ETL Data Engineer (AWS)

Location: Hybrid in Vienna, Virginia, United States; project support in Arlington, Virginia

Salary: $90,000–$130,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a Federal IT solutions provider delivering technology and strategic solutions across national security, federal financial, healthcare, and space and science domains.

What you will do

• Develop and support REST APIs and backend services, including authentication, database connectivity, configuration, and documentation.
• Build and maintain file-ingestion and ETL workflows that parse, transform, validate, and load structured data into relational databases.
• Automate and maintain file transfers using AWS S3, SFTP, shell scripts, and environment-specific configurations.
• Support legacy applications and batch processes involving Java, C#, SQL stored procedures, ETL jobs, and reporting integrations.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve monitoring, logging, error handling, notifications, and recovery procedures.
• Deploy and support applications across development, QA, and production environments while collaborating with application, operations, security, and data stakeholders.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to pass the required criminal and financial background investigation.
• At least five years of experience developing or supporting production software and data-processing systems.
• Proficiency with SQL and relational databases, plus experience with APIs, data integration, batch processing, or ETL.
• Ability to troubleshoot application code, databases, file workflows, and deployment environments.
• Familiarity with secure development practices, source control, testing, and technical documentation.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with modern and legacy systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with Node, TypeScript, Express, OpenAPI, MySQL, AWS S3, AWS CLI, SFTP, and shell scripting.
• Familiarity with Cloud Foundry deployments and service bindings.
• Experience with IBM DataStage or similar ETL platforms.
• Experience maintaining Java, C#, and SQL stored-procedure workloads.
• Background supporting regulated, financial, or reporting-oriented systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with retirement, deferred compensation, health, dental, life, disability, and flexible spending benefits.
• PTO, including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave, plus eleven paid federal holidays.
• Employer-paid employee premiums under the HDHP health plan and employer-paid life and disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan with a match that becomes fully vested after two years of service.
• Annual tuition and professional development reimbursement.
• Culture focused on innovation, collaboration, accountability, resourcefulness, tenacity, and continuous learning.