Senior Data Engineer: BI, AI Pipelines & Automation

Nakupuna Companies; Alexandria (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, automating BI workloads, and enabling secure RAG workflows in a hybrid Pentagon setting.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of enterprise data experience, strong Power Platform skills, and a background in SharePoint, SQL, Python, and cloud tools. Active SECRET clearance required; U.S. citizenship is a must.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field (CS/IS/DS/SE) or equivalent.
• 7+ years experience developing enterprise digital, data, automation, and integration solutions.
• Experience delivering solutions through full software lifecycle: requirements to sustainment.
• Multi-year hands-on Power Platform and Power BI deployments in production.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and collect data using MS SQL and multiple databases to provide reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and BI transformations.
• Construct automated, AI-ready environments with secure data handling and RAG readiness.

Skills

Power BI

Power Apps

Power Automate

Dataverse

SharePoint Online

Python

SQL

Tableau

Azure

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Tableau

Power Platform

SharePoint

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, automating BI workloads, and enabling secure RAG workflows in a hybrid Pentagon setting.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of enterprise data experience, strong Power Platform skills, and a background in SharePoint, SQL, Python, and cloud tools. Active SECRET clearance required; U.S. citizenship is a must.