Freelance Data Platform Engineer Jobs in Silver Spring, MD

MPR Associates, Inc. (MPR), a thriving multi-discipline, specialty engineering services and consulting firm, is actively seeking a capable and motivated Data Platform Engineer to join our team. If you are seeking a unique, challenging, and rewarding career opportunity, MPR may be the right company for you.

Founded in 1964, MPR has a wide and growing client base in the fields of power and energy, federal services, and health and life sciences, in the United States as well as internationally. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, we also have offices in East Lyme, Connecticut, Burlington, Massachusetts, and Salt Lake City, Utah. MPR makes challenging projects successful, delivering safe and reliable technical solutions across the entire project or product life-cycle to benefit our clients and society as a whole. We hire the best and brightest, which results in a high-performance culture built on trust and respect, making MPR an exceptional place to work.

General Job Description

Join our engineering team as a Data Platform Engineer where you'll build robust data processing applications and analytics solutions. We're looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of software engineering, data engineering, and real-world implementations, creating scalable systems that transform raw data into actionable insights.

We specifically seek engineers who bring an engineering mindset to software development - those who approach problems with the systematic, analytical thinking that comes from engineering training. As part of our team, you'll architect and develop applications that handle large-scale data processing, working with modern cloud platforms and visualization tools to deliver comprehensive analytics solutions that support engineering design, analysis and optimization.

• Build Data Applications: Develop high-performance applications using C++, C#, Java, or equivalent languages for data processing.
• Design Data Pipelines: Create and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines that process large volumes of data efficiently.
• Cloud Platform Development: Build and deploy data solutions on AWS using services like S3, EC2, Lambda, and data analytics tools.
• Analytics Integration: Implement visualization and reporting solutions that make complex data accessible to stakeholders.
• Performance Optimization: Ensure applications can handle high-throughput data processing with optimal performance.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with the remainder of the engineering team to implement a solution which fits all needs of the client.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering Discipline.

• Two (2) or more years of software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in C# and Python.
• Understanding of database systems and data modeling concepts.
• Comfortable working with both structured and unstructured data.
• Strong problem-solving skills for both performance and scalability challenges.
• Experience building data processing pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows preferred.
• Hands-on experience with AWS data services and cloud architecture preferred.
• Familiarity with data visualization platforms and reporting systems preferred.
• Experience building production applications that process significant volumes.
• Experience building user-facing applications with data backends preferred.
• Proficiency in C++ preferred.

• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies while multitasking.
• Ability and interest to stretch beyond current experiences and into new areas of software engineering.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to work collaboratively across functional teams.
• Exceptional time and project management skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Persistent, questioning attitude and ability to accept that in others.
• Motivated to expand skills and knowledge, as well as tackle new problem and take on new responsibilities.
• Ability to participate in multiple projects and project teams concurrently.

MPR Associates, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, who participates in E-Verify. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other classification as required by applicable laws.  MPR is a certified Virginia Values Veterans (V3) employer.