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# Jr Data Engineer

- **Company:** ECS Corporate Services, LLC
- **Location:** Springfield, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $104,764.0 - $125,717.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Data as a Services, Information Management, JSON, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Parsing, Cloud Services, Standard Sql, Data Processing, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/58901590-jr-data-engineer

## About the Role

Everforth ECS seeks a Jr Data Engineer to support the development and integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cloud Solutions. The candidate has experience and/or coursework in exploring, mining, parsing, and transforming text and JSON data. The candidate has experience and/or coursework in processing geospatial data. The work is performed in a multidisciplinary small team environment. The candidate is highly motivated and enthusiastic about implementing new technologies where deadlines are important to national security. The candidate will be contributing to a pathfinder program for the Department of Defense (DoD) that has the potential to change the way we gather and share intelligence., Bachelor's Degree in Data Science , Math, Finance, Statistics, Information Management, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or an equivalent field

 * 0-2+ years of working experience in one of the related areas: Data Science, Computer Science or Computer Engineering. Relevant course work may be considered as a substitute for actual experience .

 * Experience with Python and SQL

 * Experience transforming and manipulating data sets

 * Excellent communication, and presentation skills.

## Description

* Participate in technical exchange meetings and discussions with our customers, vendors, and internal team to help coordinate, prioritize, and track datasets supporting AI efforts

 * Work closely with software engineers and architects to extract, transform and standardize data to prepare for ingest into Machine Learning (ML) development environments

 * Support continuous process automation for data ingest

 * Support the integration of ML algorithms for testing and operational deployment

 * Assist with the design and development of data services and pipelines

 * Coordinate with the Project Manager and Data Team to determine data requirements and to serve as the project data advocate

 * Perform multiple tasks simultaneously and successfully under changing priorities and deadlines

 * Help cultivate an environment that promotes customer service, excellence, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork


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