Node.Digital
Senior Data Engineer
Washington, District of Columbia · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years in SQL database maintenance and advanced SQL/T-SQL; 5 years in cloud-based ELT/ETL; 3 years with Azure Synapse and Azure Machine Learning; 3 years manipulating data in Python.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in data engineering, computer science, data science, machine learning, mathematics, or a related field, or five years of applied work experience in any of the same fields.
About the job
A senior data engineer designs and maintains Azure data architecture and pipelines, migrates and prepares data, and enables analysts to query and export it for investigations and audits.
What you'll do
- Build, maintain, optimize, and quality-check ETL and ELT pipelines and Azure data architecture.
- Migrate and normalize data, and develop self-service analytics capabilities for SBA OIG analysts.
- Document the environment, establish pipeline procedures, and explore automation and language-model-assisted capabilities.
What they ask for
- Must have a Public Trust Clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, or five years of applied work experience in the listed fields.
- Five years maintaining SQL databases and conducting advanced SQL and T-SQL operations.
- Five years designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud-based ELT and ETL processes; three years with Azure Synapse and Azure Machine Learning; three years manipulating data in Python. Pandas is required.
Nice to have
- DP-203 or equivalent certification; Python SDK, CLI, REST APIs, Terraform, or Bicep; source control and CI/CD workflows for data assets.
- AI coding assistants and LLM integration patterns; PySpark or Polars at production scale; entity resolution; self-service analytics access.
Tools
SQL, T-SQL, Azure Synapse, Azure Machine Learning, Python, Pandas, PySpark, Polars
AI focus
Stay current with AI tooling relevant to data engineering and contribute to exploratory evaluation of automation and language-model-assisted capabilities.
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