Overview
We are looking for Senior Data Engineer to work with our team and our clients to develop enterprise grade data platforms, services, pipelines, data models, visualizations, and more! The engineer needs to be a technologist with excellent communication and customer service skills and a passion for data and problem solving. This role involves technical and thought leadership across the spectrum of data capabilities, from data vision and strategy all the way through data science.
At Steampunk , our goal is to build and execute a data strategy for our clients to coordinate data collection and generation, to align the organization and its data assets in support of the mission, and ultimately to realize mission goals with the strongest effectiveness possible.
For our clients, data is a strategic asset. They are looking to become a facts-based, data-driven, customer-focused organization. To help realize this goal, they are leveraging visual analytics platforms to analyze, visualize, and share information. At Steampunk you will design and develop solutions to high-impact, complex data problems, working with the best and data practitioners around. Our data exploitation approach is tightly integrated with Human-Centered Design and DevSecOps.
Contributions
Designing and leading the implementation of greenfield data solution stacks in the cloud or on premises, using the latest data services, products, technology, and industry best practices
Expand upon existing models to estimate how long it will take clients to process digital forms/applications and to present relevant information to users about their application processing journey
Develop and deploy personalized Application Processing Time predictive models for additional services/forms as prioritized by client
Add integration points for intelligent automated help agent to connect with external applications and/or data sources, to increase the agent's effectiveness and accuracy
Create and implement data cleaning and processing strategies to ensure unstructured data is appropriate to present to the end user/customer
Analyze customer data and biometrics to identify key data points for confirming a customer's identity
Design and implement data acquisition pipelines to ensure clean structured, and high-quality data ingestion from a web application with form-based inputs, applying validation, transformation, and deduplication techniques to enhance data integrity
Develop scalable data integration solutions by enabling real-time data sharing across enterprise systems using technologies (e.g., Kafka, AWS Kinesis, oar Apache Pulsar), ensuring seamless interoperability and adherence to data governance standards
Data Architecture contributions include assessing, understanding, and implementing data sources, data models and schemas, and data workflows
Data Engineering contributions include assessing, understanding, designing, and implementing ETL jobs, data pipelines, and workflows
Analyze, validate, and create an ETL process to transition from a transaction-based model to a customer-centric model
Data Science contributions include assessing, understanding, designing, and implementing machine learning and AI applications, designing MLOps pipelines, and supporting data scientists
Addressing technical inquiries concerning customization, integration, enterprise architecture and general feature / functionality of data products
Enhance chatbot intelligence and user experience by refining LLM and natural language processing (NLP) models, improving response accuracy, and optimizing conversational flows using machine learning techniques and user interaction data
Support refactoring and optimizing chatbot architecture to improve scalability, efficiency, and maintainability , leveraging advanced AI/ML techniques, integrating with modern data pipelines, and implementing robust monitoring and analytics for continuous improvement
Key must have skill sets - broad understanding of data exploitation lifecycle and capabilities, technical leadership in the data field
Support an Agile software development lifecycle
Qualifications
Qualifications:
Ability to hold a position of public trust with the US government.
5+ years industry experience leading the design and implementation of data systems
10+ years direct experience in Data Solutions with experience in tools such as:
Big data tools: Spark
Relational databases: Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL)
Cloud Services: AWS services including RDS, ECS, EKS, ElastiCache, SES
Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Jenkins (for automation and CI/CD in data workflows)
Data science tools/language: Python (data preparation and analysis libraries)
Object oriented/scripting languages: Python
Version control and collaboration: GitHub
Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring and optimization (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
Experience with MLOps frameworks and exposure/understanding of DevOps
Experience with containerized environments such as ECS and EKS for data applications
Experience with message queuing, stream processing, such as Amazon SQS and highly scalable 'big data' data stores.
Experience processing, analyzing, extracting, and manipulating structured and unstructured data for analysis
Experience architecting data systems, including transaction and analytical (data warehouse) architectures
Experience working in an Agile environment
Experience supporting project teams of developers and data scientists who build web-based interfaces, dashboards, reports, and analytics/machine learning models
About steampunk
Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $120,000 to $180,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk's total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.
Identity Statement
As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology , we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company , we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers - and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.
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Job Location US-VA-McLean
Posted Date 9 hours ago (10/27/2025 1:48 PM)
Job ID 6539
Clearance Requirement None
