Remote Data Engineer: Cloud Data Pipelines

ICF Olson; United States; Remote; USD 81,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF Olson is seeking a Data Engineer to build and maintain data pipelines, semantic views, and consumption-ready data models for analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases. You will apply ETL/ELT, SQL and Python, with Databricks and Azure Data Factory to support scalable data products.

The role emphasizes collaboration with data owners and governance teams to ensure reliable, governed data assets and strong documentation. Remote work with DC-area onsite meetings is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, Statistics, Software Engineering, or related field; or high school diploma with four years of relevant experience
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
• Master's degree may substitute for two years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines, transformations, semantic views, conformed dimensions, and consumption-ready data models for analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases
• Implement pipeline documentation, lineage support, release-readiness evidence, quality checks, and defect resolution
• Work with data owners, governance personnel, and customer-facing teams to ensure data products are understandable, reliable, and ready for approved use
• Apply ETL/ELT, SQL/Python, Databricks, Azure Data Factory or equivalent orchestration, semantic views, data modeling, quality checks, and documentation
• Collaborate with product, engineering, security, governance, quality, and customer-facing stakeholders
• Document work products, decisions, risks, and delivery evidence to support traceability and continuous improvement

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Decision-making

Communication skills

Organization

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

High school diploma with additional experience

Master's degree may substitute for experience

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Apache Spark

SQL

Python

Azure Data Factory

Unity Catalog

Power BI

Job description

ICF Olson is seeking a Data Engineer to build and maintain data pipelines, semantic views, and consumption-ready data models for analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases. You will apply ETL/ELT, SQL and Python, with Databricks and Azure Data Factory to support scalable data products.

The role emphasizes collaboration with data owners and governance teams to ensure reliable, governed data assets and strong documentation. Remote work with DC-area onsite meetings is available.