Remote Data Engineer - Azure Lakehouse & Pipelines

Leidos; United States; Remote; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Data Engineer to support the VA ATLAS program, onboarding data sources and delivering analytics-ready data products using Summit platform patterns. You will collaborate with VA customers, data owners, analysts, and platform teams.

This role requires designing and implementing scalable data pipelines, ensuring data quality, governance, and security, with occasional after-hours support and ETL/ELT work. Remote work within CONUS is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant data engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience building and troubleshooting production data pipelines with SQL and Python.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and data governance practices.

Responsibilities

• Assess data and analytics requirements with product owners and data stewards; translate needs into ingestion and transformation tasks.
• Develop, configure, test, and maintain batch or event-driven pipelines for new data sources using approved platform patterns.
• Build customer-focused transformations, semantic views, and datasets for reporting, analytics, and data science.
• Perform source-to-target reconciliation, freshness checks, data quality validation, and defect remediation.
• Implement approved access, metadata, lineage, and security requirements in coordination with governance and security teams.
• Monitor pipeline health and troubleshoot failed loads and data discrepancies; support production incidents.
• Document pipeline configurations, dependencies, runbooks, and handoffs; contribute improvements to reusable templates and automation.
• Coordinate customer onboarding and technical handover with Summit platform and customer enablement teams.

Skills

ETL/ELT pipelines

SQL & Python

Cloud platforms

Data modeling

Data ingestion

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Databricks

Spark

Delta Lake

Collibra

Immuta

Starburst

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Data Engineer to support the VA ATLAS program, onboarding data sources and delivering analytics-ready data products using Summit platform patterns. You will collaborate with VA customers, data owners, analysts, and platform teams.

This role requires designing and implementing scalable data pipelines, ensuring data quality, governance, and security, with occasional after-hours support and ETL/ELT work. Remote work within CONUS is available.