strategic Data Engineer

MetaPhase is seeking an experienced and strategic Data Engineer with 7+ years of experience to provide hands-on technical expertise with data architecture, data modeling, and data engineering tasks in an Azure environment. This role will provide both hands-on technical leadership and people management for a team of three data engineers supporting enterprise-wide data initiatives. In addition, the ideal candidate will lead database development work and help coordinate tasks with the web developers to ensure a robust integrated solution is built.

What You Will Be Doing

• Act as a servant leader and mentor a lean high performing team of data professionals.
• Manage workload prioritization, sprint planning, and delivery oversight for database related tasks.
• Maintain and enhance data models (ERDs), Data Dictionaries (DD), Source-to-Target mappings (STM) and other data related documentation to sustain existing operations while building new analytical capabilities.
• Design, develop and maintain scripts for Azure SQL database that create/modify database objects (tables, views, constraints, triggers) and data integration routines (ETL) that support change data capture.
• Design, develop and maintain Azure Data Factory object and components, Elastic Job Agents and Azure Functions that support database activities.
• Leverage Python and PowerShell as needed for automation and data cleaning.
• Review database deployment plans for scheduled releases and provide feedback.
• Peer review database code to provide feedback and coach team members.
• Create and maintain other technical documentation relating to data architecture.
• Troubleshoot or assist team members with troubleshooting data issues to identify root causes, propose recommendations, and implement solutions that will improve data availability, increase data quality, and optimize performance.
• Coordinate and act as a liaison with other groups including OCIO, Azure DBAs and Engineers
• Managing Power BI workspaces and on-premises MS data gateways

• A minimum of 7+ years of hands-on experience with database architecture, design, development, deployment, preferably in Azure environments.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification required; candidates must possess an active CSM certification upon hire or obtain certification immediately following employment.
• Data modeling experience with both transactional and analytical data stores.
• Data integration experience with Python and Azure Data Factory (ADF), from design to implementation.
• Report design, development, and deployment experience with Microsoft Power BI.
• Expert in performance-tuning databases, SQL scripts, and clean coding techniques.
• Team leadership experience.

What Sets You Apart (Preferred)

• Consulting experience in a federal government environment.
• Data architecture experience on an enterprise scale, integrating multiple systems with different methods to accommodate various data structures and access protocols.
• Demonstrated proficiency through Microsoft Azure Data & AI certifications, including certifications such as DP-700, DP-300, AZ-305, DP-420, and/or DP-100., * Bachelor’s degree in data analytics engineering, computer science, or a related technical field required; a Master’s degree is preferred.

Clearance Level

• Ability to Obtain a Public Trust

• U.S. Citizenship required (NO EXCEPTIONS)

At MetaPhase, we believe Quirky is Cool and being authentic is the only way to be! We take the work we do very seriously and do a lot of important mission-focused work for our clients. We are individuals with different passions and strengths who take as much joy in the work we do as from those we work with. Today, we have a team that is invested in creating new solutions that lean forward, challenge the status quo, but also reflect our intimate knowledge of our customers’ business. Over the years we have fostered a culture in which we are united by shared values-passion, solidarity, generosity, curiosity, and boldness-and these come alive in the work we do and how we do it.

Together, we know our people are our difference-for our clients and our colleagues.

Are you ready to:

• Work alongside a dedicated and diverse set of people to offer honest advice and practical guidance to our clients?
• Learn and grow by taking advantage of every opportunity available to you?
• Join a company which prides itself on its shared values and inclusive culture?

• Be the difference and make it happen?, About MetaPhase Consulting MetaPhase Consulting is different with a purpose - demonstrating a new approach to the industry that puts employees and culture first! We continue to be recognized by industry as one of the fastest growing and most impactful consultancies in the nation, and are aggressively hiring to grow our team: Fastest Growing

• Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Company - 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Washington Technology Fast 50 Award - 2020, 2021
• Financial Times America’s Fastest Growing Companies - 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026

Best Places to Work

• USA TODAY Top Workplaces - 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Washington Post Best Places to Work - 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Washington’s Business Journal’s Best Places to Work - 2021, 2022
• Virginia Businesses Best Place to Work - 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• Northern Virginia Technology Council Top 100 Technology Firms - 2020

Company & Individual Awards

• 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 Moxie Award Finalist
• 2022 SECAF Government Contractor Awards ($27.5 to $50 Million in Revenue)
• 2022 FedHealth IT and G2XChange Women in in Leadership Awards - Beth Angerman
• 2022 George Mason University Prominent Patriots in Business - Fred Costa
• 2022 TiE DC Capital ELITE Award
• 2023, 2024, 2025 Elev8 Engage GovCon Finalist
• 2023, 2024 Maryland Tech Council ICON Awards Finalist for Government Contracting Company of the Year: Over $50 Million
• 2023 Greater Washington Government Contractor of the Year ($25 to $75 million) Awards Finalist
• 2024 Consulting Magazine Tech Innovator
• 2025 Northern Virginia Technology Council Tech100 Company
• 2026 FORUM Innovation Awards - ChallengeAI by Brian Funk (CTO)
• 2026 FORUM Disruptive Tech Change Agent - Brian Funk (CTO)
• 2026 Orange Slices Elev8[X] Finalist