Senior Data Engineer: AI-Ready BI & Pipelines (Hybrid)

Nakupuna Consulting; Alexandria (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Nakupuna Companies seeks a Senior Data Engineer to join a consulting team supporting the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment. The role emphasizes data engineering, BI pipelines, and secure data practices in a hybrid Arlington/Pentagon setting.

Qualifications include a bachelor’s in a related field, 7+ years delivering enterprise data solutions, and strong Power Platform/Power BI, Python, SQL proficiency. U.S. citizenship and SECRET clearance required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 7+ years of experience delivering enterprise data solutions.
• Experience taking solutions through full software lifecycle.
• Multi-year experience deploying Power Platform and Power BI in production.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and query data from databases and reports.
• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines for BI.
• Create automated, AI-ready data environment across processes.
• Develop automation with Tableau and Power Platform tools.
• Structure SharePoint sites and document libraries for knowledge mgmt.
• Build secure data bridges via REST APIs and Microsoft Graph.
• Develop ETL pipelines to ingest unstructured data into structured storage.
• Prepare data for Retrieval-Augmented Generation and AI use cases.

Skills

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Senior exec interaction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Power BI

Power Apps

Power Automate

Dataverse

SharePoint Online

SQL

Python

Tableau

Azure

Azure DevOps

REST APIs

Job description

Nakupuna Companies seeks a Senior Data Engineer to join a consulting team supporting the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment. The role emphasizes data engineering, BI pipelines, and secure data practices in a hybrid Arlington/Pentagon setting.

Qualifications include a bachelor’s in a related field, 7+ years delivering enterprise data solutions, and strong Power Platform/Power BI, Python, SQL proficiency. U.S. citizenship and SECRET clearance required.