Senior Data Engineer: Architect Enterprise Data Platforms

Steampunk; Bloomington (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to collaborate with our team and clients to build enterprise-grade data platforms, services, and pipelines.

The ideal technologist will combine deep data engineering skills with strong communication and customer service, driving end‑to‑end data solutions. You will work in a federal contracting context, contributing to the Data Exploitation Practice and guiding architecture migrations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with extensive data engineering experience.
• Experience building scalable data pipelines and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and architect migration of data environments with performance and reliability.
• Assess ETL jobs, workflows, BI tools, and reports.
• Address inquiries on customization, integration, and enterprise data products.
• Design data pipelines ingesting, transforming, and unifying data from multiple sources.
• Work with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data including JSON/logs/docs.

Skills

Python

Java

Scala

SQL

Data modeling

ETL

Airflow

AWS

PostgreSQL

Agile

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree + 10+ years

Master's degree + 8+ years

Associate's degree + 12+ years

No degree + 14+ years

Tools

DynamoDB

MongoDB

Job description

Steampunk is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to collaborate with our team and clients to build enterprise-grade data platforms, services, and pipelines.

The ideal technologist will combine deep data engineering skills with strong communication and customer service, driving end‑to‑end data solutions. You will work in a federal contracting context, contributing to the Data Exploitation Practice and guiding architecture migrations.