Data Engineer

NewGen

$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • TS/SCI FSP Clearance
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field
  • 6+ years leading delivery teams in a consulting environment
  • 6+ years defining application architecture frameworks and gathering non-functional requirements
  • 5+ years working in an AI environment
  • 5+ years translating requirements into design documents
  • 5+ years in software application architecture and full system development life cycle execution

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of data architecture supporting AI/ML solutions
  • Ensure data integrity, security, and observability throughout the data lifecycle
  • Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to turn use cases into production pipelines
  • Operationalize data foundations for LLM applications like RAG and vector search
  • Establish strong governance and quality controls for data management
  • Drive consistent engineering standards and measure outcomes in client environments
  • Develop team capabilities in data engineering and architecture

Benefits

  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools in AI/ML
  • Opportunities for professional development and certifications
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
  • Flexibility in working with onshore and offshore teams
  • Engagement in innovative projects with measurable impact
Full Job Description
The Data Engineer will lead the data architecture and engineering delivery that enables AI/ML/GenAI solutions, ensuring data is trusted, secure, observable, and scalable from ingestion through consumption. You will design and operationalize modern data and retrieval foundations to support LLM-powered applications including patterns such as RAG, embeddings, vector search, and governed access to structured and unstructured data. You will be partnering with a team working with data science, ML engineering, and product stakeholders to translate use cases into production-ready pipelines and platforms with strong data governance, lineage, quality controls, and monitoring. This role blends hands-on technical ability with delivery management and team development, driving consistent engineering standards and measurable outcomes in client environments.

Requirements
  • TS/SCI FSP Clearance
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Information Systems or related field
  • 6+ years of consulting experience leading delivery teams, including onshore and offshore team members
  • 6+ years of experience gathering non-functional requirements and defining application architecture frameworks, including validation and testing deliverables
  • 5+ years of experience working in an AI environment
  • 5+ years of experience translating requirements into client ready design documents
  • 5+ years of experience in software application architecture analysis, design, and delivery
  • 5+ years of experience executing full system development life cycle implementations
Desired Skills
  • Certifications in AI/ML technologies and Cloud platforms, such as AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty, Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Azure AI Engineer, Azure Data Scientist, or Azure Solutions Architect
  • 5 + years of experience in Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning
  • 5+ years of experience in Generative AI/LLMs, preferably experienced in delivering and productionizing
  • 5+ years of experience in machine learning model development, natural language processing, and data analysis; Experienced in Supervised and Unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model training, and deployment
  • 5+ year of experience in implementing cloud-based AI/ML workloads on any of AWS, Microsoft and Azure

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