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Senior Data Visualization Engineer

Steampunk

McLean, VAJob$115–170K/yrPosted 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$115–170K/yr
Location
McLean, VA
Work Authorization
US work authorization required

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Relevant Professional CertificationPublic Trust clearance

Job overview

Steampunk seeks a Senior Data Visualization Engineer to support a federal agency contract as a subject matter expert. The role creates dashboards and reports that turn client data into actionable insights, designs analytics solutions, and helps migrate dashboards to a unified platform. The engineer collaborates with clients and stakeholders, supports Agile development, and contributes to enterprise data and technology planning.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Data VisualizationTableauPower BICognosData GovernanceData ArchitectureData ModelingData StorageData SecurityData IntegrationData QualityParquetData LakeBusiness IntelligenceDashboard MigrationAnalytic Use CasesSelf-StarterOwnershipIndependent WorkProject ManagementWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationConcept Explanation

Qualifications

Master's+3, Bachelor's+5 or No Degree+10 YrsRelevant Professional Certification5+ Years Data Visualization Experience5+ Years Reporting Applications Experience5+ Years Data Management ExperiencePublic Trust Eligibility

Full job description

Overview

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, an organization’s data has never been a more important aspect in achieving mission and business goals. Our data exploitation experts work with our clients to support their mission and business goals by creating and executing a comprehensive data strategy using the best technology and techniques, given the challenge.

AtSteampunk, 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.

Contributions

  • Will be a Subject Matter Expert for a large contract supporting a major federal agency and will be responsible for creating visually appealing and operationally impactful dashboards and reports. This impactful work will translate our client's data into actionable insights

  • Use expert knowledge of data visualization tools to deliver information that allows client users to quickly understand data, ask better questions, and take action

  • Design, develop, and deliver analytics solutions with consideration for functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure, and performance

  • Help migrate dashboards to single unified platform

  • Collaborate with clients and stakeholders

  • Help define enterprise data and technology needs to support business intelligence and analytics

  • Facilitate meetings with diverse and sometimes conflicting points of view

  • 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.

  • Master's Degree and 3 years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor's Degree and 5 years of relevant experience; OR No degree and 10 years of relevant experience

  • Possesses at least one professional certification relevant to the technical service provided. Maintain a certification relevant to the product being deployed and/or maintained.

  • 5-7 years of experience in designing, developing, and configuring data visualizations for different types of users

  • 5-7 years of experience using Tableau, Power BI, Cognos, or other tools to create and develop robust reporting applications

  • 5-7 years of experience with data management disciplines including data governance, data architecture, data modeling, data storage, data security, data integration, and data quality

  • Experience building dashboards accessing a Data Lake, specifically Parquet files, is a must

  • Have participated in a BI platform migration

  • Ability to lead or participate in business sessions to identify and document analytic use cases

  • Ability to be a self-starter, take ownership of opportunities, work independently, and manage simultaneous projects

  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills with the ability to explain advanced concepts to audiences of varying levels using simple terms

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 $115,000 to $170,000. 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 6556

Clearance Requirement Public Trust

How this job compares

Set against the 5,652 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$115–170K/yr
  • Virginia median$120–190K/yr323 salary ranges
  • US median$125–208K/yr4,347 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $143K, is 8% below the Virginia median midpoint ($155K) — in the middle half of Data Engineer salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 395 open Data Engineer jobs in Virginia and 5,652 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (4,895 postings).
Education
2,160 of the 5,652 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 3, 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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