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Senior Data Engineer

ICF, Reston, Virginia, United States, 22090

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Senior Data Engineer ICF is a mission‑driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference. We seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference.

Team Our Health Engineering Systems (HES) team works side by side with customers to articulate a vision for success and to make it happen. It takes the right team of people, working together on the right solutions for the customer.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Spark, Hive, and Airflow

Develop and deploy data processing workflows on the Databricks platform

Develop API services to facilitate data access and integration

Create interactive data visualizations and reports using AWS QuickSight

Build required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using AWS and SQL technologies

Monitor and optimize the performance of data infrastructure and processes

Develop data quality and validation jobs

Assemble large, complex sets of data that meet non‑functional and functional business requirements

Write unit and integration tests for all data processing code

Work with DevOps engineers on CI, CD, and IaC

Read specs and translate them into code and design documents

Perform code reviews and develop processes for improving code quality

Improve data availability and timeliness by implementing more frequent refreshes, tiered data storage, and optimizations of existing datasets

Maintain security and privacy for data at rest and while in transit

Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field

7+ years of hands‑on software or data development experience

4+ years of data pipeline experience using Python, Java and cloud technologies

Candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Candidate must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US, and work must be performed in the US

Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years

Travel of up to once a quarter US domestically is required

Preferred Qualifications

U.S. Citizenship or Green Card is highly prioritized due to federal contract requirements

Experience working with Copado (strongly preferred)

Experienced in Spark and Hive for big data processing

Experience building job workflows with the Databricks platform

Strong understanding of AWS products including S3, Redshift, RDS, EMR, AWS Glue, AWS Glue DataBrew, Jupyter Notebooks, Athena, QuickSight, EMR, and Amazon SNS

Familiar with work to build processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependency and metadata

Experienced in data governance process to ingest (batch, stream), curate, and share data with upstream and downstream data users

Experienced in data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up

Demonstrated understanding using software and tools including relational NoSQL and SQL databases including Cassandra and Postgres; workflow management and pipeline tools such as Airflow, Luigi and Azkaban; stream‑processing systems like Spark‑Streaming and Storm; and object function/object‑oriented scripting languages including Scala, C++, Java and Python

Familiar with DevOps methodologies, including CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions) and IaC (Terraform)

Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust, residing in the United States

Experience with Agile methodology, using test‑driven development

Job Location This position requires that the job be performed in the United States. If you accept this position, you should note that ICF monitors employee work locations, blocks access from foreign locations/foreign IP addresses, and prohibits personal VPN connections.

Compensation Pay range: $89,203.00 – $151,646.00. Nationwide Remote Office (US99)

Employment Details Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level Employment type: Full‑time Job function: Information Technology Industry: Business Consulting and Services

Equal Opportunity Statement ICF is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Reasonable accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process.

Candidate AI Usage Policy At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews is not permitted. If such an accommodation is needed, candidates may contact us in advance at candidateaccommodation@icf.com. We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.

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