Data Engineer

Location: Washington, DC, USA; on-site support in the Bethesda, Maryland area may be required as directed. Work-from-home flexibility is available.

Salary: $130,000–$145,000 per year

Company

hirify.global delivers IT, data, and technology capabilities to government agencies, including federal health agencies.

What you will do

• Build and maintain production data pipelines, transformations, and integration structures for enterprise business applications and modernization initiatives.
• Profile source data, schemas, interfaces, and data movement to document lineage, dependencies, and integration requirements.
• Design ETL processes with validation, reconciliation, data quality checks, error handling, logging, and recoverable processing.
• Develop SQL and transformation logic for application integration, operational reporting, and approved data products.
• Support database and application migrations through mapping, test loads, reconciliation, performance optimization, and controlled cutover.
• Monitor workflows, investigate failures, maintain runbooks and documentation, coordinate with stakeholders, and transfer knowledge during service transition.

Requirements

• Experience building and supporting production data pipelines and integration workflows.
• Strong SQL skills with relational data modeling, schema analysis, and data transformation experience.
• Experience implementing data quality checks, reconciliation, lineage, and operational error handling.
• Experience troubleshooting performance and reliability issues in scheduled or distributed data workflows.
• Experience with source control, automated testing, and controlled deployment of data changes.
• Ability to collaborate with application engineers, database administrators, business analysts, data owners, Government stakeholders, and contractor teams.
• Ability to document work clearly, protect sensitive program information, use Government-approved tools, and validate AI-assisted output before delivery decisions.
• 6–10 years of experience with Oracle, SQL Server, or approved managed cloud databases relevant to assigned systems.
• Ability to meet federal suitability and access requirements; must hold or be eligible for a Public Trust Moderate (Tier 2) background investigation and applicable badging and system-access requirements.
• On-site support in the Bethesda, Maryland area may be required as directed.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills, including explaining findings, documenting decisions and procedures, and communicating risks and recommended actions.

Nice to have

• Experience modernizing data integration or migrating application data to cloud services.
• Experience preparing governed data sources for approved analytics or AI-assisted requirements analysis.
• Experience supporting a Federal IT services environment, preferably for a federal health agency or comparable federal IT environment.
• Experience transferring knowledge from an incumbent team and maintaining reliable services during transition.
• Degree or relevant coursework in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related discipline.
• Relevant data platform, database, or cloud certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role with work-from-home flexibility and a mainly routine office environment.
• Collaboration across Government, prime contractor, subcontractor, application, database, and data-owner teams.
• Flexible availability for extended working hours may be required.
• Pre-employment screening is required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be available for qualified individuals with disabilities.