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CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)

Federal professional services

Data Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/13/2026
$112.6k - $152.8k/yr
Senior
Remote in USA+2 moreMore locations: Fairfax, VA, USA | Chantilly, VA, USA
Hybrid
Data & AnalyticsData Engineering
No H1B Sponsorship
US Citizenship Required

About the job

Requirements
  • Must be a United States citizen.
  • Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
  • Must have at least 7 years of information technology experience, including experience designing, managing, and solutioning large, complex data sets and models.
  • Experience developing data pipelines from many sources, including structured and unstructured data sets in a variety of formats.
  • Proficiency in developing extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes and performing testing and validation.
  • Proficiency manipulating data with Python, R, SQL, or SAS.
  • Strong knowledge of big data analysis and storage tools and technologies.
  • Strong understanding of Agile principles and ability to apply them.
  • Strong understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and ability to apply them.
  • Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.
  • Ability to work comfortably in version control systems such as Git repositories.
Responsibilities
  • Complete development efforts across data pipelines to store, manage, and provision data to consumers.
  • Actively collaborate as a member of an Agile/Scrum team and follow Agile/Scrum best practices.
  • Write code to ensure the performance and reliability of data extraction and processing.
  • Support continuous process automation for data ingestion.
  • Advocate for and adhere to lean-agile engineering principles and practices, including API-first design, simple design, continuous integration, version control, and automated testing.
  • Work with program management and engineers to implement and document complex and evolving requirements.
  • Collaborate with a cross-functional team that includes user experience researchers and designers, product managers, engineers, and other functional specialists.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience creating and consuming APIs.
  • Experience with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and knowledge of DHS standards.
  • Extensive experience with Python will receive special consideration.
  • Ability to develop visualizations using Tableau or Power BI.
  • Experience developing shell scripts on Linux.
  • Demonstrated experience translating business and technical requirements into comprehensive data strategies and analytic solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate across all organizational levels and explain technical terms to non-technical audiences.

About the company

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CGS Federal (Contact Government Services) is a government contractor providing professional and technology services to public agencies. The company supports federal programs with information technology, litigation support, records work, data services, cybersecurity, and program operations. It serves federal agencies, legal teams, public-sector program leaders, and mission-oriented operating units. Its operating model centers on contract teams embedded in regulated government environments and supported by recruiting, security, delivery, and corporate operations. Teams work across software, infrastructure, cybersecurity, legal support, data, project management, recruiting, and administration. Teams support coordinated daily delivery.

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