to-end data solutions, mentoring teammates, and communicating findings to stakeholders.