
Head Start Data Engineer Senior Consultant
- Tysons Corner, VA
- $85,000-141,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
- Lead and execute data engineering projects from inception to completion, ensuring timely delivery and high quality.
- Build and optimize data architectures for operational and analytical purposes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and define data requirements.
- Implement data quality, data governance, and data security practices.
- Manage and optimize cloud-based data platforms ( Azure\AWS).
- Develop and maintain Python libraries for data ingestion, Processing and integration with both internal and external data sources.
- Design and optimize scalable data pipelines from infrastructure, e.g., using AWS CloudFormation
- Develop frameworks for data ingestion, transformation, and validation.
- Mentor junior data engineers and guide best practices in data engineering.
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies and tools to improve data infrastructure.
- Minimum THREE (3) years of experience
- US Citizenship is contractually required for this role
- Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Economics, or similar quantitative discipline
- 2 years direct experience with data engineering support to the Office of Head Start
- Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of prior relevant experience (relevant experience may be substituted for formal education or advanced degree)
- 3 years of experience with analytics development including Python
- Experience managing data product development at enterprise scale, including on cloud platforms AWS and Azure, using GenAI resources from, e.g., from Azure OpenAI
- Experience working with code repositories and continuous integration (i.e. Git, Jenkins, etc.)
- 3+ years of database experience, including SQL and noSQL
- Experience advising/briefing senior executives
- Experience visually communicating data analysis visually, including bespoke analyses and BI Tools such as Power BI or Amazon QuickSight
- Education: M.S./M.A. in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Economics, or similar quantitative discipline.