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# Principal Data Engineer - Data Platform - Washington, DC, Silver Spring, MD, Philadelphia, PA, Wilmington, DE, Fairfax, VA

- **Company:** TechniPros, LLC
- **Location:** Silver Spring, MD, United States
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Cloud Engineering, Data Architecture, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Meta-Data Management, Standard Sql, Enterprise Data Management, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Microsoft Fabric, Data Lakes, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Data Lakehouse, Virtual Agents, Terraform, Stream Processing, Data Pipelines, Docker, Databricks
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us3ee66524d808d083e26982693d4c4632

## About the Role

* Python
 * SQL
 * Databricks
 * Spark
 * Kafka
 * Snowflake
 * dbt
 * Apache Iceberg
 * Delta Lake
 * Airflow
 * Kubernetes
 * Docker
 * Terraform
 * Data Mesh
 * Data Lakehouse

Preferred Skills

 * Microsoft Fabric
 * AWS
 * Azure
 * GCP
 * Unity Catalog
 * AI Data Pipelines

## Description

We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer to architect enterprise-scale data platforms supporting AI, Machine Learning, analytics, and real-time data processing. The ideal candidate should possess deep expertise in distributed systems, modern data architecture, and cloud-native engineering., * Architect enterprise data platforms.

 * Design Data Lakehouse architecture.
 * Build real-time streaming solutions.
 * Develop enterprise data APIs.
 * Design Data Mesh architecture.
 * Implement enterprise metadata management.
 * Build scalable cloud-native data services.
 * Optimize large-scale data processing.
 * Mentor engineering teams.
 * Define enterprise data engineering standards., Distinguished AI Engineer - Agentic AI Platform (Remote Eligible) At Capital One, we are creating responsible and reliable AI systems, changing banking for good. For years, Capital…
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