Data Engineer (2026-0179)
Acclaim Technical Services3 months ago
Chantilly, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$250k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable backend services and data ingestion solutions.
- Build and maintain ETL workflows, data pipelines, reusable APIs, and services for ingesting, processing, and managing data.
- Perform data modeling, data mapping, and large-scale file manipulation.
- Optimize applications for speed and scalability.
- Collaborate across disciplines in an Agile environment with minimal supervision.
- Drive innovation and process improvement through hands-on development.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.
- At least five years of related software engineering experience.
- Current TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
- Knowledge of NodeJS or Python and strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of Large Language Models and using them to enrich data.
- Solid experience building and maintaining ETL workflows and data pipelines.
- Familiarity with NoSQL datastores, MCP Servers, and API management.
- Preferred experience with NiFi, Flask application development, Claude Code, Codex, NemoClaw, Aider, Kiro, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, or other AI harnesses.
- Preferred familiarity with MLOps, Elastic, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, cloud-based and distributed architectures, Amazon Web Services or another cloud provider, graph databases such as Janus/Cassandra, and graph query languages.
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
- Healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time-off benefits.
- Competitive compensation, career growth, and learning and development opportunities.
- Flexibility to balance quality work and personal lives.
About Acclaim Technical Services
Acclaim Technical Services provides language, intelligence, and technology services to U.S. federal and national security agencies, spanning translation, interpretation, document exploitation, geolocation, data visualization, and systems integration. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Reston, VA, it operates as an employee‑owned ESOP and privately held government contractor. The company supports missions across 100+ languages and staffs cleared roles within the intelligence community.