Senior Data Engineer — AI-Ready Data Pipelines

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

Job summary

Nakupuna Companies is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to support the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment. The role focuses on building data pipelines, BI dashboards, and secure data infrastructures within a hybrid Pentagon-based environment.

Ideal candidates will have 7+ years of enterprise data experience, strong SQL/Python skills, and hands-on Power Platform expertise. A SECRET clearance and U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 7+ years delivering enterprise data solutions.
• Experience taking solutions through full software lifecycle: requirements, design, coding, testing, deployment, sustainment.
• Extensive experience with Power Platform and Power BI in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and collect data using MS SQL queries and data systems to provide reports, dashboards.
• Design, build and maintain data pipelines for BI.
• Develop automated ETL pipelines for unstructured data.
• Create automated bridges using REST APIs and Microsoft Graph to integrate Microsoft 365 and Dataverse.
• Structure and clean internal documents to support RAG systems with secure data access.
• Develop Python data processing utilities using Pandas for data validation.

Skills

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Work under pressure

Executive interaction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Science

Tools

Power BI

Power Apps

Power Automate

Dataverse

SharePoint

Excel

SQL

Python

Azure

Azure DevOps

Job description

Nakupuna Companies is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to support the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment. The role focuses on building data pipelines, BI dashboards, and secure data infrastructures within a hybrid Pentagon-based environment.

Ideal candidates will have 7+ years of enterprise data experience, strong SQL/Python skills, and hands-on Power Platform expertise. A SECRET clearance and U.S.