Onsite Backend Data Engineer – Azure Data Pipelines

Piper Companies; Norfolk (VA); On-site; AUD 135,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k Plan

Holidays

PTO

Sick leave

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Backend Data Engineer to support the USN. This 100% onsite role, based near Norfolk, VA, focuses on building and maintaining data pipelines for enterprise reporting and analytics.

You will work with Azure Data Factory, SQL databases, and Power BI integration to deliver reliable backend data infrastructure. The ideal candidate has 3–4 years of data engineering experience, an active Secret clearance, and IAT Level II certification.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of hands-on Data Engineering experience.
• Active Secret clearance is required.
• IAT Level II certification is required.
• Hands-on experience developing data pipelines and ETL/data integration solutions.
• Strong SQL/SQL database experience.
• Experience with enterprise data transformation, staging, and aggregation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise data pipelines supporting Navy and DoD environments.
• Use Azure Data Factory to build pipelines and connect legacy systems, applications, databases, and data repositories.
• Ingest data from legacy and disparate sources and determine appropriate extraction and integration approaches.
• Transform, cleanse, stage, aggregate, and prepare data for downstream reporting and analytics.
• Develop and maintain SQL queries and work with SQL databases and data repositories.
• Integrate systems and move data between platforms and repositories.
• Troubleshoot data pipeline failures, connectivity issues, and data quality problems.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data sources, dependencies, and reporting needs.
• Develop data solutions that feed Power BI and other BI tools.
• Document data flows, pipeline architecture, and dependencies.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL pipelines

SQL databases

Power BI integration

Tools

Azure Data Factory (ADF)

SSIS

Python

PowerShell

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Backend Data Engineer to support the USN. This 100% onsite role, based near Norfolk, VA, focuses on building and maintaining data pipelines for enterprise reporting and analytics.

You will work with Azure Data Factory, SQL databases, and Power BI integration to deliver reliable backend data infrastructure. The ideal candidate has 3–4 years of data engineering experience, an active Secret clearance, and IAT Level II certification.