Data Engineer (Python/PostgreSQL)

Location: Arlington, VA, USA; on-premises federal client environment.

Salary: $150,000–$185,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a fast-growing 8(a) government contractor providing digital transformation, data management and data science, and systems modernization services.

What you will do

• Design and implement a governed centralized PostgreSQL data layer and shared data vocabulary for federal program, financial, payment, and performance data.
• Architect Python ingestion pipelines with Airflow and build reusable, configuration-driven connectors for REST APIs, flat files, database replication, and SFTP.
• Deploy pipelines through Git-based CI/CD with automated testing and security scanning to a Rancher-managed Kubernetes platform.
• Implement PII anonymization, access controls, deterministic SQL analytic rules, data-quality processes, metadata, lineage, and data-currency indicators.
• Set data-team standards, review engineering work, collaborate on API access, troubleshoot failures and performance issues, and produce documentation and knowledge transfer.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, code reviews, demonstrations, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance or eligibility for a Top Secret Tier 5 clearance; no third-party arrangements, H-1B, or Green Card holders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of professional data engineering experience, including 3+ years as a technical lead or senior engineer on a production data platform; 3+ years may apply with a master’s degree.
• Expert SQL and PostgreSQL data modeling skills, including normalized and analytic schemas, partitioning, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Strong Python pipeline-development skills and hands-on Airflow experience.
• Experience designing reusable, configuration-driven ingestion from heterogeneous sources with schema validation and data-quality checks.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git-based version control, and CI/CD in containerized environments.
• Experience handling PII and sensitive financial or program data under NIST SP 800-53 or equivalent controls.
• Agile software-development experience, collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and federal contracting experience.
• Strong written communication for data models, runbooks, documentation, and knowledge transfer.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting federal civilian, financial-oversight, budget, or program-management IT systems.
• Experience integrating SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, comparable ERP, Treasury, or payment platforms.
• Experience with grants management or federal financial systems such as GrantSolutions, eRA, or Treasury payment systems.
• Experience extracting structured data from PDF and DOCX documents at scale.
• Experience with metadata management, data lineage, and data-catalog tooling.
• Experience deploying to on-premises Kubernetes in restricted-internet federal environments; Rancher preferred.
• Familiarity with Splunk integration and NIST SP 800-53 audit-logging requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role in an Agile federal contracting environment supporting a minimum viable product and its future expansion.
• Work/life balance and performance-based cash-bonus eligibility.
• Potential participation in company growth through incentives.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance; generous PTO; life insurance; short- and long-term disability coverage; HSA; and a 401(k) with matching.