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# Data Platform Engineer

- **Company:** MPR Associates, Inc.
- **Location:** Alexandria, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Engineering, Databases, Data as a Services, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Unstructured Data, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_mpr-1479

## About the Role

Qualifications + U.S. Citizenship is required.
Education + Bachelor's degree in an Engineering Discipline.
Experience + Two (2) or more years of software engineering experience. + Proficiency in C# and Python. + Understanding of database systems and data modeling concepts. + Comfortable working with both structured and unstructured data. + Strong problem-solving skills for both performance and scalability challenges. + Experience building data processing pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows preferred. + Hands-on experience with AWS data services and cloud architecture preferred. + Familiarity with data visualization platforms and reporting systems preferred. + Experience building production applications that process significant volumes. + Experience building user-facing applications with data backends preferred. + Proficiency in C++ preferred.
Skills + The ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies while multitasking . + Ability and interest to stretch beyond current experiences and into new areas of software engineering. + Excellent communication skills, both written and oral. + Ability to work collaboratively across functional teams. + Exceptional time and project management skills. + Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. + Persistent, questioning attitude and ability to accept that in others. + Motivated to expand skills and knowledge, as well as tackle new problem and take on new responsibilities. + Ability to participate in multiple projects and project teams concurrently.