Remote Operational Technology Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Job#: 3038065
Job Description:
Data Automation Engineer
Location: 100% Remote with potential for quarterly travel to Washington, D.C.
Role Overview
We are seeking a customer experience focused Data Automation Engineer to work with a team of subject matter experts and developers to design and implement innovative data automation solutions. As a data automation engineer, you will translate business requirements to data engineering and AI based solutions to support an enterprise scale Microsoft Azure based data analytics and reporting platform. The ideal candidate is mission focused, delivery oriented, and applies critical thinking to create innovative functions and solve technical issues.
Key Responsibilities

• Utilize Microsoft Azure services including Azure Data Factory, Synapse Pipelines, Apache Spark Notebooks, Python, SQL, and stored procedures to develop high performing data pipelines.
• Continuously improve and optimize the automation toolset for reliability, scalability, and adaptability.
• Research and implement AI/ML and GenAI tools to develop intelligent applications, scripts, and ETL pipelines that automate data processes.
• Work closely with implementation specialists, engineering teams, and customers to understand data driven needs and build solutions.
• Identify, create, and prepare data required for advanced analytics, visualization, reporting, and AI/ML.
• Implement data migration, data integrity, data quality, metadata management, and data security functions to optimize data pipelines.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data related issues to maintain high availability and performance.
• Assist in ETL performance testing for data pipelines by executing test runs and validating data load performance against benchmarks.
• Support baseline performance analysis by comparing new pipeline performance with legacy system metrics.
• Actively support the Agile DevOps process, including Program Increment planning.

Required Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience with more than one of the following scripting languages: SQL, T-SQL, MDX/DAX, Python, and PySpark.
• Experience designing and building ETL/data engineering solutions and scheduling and monitoring them using cloud services such as Azure Data Lake Services, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, and Integration Runtime.
• Demonstrated experience in supporting production, testing, integration, and development environments.
• Experience with Microsoft database and business intelligence tools, including SQL Server, stored procedures, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and Power BI. Experience with data automation using Azure/AWS CLI tools with Bash or PowerShell scripting. Familiarity with Azure DevOps Repos or GitHub and pipeline versioning/release management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and/or certifications in Generative AI development, Generative AI for Data Analytics, and solution delivery.
• Microsoft certification in Azure fundamentals, data engineer, Power BI, AI or AWS certified data engineer.
• Integration knowledge using enterprise/open source ETL toolsets, REST API, or Docker.
• Experience or exposure to performance fine tuning (indexing, execution plans, views), data profiling, and query analytics.
• Knowledge of security compliance standards with data encryption, cloud virtual networks, routing, firewalls, log analytics, and monitors.
• Basic knowledge of ARM or Bicep templates for automation and familiarity with RBAC access controls.
• Experience with data lineage and impact analysis using tools like Purview or Synapse pipeline tracing.

PLEASE NOTE: Candidates must be able to obtain and/or maintain a Public Trust clearance as a condition and continuation of employment.
Company Overview & Culture
This organization is a Fortune 500 technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. Its Civil Group helps the government modernize operations with leading edge AI/ML driven data management and analytics solutions. It is a trusted partner to both government and highly-regulated commercial customers looking for transformative solutions in mission IT, security, software, engineering, and operations.
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