MetroStar

Senior Data Engineer

MetroStar

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: District of ColumbiaMarylandUnited States

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Salary

💰 $128,000 - $138,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design and maintain scalable data pipelines supporting AI-enabled compliance workflows
  • Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for large-scale document and financial datasets
  • Engineer ingestion pipelines across structured and unstructured data sources
  • Integrate relational databases and enterprise data systems into secure, production-grade AI architectures
  • Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, DevSecOps, cybersecurity specialists, financial SMEs, and UX teams within a regulated DoW environment

Requirements

  • Active Secret clearance required
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • Minimum 5 years of data engineering professional experience
  • Experience supporting DoD environments preferred
  • Experience building and maintaining RAG pipelines including document ingestion, chunking, embedding, vector storage, and semantic search
  • Strong Python proficiency with disciplined typing, functional programming patterns, and async/concurrent execution for data-intensive workloads
  • Hands-on ETL experience across Excel, XML, YAML, Markdown, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL using SQLAlchemy and schema migrations
  • Familiarity with LLM integration patterns including prompt engineering, structured response parsing, caching strategies, and evaluation frameworks
Benefits
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • Paid time off (PTO) and holidays
  • Parental Leave and dependent care
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Employee assistance and wellness programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)PythonETLSQLPostgreSQLschema migrationsfunctional programmingasync programmingdata pipelines
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunication
Certifications
Active Secret clearance