# Data Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Falls Church, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $81,349 - $105,800
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Data Engineer at GDIT, you'll power innovation to drive mission impact and grow your expertise to power your career forward.

We are a fast-growing AI and Data team within the Global CIO organization at GDIT. We design and deliver enterprise-grade solutions that integrate AI, data, and human-AI collaboration workflows across key business functions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design, build, and operate scalable end-to-end data pipelines and curated data products that support enterprise analytics and agentic AI use cases

- Integrate data from enterprise systems and external sources, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

- Deliver reliable data services for agentic AI workflows, including APIs, retrieval/indexing, and governed context delivery for AI agents

- Implement data quality, observability, and governance best practices across data pipelines and products

- Optimize performance and cost across storage, compute, orchestration, and serving layers

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, AI engineers, and software developers, to translate requirements into production solutions

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Data Science, or a related field

- 2+ years of experience delivering production-grade data engineering across databases, data integration, data services, and data governance

- Proficiency in programming languages (Python or Java) and databases (SQL and NoSQL)

- Experience with enterprise-scale data architectures and cloud data platforms such as Azure (preferred), OCI, or AWS

- Strong collaboration and communication skills in cross-functional enterprise environments

**Preferred Skills and Abilities:**

- Experience delivering data engineering for agentic AI applications

- Experience with retrieval-based AI data foundations (document processing, metadata, embeddings, vector or hybrid search)

- Familiarity with agent workflows and how agents interact with data services and tools in production

- Experience with lakehouse architectures and cloud data platforms such as Azure (preferred), OCI (preferred), or AWS

- Experience in real-time streaming applications or other high-velocity solutions

- Experience leveraging AI tools to improve data engineering productivity and quality in coding, testing, and documentation

**Benefits:**

- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities

- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals

- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off

- Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home

- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Data Governance
- Unstructured Data

### Nice to have
- Azure
- OCI
- AWS
- Java

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