Key skills
DatabricksSQLPythonETL pipelinesCloud platformsData governanceBusiness intelligence toolsStakeholder engagementADVANAmilitary clientsFinancial management dataFederal contracting processesDatabricks certificationcommunicationMentoringAIMLETLELTData EngineeringAnalyticsBIBusiness IntelligencePower BISparkAWSAzureLeadershipCommunication
About this role
Guidehouse is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our Technology AI and Data practice with a dedicated focus on military clients in the Defense & Security segment. This role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and interactive dashboards to help federal clients achieve mission outcomes and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with military clients to understand data architecture, data pipeline and reporting requirements
- Lead the development of ETL pipelines and dashboard integrations using Databricks and Microsoft Power Platform tools (i.e. Power BI)
- Ensure delivery excellence and measurable outcomes across data migration and visualization efforts
- Ensure solutions support auditability, internal controls, and statutory compliance requirements. This includes strict financial data controls
- Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, SQL, and Python
- Develop and optimize dashboards aligned with federal reporting standards, as needed
- Apply AI/ML tools to automate metadata extraction, clustering, and dashboard scripting
- Optimize data pipelines for performance with large data sets for both analytics and transactional load use cases (e.g., OLAP, OLTP). Enable downstream BI via clean data
- Ensure compliance with federal data governance, security, and performance standards
- Design and document enterprise data models, metadata strategies, data lineage frameworks, and other relevant documentation, as needed
- Align data from multiple discrete data sets into a cohesive, interoperable architecture, identifying opportunities for linkages between datasets, normalization, field standardization, etc
- Assist with cleanup of existing data and models, including use of ETL
- Work closely with data architects, analysts, and cloud engineers to deliver integrated solutions
- Support documentation, testing, and deployment of data products
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to reusable frameworks and accelerators
- Contribute to thought leadership and best practice development across the AI & Data team
Requirements:
- Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD 'SECRET' security clearance; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of clearance prior to onboarding with Guidehouse
- Bachelor's degree is required
- TWO (2) or more years of experience in data engineering and dashboard development
- Experience with ADVANA
- Proven experience with Databricks, business intelligence tools, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure.)
- Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, and Spark
- Experience building ETL pipelines and integrating data sources into reporting platforms
- Familiarity with data governance, metadata, and compliance frameworks
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Databricks Data Engineer Associate or Professional certification
- Experience working with military clients
- Experience working with financial management data
- Familiarity with federal contracting and procurement processes