
ETL Engineer
McLean, VAJob$110–130K/yrPosted 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Steampunk is seeking a seasoned ETL Engineer to develop enterprise-grade data pipelines with its team and clients. The role involves building and deploying pipelines, supporting analytics users, and collaborating with data architects and project teams. Candidates should bring 2–4 years of industry and data engineering experience, strong Python and SQL skills, and the ability to hold a position of public trust with the US government.
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Overview
We are looking for a seasoned ETL Engineer to work with our team and our clients to develop enterprise grade data pipelines. We are looking for more than just an "ETL Engineer", but a technologist with excellent communication and customer service skills and a passion for data and problem solving.
Contributions
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Assess and understand ETL jobs and workflows
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Create reusable data pipelines from source to target systems
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Test, validate, and deploy ETL pipelines
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Support reporting, business intelligence, and data science end users through ETL and ELT operations
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Work with data architects to create data models and design schemas for RDBMS, warehouse, and data lake systems
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Key must have skill sets – Python, SQL
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Work within an Agile software development lifecycle
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You will contribute to the growth of our Data Exploitation Practice!
Qualifications
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Ability to hold a position of public trust with the US government.
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2-4 years industry experience coding commercial software and a passion for solving complex problems.
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2-4 years direct experience in Data Engineering with experience in tools such as:
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ETL Tools: Python, Informatica, Pentaho, Talend
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Big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
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Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
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Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
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AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift (or Azure equivalents)
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Data streaming systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
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Search tools: Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch
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Object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
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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.
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Experience with message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
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Experience manipulating structured and unstructured data for analysis
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Experience constructing complex queries to analyze results using databases or in a data processing development environment
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Experience working in an Agile environment
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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 $110,000 to $130,000. 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 6418
Clearance Requirement Public Trust
How this job compares
Set against the 6,268 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$110–130K/yr
- Virginia median$120–196K/yr360 salary ranges
- US median$122–208K/yr4,899 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $120K, is 23% below the Virginia median midpoint ($156K) — in the lowest quarter of Data Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 460 open Data Engineer jobs in Virginia and 6,268 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
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- 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 5,485 postings).
- Education
- 2,402 of the 6,268 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 6, 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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