Senior Data Engineer (AI)

Location: Bethesda, MD, United States

Company

hirify.global is a public-sector consulting and information technology solutions provider supporting health, civilian, and national security missions.

What you will do

• Design, develop, test, and deploy scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for high-volume, multi-source data environments.
• Build reusable connectors and integration services for APIs, databases, files, and enterprise data sources.
• Develop RESTful APIs, data services, transformations, and normalization processes for structured and unstructured data.
• Implement validation, reconciliation, deduplication, error handling, lineage, metadata capture, logging, monitoring, and auditability.
• Design and optimize data models, schemas, relational storage solutions, SQL queries, stored procedures, and data-processing logic.
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and support a secure Federal analytics and AI modernization platform.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, or related software engineering.
• Production experience building enterprise data pipelines, ETL/ELT architectures, data transformations, orchestration, validation, reconciliation, lineage, logging, and monitoring.
• Advanced SQL and relational database skills, plus strong Python programming experience.
• Experience with REST APIs, relational databases such as PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server, Linux, Git, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Strong communication, documentation, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret eligibility are required; an active Top Secret clearance is highly preferred.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or self-hosted Azure DevOps.
• Experience with secure Federal, on-premises, or hybrid cloud environments and Federal security, privacy, accessibility, or compliance requirements.
• Experience with data catalogs, metadata management, data governance, event-driven architectures, message queues, or streaming technologies.
• Experience supporting Federal financial management, grants, payment, award oversight, or financial reporting platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with public-sector customers in health, civilian, and national security missions.
• Employer-paid health care and a 401(k) match.
• Training and professional development funds.
• Competitive compensation with potential bonus opportunities.