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# Junior Data Engineer (TS/SCI Clearance)

- **Company:** EPOCHGEO, LLC
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $125,000.0 - $135,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Airflow, Databases, System Configuration, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Systems, Python (Programming Language), NoSQL, SQL Databases, Data Processing, High Performance Computing, Data Management, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=74b3a083fc846136

## About the Role

* 1+ years of relevant experience in data engineering or similar.
 * Proficiency using Python, SQL, Apache Airflow (or similar).
 * Experience in designing and implementing data architectures and management systems.
 * Familiarity in database technologies, including SQL, NoSQL, HPC, and experience in selecting and configuring these technologies to optimize data systems.
 * Experience building and maintaining ETL processes and data pipeline management.
 * Experience in optimizing data throughput, query performance, and system responsiveness to support complex data queries and analyses.
 * Experience problem-solving and working collaboratively with data users and other stakeholders.

## Description

* Supporting and maintaining data management systems to ensure efficient storage, access, and use of data across platforms.
 * Collaborating with stakeholders to design and implement data architectures aligned with operational requirements.
 * Designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines and ETL processes to enable reliable, high-performance data processing and access.
 * Evaluating and selecting appropriate database and processing technologies (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, HPC) based on data and query requirements.
 * Ensuring effective data integration across systems to support analysis and decision-making.

Additional:

 * Must hold a TS/SCI clearance and be willing to submit for a CI Poly


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