Data and Automation Engineer

Job Summary

To support a Federal grants oversight program, the full-time Data and Automation Engineer will build and operate data pipelines, develop document processing services, and create workflow tools in a remote environment with occasional on-site meetings in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Key responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines that ingest, validate, and reconcile data from public Federal sources and client systems
• Develop document processing services that extract structured data from PDFs and other unstructured documents
• Implement logging, monitoring, automated testing, and security controls while documenting work and delivering in short increments

Required qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or eight or more years of relevant experience in place of a degree
• Production experience building and operating data pipelines and document processing services in a Federal or regulated cloud environment
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience in pipeline orchestration tools and relational databases
• Experience building applications that utilize large language models or other AI services
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a Federal Public Trust background investigation