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Government Defense

Senior Data Engineer

Washington, D.C., US

Posted on Mar 12, 2026

RegularSeniorOn SiteDigital Transformation

Job Description

Requisition #: 1478

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Washington D.C.

Clearance Level: Top Secret

SUMMARY

The Senior Data Engineer will support the development, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise data systems and pipelines that power a Private Sector Portal (PSP) and related data services. This role focuses on designing scalable ETL processes, automating data workflows, and ensuring high-quality, standardized data across the organization. The engineer will work closely with relationship management teams, developers, and enterprise stakeholders to gather technical requirements, troubleshoot issues, and deliver reliable data solutions.

As a direct employee of Agile Defense, you would receive a benefit package that includes health/dental/vision insurance coverage, 401K with company match, PTO & paid holidays, and annual tuition/training assistance. For more information, please visit our website.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

· Update and maintain the information residing on the Private Sector Portal (PSP) tool, using automation when appropriate.

· Assist the relationship management team in identifying and documenting technical requirements around the PSP system.

· Develop guidance around appropriate use of the PSP system and ensure consistent data standards across the enterprise.

· Provide expertise and customer service to HQ/field users.

· Maintain the PSP system, to include auditing content for missing or inappropriate metadata, reporting technical user problems to the contractor.

· Ensure the scheduling, processing, and documentation of data delivery and implementation, using automation when appropriate

· Design, implement, automate, and maintain Enterprise level of scalable Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) data pipelines and data analysis pipelines.

· Build and maintain robust data processing, enriching, and analysis pipelines that aggregate and normalize large datasets across diverse sources, including sources from web services. data from disparate sources.

· Automate and optimize database and data workflows for best performance and efficiency.

· Identify and propose emerging technologies, automation or alternative solutions to efficiently improve support for developers and application stakeholders.

· Develop and maintain documentation, inline comments, confluence and stand-alone documents, wherever necessary for the readability of the software design and code.

· Ability to focus on producing results efficiently.

· Ability to work independently and coordinate with team members.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education, Background, and Years of Experience

· Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in a quantitative field (i.e. Statistics or Operations Research) or technical field (i.e. Computer Science or Engineering).

· Educational requirement may be waived if the candidate has eight (8) or more years of experience.

· Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.

· Four (4) years of technical writing experience for the Federal Government.

· Four (4) years of Exceptional proficiency in writing and editing skills using MS Office.

· Minimum of 2-4 years of work experience in a data analytics or data engineering role

ADDITIONAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS Required Skills

· Proficiency with a scripting language (e.g. Python, R, Perl, bash) and advanced SQL.

· Experience with business visualization tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, Microsoft PowerBI).

· Experience with HTML, CSS, Bootstrap/Reactstrap, and JavaScript frameworks such as React.

· Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical people.

· Experience with data warehousing.

· Experience with AWS, Google Cloud ecosystem (e.g. BigQuery, Redshift).

· Experience with designing, implementing and maintaining big data processing, normalizing, and enriching pipelines in language such as Python, PySpark, or Spark.

· Experience with architecting, designing and building modern medallion ETL processes for data lake, data warehouse or lakehouse.

· Experience with building and Knowledge of automating data pipeline and workflow on Apache Niagra Files (NiFi) or Databricks for ease of maintenance.

· Experience with implementing automated data Cl/CD pipelines with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

· Experience with dataframe processing with filtering conditions.

· Experience with organizing data version history to optimize processing and retrieval performance.

· Experience with data indexing for robust searching and querying.

· Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate and integrate with enterprise partners and customers.

· Excellent at troubleshooting, debugging and researching.

· Ability to focus and a desire to learn.

· Knowledge of PostgreSQL is preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Full time on-site with client in office setting.

About Agile Defense

"Listen. Think. Innovate."​

Our goal is to innovate alongside our customers to transform their operations using IT.

We support significant agency programs and work to partner with our customers to deliver quality and innovative IT solutions with our “Listen. Think. Innovate.” philosophy. Our customers include the US Department of Defense and US civil agencies, including Department of State and the Department of Interior.

Let us know how we can bring our innovation approaches and...

Job overview

Employment type

Regular

Experience level

Senior

Work type

On Site

Department

Digital Transformation

Posted

on Mar 12, 2026

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Financials

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private

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