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Data Engineer

Steampunk

McLean, VAJob$125–160K/yrPosted 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago

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Compensation
$125–160K/yr
Location
McLean, VA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Public Trust clearance

Job overview

Steampunk is seeking a Data Engineer to develop enterprise-grade data platforms, services, and pipelines with its team and clients. The role involves data-environment migration, assessment of ETL workflows and BI tools, and support for data products and Agile development. The posting emphasizes Python and AWS, along with experience across data engineering tools, databases, streaming systems, and large datasets.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

PythonAWSData EngineeringHadoopSparkKafkaSQLNoSQL DatabasesPostgresCassandraAzkabanLuigiAirflowEC2EMRRDSRedshiftAzureStormSpark StreamingSolrLuceneElasticsearchJavaC++ScalaQuery OptimizationMessage QueuingStream ProcessingBig Data StoresData ExtractionData AnalysisData ModelingData ArchitectureData AggregationAgileCommunicationCustomer ServiceProblem Solving

Qualifications

Public Trust Eligibility2+ Years Industry Experience2+ Years Data Engineering Experience

Full job description

Overview

We are looking for seasoned Data Engineer to work with our team and our clients to develop enterprise grade data platforms, services, and pipelines. We are looking for more than just a "Data Engineer", but a technologist with excellent communication and customer service skills and a passion for data and problem solving.

Contributions

  • Lead and architect migration of data environments with performance and reliability.

  • Assess and understand the ETL jobs, workflows, BI tools, and reports

  • Address technical inquiries concerning customization, integration, enterprise architecture and general feature / functionality of data products

  • Experience in crafting database / data warehouse solutions in cloud (Preferably AWS. Alternatively Azure, GCP).

  • Key must have skill sets – Python, AWS

  • Support an Agile software development lifecycle

  • You will contribute to the growth of our Data Exploitation Practice!

Qualifications

  • Ability to hold a position of public trust with the US government.

  • 2-4 years industry experience coding commercial software and a passion for solving complex problems.

  • 2-4 years direct experience in Data Engineering with experience in tools such as:

  • Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.

  • Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.

  • Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.

  • AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift (or Azure equivalents)

  • Data streaming systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.

  • Search tools: Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch

  • Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.

  • 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 message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.

  • Experience manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets.

  • Experience manipulating structured and unstructured data for analysis

  • Experience constructing complex queries to analyze results using databases or in a data processing development environment

  • Experience with data modeling tools and process

  • Experience architecting data systems (transactional and warehouses)

  • Experience aggregating results and/or compiling information for reporting from multiple datasets

  • 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 $125,000 to $160,000. 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. 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 (11/1/2026 10:36 AM)

Job ID 6391

Clearance Requirement Public Trust

How this job compares

Set against the 6,272 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$125–160K/yr
  • Virginia median$120–196K/yr360 salary ranges
  • US median$122–208K/yr4,899 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $143K, is 9% below the Virginia median midpoint ($156K) — in the middle half of Data Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 460 open Data Engineer jobs in Virginia and 6,272 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 5,489 postings).
Education
2,402 of the 6,272 open Data Engineer jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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