Data Engineer / Metadata Engineer

Location: Hybrid schedule in the Arlington, Virginia office, United States

Salary: $160,000–$180,000 per year

Company

Support the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Technical Engineering and Support Services program through hirify.global's AI, data, and analytics team.

What you will do

• Design, build, maintain, and optimize scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes across structured and unstructured sources.
• Develop data models, warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, and integrations supporting enterprise analytics, reporting, AI/ML, and business intelligence.
• Design metadata repositories and catalogs, including metadata collection, classification, enrichment, lineage, impact analysis, and consistency controls.
• Implement data governance, quality monitoring, validation, master data management, and reference data solutions.
• Develop cloud-native data solutions and contribute to infrastructure-as-code, platform automation, monitoring, and reliable processing workflows.
• Collaborate with architects, analysts, data scientists, governance teams, and stakeholders; document designs, data flows, metadata models, and procedures.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret (TS) clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, metadata management, or related data platform roles.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Strong SQL development and database management skills.
• Experience with data warehousing and large-scale data processing.
• Understanding of metadata management, data lineage, and data catalog concepts.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a hybrid Arlington, Virginia office schedule.
• Benefits are available through hirify.global's general benefits program.