Senior Data Engineer: Build Secure, Scalable Pipelines

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale data pipelines and core data infrastructure in a regulated federal environment.

You will implement end‑to‑end ETL/ELT, optimize schemas, ensure data quality, security, and lineage, and collaborate with data scientists and analysts to deliver reusable data assets.

This on-site role in Fairfax, VA requires 5–8 years’ experience and a SECRET clearance eligibility; cloud experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in data/softw are engineering.
• 5–8 years in data engineering or related roles.
• Experience with Spark, Kafka or similar streaming platforms and Airflow.
• Strong relational and non-relational data stores knowledge; analytics-oriented schemas.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed data pipelines to support high‑volume, near‑real‑time and batch processing.
• Develop and optimize data models and schemas for analytics and integration.
• Implement and operate ETL/ELT workflows with Airflow and cloud services, ensuring end‑to‑end automation.
• Establish data quality validation rules, monitoring, and lineage for governance and compliance.
• Maintain data lineage, cataloging, and metadata management for auditability.
• Apply security best practices, including encryption and access controls, for sensitive data.
• Troubleshoot pipeline issues and performance bottlenecks; drive long‑term remediation.
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to translate requirements into scalable data assets.

Skills

Distributed data processing

Data modeling

ETL/ELT design

Data security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Engineering

Tools

Apache Spark

Kafka

Flink

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

S3 / data lake storage

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale data pipelines and core data infrastructure in a regulated federal environment.

You will implement end‑to‑end ETL/ELT, optimize schemas, ensure data quality, security, and lineage, and collaborate with data scientists and analysts to deliver reusable data assets.

This on-site role in Fairfax, VA requires 5–8 years’ experience and a SECRET clearance eligibility; cloud experience is a plus.