Senior Data Engineer
Piper Companies · Reston, VA · 4 days ago
Information Technology$160k–$180k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain production data pipelines using API ingestion, CDC, and event-driven patterns
- Develop and manage dbt models for clean, analytics-ready datasets
- Design scalable data solutions in AWS and Databricks
- Implement data quality, testing, and monitoring practices
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams on metrics and reporting
- Create dashboards and data models to support business insights
Requirements
- 5+ years of data engineering experience
- Strong SQL and Python skills
- Experience working in small start up environments
- Experience with AWS and Databricks or similar platforms
- Experience building data pipelines and ingestion frameworks (API, CDC, streaming)
- Hands-on experience with dbt preferred
- Healthcare or regulated data experience preferred
- Experience with Airflow or Databricks Workflows
Qualifications
Live in the Washington DC area and travel onsite for important meetings.
Skills
- AWS
- Databricks
- dbt
- SQL
- Python
- Data Pipelines
- Change Data Capture (CDC)
- API Ingestion
- Streaming
- Pyspark
- Airflow
- Data Modeling
- Lakehouse
Benefits
Compensation: $160,000 - $180,000
Full Comprehensive Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, PTO, Paid Holiday and Sick Leave if Required by Law.