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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** PAVATI SOLUTIONS LLC
- **Location:** Charlottesville, VA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Database, Databases, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Relational Databases, Database Schema, Data Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Metadata Repositories, SQL Databases, Data Management
- **Published:** August 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9115869/data-engineer

## About the Role

You may be a strong fit if you have:

 * Experience working with databases or structured data
 * Experience with SQL and relational databases
 * Experience managing, organizing, or integrating data
 * Understanding of database schemas and data relationships
 * Experience documenting data or developing data standards
 * Experience working in a classified or government environment
 * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
 * The ability to work closely with both technical and mission users

Experience with data governance, metadata, data catalogs, cloud databases, ETL/ELT, Python, or modern data platforms is a plus.

## Description

Our team is looking for a Data Engineer / Data Management Specialist to support an important national security mission in the Charlottesville area.

The Work

You'll help maintain, organize, improve, and govern data within an important operational environment.

Depending on your background, your work may include:

 * Designing, maintaining, and improving database schemas
 * Managing structured data and data relationships
 * Improving data quality, consistency, and usability
 * Developing and maintaining data standards
 * Managing metadata and data definitions
 * Documenting data sources, schemas, and relationships
 * Helping integrate data from multiple systems
 * Identifying opportunities to improve how data is stored, accessed, and shared
 * Working with engineers, analysts, and mission users to understand how data should be structured and used
 * Supporting data governance and stewardship practices
 * Writing SQL and working with relational databases

We're interested in people who have performed this type of work under different titles.

You might call yourself a Database Engineer, Data Engineer, Data Architect, Data Analyst, Data Steward, Knowledge Manager, or Intelligence Data professional. The title doesn't matter as much as what you do: make complex data more organized, usable, reliable, and accessible.


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