Data Engineer
General Dynamics Information Technology3 months ago
Falls Church, VA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$81k - $106k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable end-to-end data pipelines and curated data products for enterprise analytics and agentic AI use cases.
- Integrate structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from enterprise systems and external sources.
- Deliver data services for agentic AI workflows, including APIs, retrieval and indexing, and governed context delivery.
- Implement data quality, observability, and governance practices across data pipelines and products.
- Optimize performance and cost across storage, compute, orchestration, and serving layers.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, AI engineers, and software developers to translate requirements into production solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of experience delivering production-grade data engineering across databases, data integration, data services, and data governance.
- Proficiency in Python or Java and SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with enterprise-scale data architectures and cloud data platforms such as Azure, OCI, or AWS.
- Experience with agentic AI data engineering, retrieval-based AI data foundations, lakehouse architectures, or real-time streaming is preferred.
- Familiarity with document processing, metadata, embeddings, vector or hybrid search, agent workflows, and production data services is preferred.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills in cross-functional enterprise environments.
- US Person status is required.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, wellness, disability, life, and insurance plan options are available.
- 401(k) plan with company matching and pre-tax and post-tax contribution options.
- Paid vacation, sick, personal, holiday, parental, military, bereavement, and jury-duty leave.
- Full-flex work weeks where possible and an award-winning, military-friendly workplace culture.
- Hybrid work arrangement in Falls Church, Virginia, with an expectation of three days per week in the office.
- Scheduled work is 40 hours per week, with 10–25% travel required.
- The role includes an identity verification process using biometrics and virtual interviews requiring the applicant to be on camera.
About General Dynamics Information Technology
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) delivers enterprise IT, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, and software engineering services to U.S. federal agencies, including defense and intelligence organizations. It provides contract-based professional and managed services ranging from network operations and unified communications to training and simulation. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia.