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Senior Data Warehouse Engineer

Steampunk

McLean, VAJob$140–180K/yrPosted 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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Compensation
$140–180K/yr
Location
McLean, VA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Public Trust clearance

Job overview

Steampunk seeks a Senior Data Warehouse Engineer to work with clients on developing, optimizing, and scaling enterprise data platforms, warehouses, and pipelines. The role leads data-environment migrations, builds warehouse solutions and ETL pipelines, and supports governance, data quality, and analytics. The engineer collaborates with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders in an Agile environment and contributes to the company’s Data Exploitation Practice.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

PythonObject-Oriented ProgrammingData GovernanceHadoopSparkKafkaAWS RedshiftAmazon S3Amazon RDSAWS GlueAWS LambdaDatabricksPySparkSparkSQLSSISAzure Data FactoryData Pipeline OrchestrationWorkflow ManagementApache AirflowLuigiAWS Step FunctionsData ModelingSchema DesignEntity-Relationship DiagramsSQLDatabase OptimizationSQL ServerPostgreSQLMySQLOracleData MigrationDevSecOpsCI/CD

Qualifications

Public Trust Eligibility5+ Years Data Engineering ExperienceBachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or Equivalent

Full job description

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Data Warehouse Engineer to join our team and work closely with clients to develop, optimize, and scale enterprise-grade data platforms, warehouses, and pipelines. We are looking for more than just a “Senior Data Warehouse Engineer,” but a highly skilled data technologist with strong communication and problem-solving abilities who thrives in cloud-based environments.

Contributions

  • Lead and architect the migration of data environments with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.

  • Design, implement, and optimize data warehouse solutions, ensuring best practices in data modeling, storage, and retrieval.

  • Ability to examine and understand complex data pipelines.

  • Assess, document, and analyze data sources, ETL workflows, and business intelligence tools.

  • Address technical inquiries related to data warehouse customization, integration, and enterprise architecture.

  • Develop and maintain robust data pipelines and ETL processes to support business intelligence and analytics.

  • Design and enforce data governance strategies, ensuring high data quality and compliance.

  • Work in an Agile development environment, collaborating with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders.

  • Contribute to the growth of our Data Exploitation Practice by implementing cutting-edge data warehousing solutions.

Qualifications

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

  • 5-7+ years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or data architecture.

  • Proficiency in Python or other object-oriented languages such as Scala, Java, or C++.

  • Experience designing and implementing data governance strategies.

Preferred:

  • Hands-on experience with big data tools such as Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.

  • Expertise in cloud-based data warehouse solutions, preferably AWS (Redshift, S3, RDS, Glue, Lambda).

  • Experience with Databricks, PySpark, SparkSQL preferred

  • Experience with ETL tools (SSIS or ADF preferred), data pipeline orchestration, and workflow management tools such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, or AWS Step Functions.

  • Experience designing data models, schema design, and entity-relationship diagrams.

  • Strong knowledge of SQL and database optimization techniques (Preferably SQL Server. Alternatively, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle).

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, a related technical discipline, or professional experience equivalent.

  • Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale data migration efforts.

  • Ability to work in a DevSecOps environment, applying CI/CD best practices.

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 $140,000 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 ourFederalclients 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 6191

Clearance Requirement Public Trust

How this job compares

Set against the 6,389 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$140–180K/yr
  • Virginia median$118–194K/yr365 salary ranges
  • US median$125–208K/yr4,942 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $160K, is 3% above the Virginia median midpoint ($156K) — in the middle half of Data Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 467 open Data Engineer jobs in Virginia and 6,389 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 5 years of experience; Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (5,569 postings).
Education
2,510 of the 6,389 open Data Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

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