Senior Data Engineer — BI & Data Pipelines for Government

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services); Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dep

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Job summary

CGS Federal seeks a Data Engineer to support a growing Data Analytics and BI platform delivering actionable insights for federal clients. You will join a cross-functional team, contribute to data pipelines, ETL processes, and automated testing, and help implement complex data strategies.

The role emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and delivering high-quality data solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.
• 7+ years of IT experience including design, management, and solutioning of large, complex data sets and models.
• Experience with developing data pipelines from many sources from structured and unstructured data sets in a variety of formats.
• Proficiency in developing ETL processes, and performing test and validation steps.
• Proficiency to manipulate data (Python, R, SQL, SAS).
• Strong knowledge of big data analysis and storage tools and technologies.
• Strong understanding of the agile principles and ability to apply them.
• Strong understanding of the CI/CD pipelines and ability to apply them.
• Experience with relational database, such as, PostgreSQL.
• Work comfortably in version control systems, such as, Git Repositories.

Responsibilities

• Complete development efforts across data pipeline to store, manage, store, and provision to data consumers.
• Be an active and collaborating member of an Agile/Scrum team and follow Agile/Scrum best practices.
• Write code to ensure the performance and reliability of data extraction and processing.
• Support continuous process automation for data ingest.
• Advocate lean-agile engineering principles and practices such as API-first design, simple design, CI, version control, and automated testing.
• Work with program management and engineers to implement and document complex requirements.
• Collaborate in a cross-functional team with UX researchers, designers, product managers, and engineers.

Skills

Agile/Scrum practices

Cross-functional collaboration

Data engineering mindset

Communication across organization

Problem solving

Tools

Python

R

SQL

SAS

PostgreSQL

Git

Tableau

PowerBI

Shell scripting

Linux

Job description

CGS Federal seeks a Data Engineer to support a growing Data Analytics and BI platform delivering actionable insights for federal clients. You will join a cross-functional team, contribute to data pipelines, ETL processes, and automated testing, and help implement complex data strategies.

The role emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and delivering high-quality data solutions in a fast-paced environment.