Ignite Digital Services ยท 14 hours ago
Data Engineer
Charleston, SC
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expIgnite Digital Services is a fast-growing digital transformation company serving the national security sector. The Data Engineer will design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and processing solutions for U.S. Government programs, focusing on building reliable and secure data workflows for analytics and decision-making.
Business DevelopmentConsultingData Integration
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain end-to-end data pipelines to ingest, transform, validate, and publish data from multiple enterprise and operational data sources
Implement data processing workflows to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and availability for downstream reporting and analytics
Design and maintain datasets that support dashboards, reports, and operational tools
Integrate data from financial, program management, and operational systems
Cleanse, normalize, and validate data to meet quality and reporting requirements
Perform record-level validation and reconciliation across source systems
Support identity and reference data validation using DoD enterprise data sources (e.g., EDIPI via GDS)
Monitor and maintain data pipelines to ensure reliability and timely delivery
Troubleshoot data quality, performance, and integration issues
Update and maintain datasets used in mission-critical applications
Provide analytics-ready datasets to support reporting and dashboard development
Support financial and operational reporting requirements through accurate data modeling and pipeline execution
Respond to ad hoc data requests from program and government stakeholders
Implement data solutions aligned with Performance Work Statement (PWS) requirements
Produce technical documentation describing data sources, transformations, and outputs
Support auditability and traceability of data used in government reporting
Qualification
Required
Secret clearance (active or ability to obtain clearance)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field
5+ years of experience in data engineering, data analysis, or software development roles
Strong experience developing data pipelines using Python and SQL
Experience working with enterprise data systems in regulated or government environments
Strong understanding of data quality, validation, and transformation techniques
Preferred
Master's degree in Data Science or related field
Experience supporting DoD or Federal civilian agency programs
Familiarity with financial, acquisition, or operational data domains
Experience working with legacy systems or limited-API environments
Benefits
Competitive pay and benefits, including PTO
Education stipends and referral bonuses
Strong emphasis on volunteer and community engagement
Company
Ignite Digital Services
Ignite Digital Services is a team of agile, effective leaders deploying digital solutions and proven methodologies to ignite business transformation.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Chiquita Andrade
Operations Business Partner
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