Senior Data Engineer: Telematics & Predictive Maintenance

Washington Metroplitan Area Transit Authority; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Washington Metroplitan Area Transit Authority seeks a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development, analysis, and maintenance of telematics data solutions. The role focuses on transforming operational data into actionable insight to prevent unplanned downtime and to support automated mitigations.

You will build reliable data systems, enable predictive maintenance, and work with IT and reliability teams to optimize performance and drive data-driven decisions across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a computer science, reliability, electrical, mechanical, or data-related engineering field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in engineering, reliability, maintenance, data science, data analytics, or related field.
• 2+ years of ETL (extract, transform, load) experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, automate, and maintain data workflows (ETL) from telematic systems using Microsoft Fabric Data Factory and Python.
• Organize and deploy data management systems to monitor real-time and historical data from condition monitoring and telematic systems.
• Design and develop AI-assisted data transformations, semantic models, and Power BI reports to support operational decisions.

Skills

Data analysis

Communication

Presenting

Initiative

Delivery planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / related field

Tools

Maximo

Oracle DB

SQL Developer

Power BI

Cognos BI

Job description

Washington Metroplitan Area Transit Authority seeks a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development, analysis, and maintenance of telematics data solutions. The role focuses on transforming operational data into actionable insight to prevent unplanned downtime and to support automated mitigations.

You will build reliable data systems, enable predictive maintenance, and work with IT and reliability teams to optimize performance and drive data-driven decisions across the organization.