Data Engineer IV

Apply Logic is a fast-paced Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small-Business, headquartered in Vienna, VA. Our people are our greatest asset, and our company culture is grounded on that belief. We offer challenging and interesting work in a friendly and supportive environment. Through prime and subcontracts, we deliver best-in-class expertise to solve complex technical problems.

We’re looking for a talented Data Engineer IV to join our team supporting a complex Federal Government customer in Northern Virginia (Alexandria/Falls Church area). This individual will serve as a senior technical resource responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting complex enterprise data solutions. You will work across data infrastructure, databases, data pipelines, ETL/ELT, and system integration while providing technical leadership to ensure data environments are reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient.

• Onsite – Northern Virginia (Alexandria/Falls Church area)

Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain Government security clearance.

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and optimization of enterprise data infrastructure and data engineering solutions.
• Provide senior technical expertise for enterprise databases, data platforms, ETL/ELT processes, data pipelines, and data integration environments.
• Design and oversee complex data pipelines and integration solutions supporting multiple systems, applications, and data sources.
• Develop and optimize advanced SQL queries, stored procedures, database objects, and data processing solutions.
• Establish technical approaches and best practices for data ingestion, transformation, integration, storage, and processing.
• Lead the troubleshooting and resolution of complex and high-impact issues involving databases, data pipelines, integrations, and enterprise data infrastructure.
• Conduct root-cause analysis of complex technical issues and develop sustainable solutions to improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Evaluate existing data environments and recommend improvements to architecture, performance, automation, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership for data migration, transformation, integration, and modernization initiatives.
• Develop and implement strategies for monitoring data pipelines, database environments, and data processing activities.
• Establish and enforce standards for data engineering development, testing, deployment, documentation, and operational support.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, database administrators, analysts, governance teams, and business stakeholders to develop enterprise data solutions.
• Translate complex technical and business requirements into scalable and sustainable data engineering solutions.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to Data Engineers and other technical staff.
• Review technical designs, code, data models, integration approaches, and implementation plans for quality and adherence to established standards.
• Identify opportunities to automate data processes, improve operational efficiency, and reduce manual intervention.
• Develop and maintain technical architecture documentation, data flows, integration patterns, standards, and operational procedures.
• Support security, data governance, configuration management, change management, and compliance requirements applicable to enterprise data environments.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in data engineering, database engineering, data integration, ETL/ELT, enterprise data infrastructure, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and experience working with enterprise relational database platforms.
• Extensive experience designing, developing, and troubleshooting…