Data Engineer

NewGen

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

Qualifications

  • TS/SCI FSP Clearance
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or related field
  • 6+ years leading delivery teams in a consulting setting
  • 6+ years establishing application architecture frameworks and testing deliverables
  • 5+ years experience in AI environments
  • 5+ years writing client-ready design documents
  • 5+ years in software architecture analysis and delivery
  • 5+ years executing full system development life cycles

Responsibilities

  • Lead data architecture and engineering delivery for AI/ML/GenAI solutions
  • Design and operationalize data foundations for LLM-powered applications
  • Translate use cases into production-ready data pipelines
  • Ensure data governance, quality controls, and monitoring
  • Drive consistent engineering standards and outcomes in client environments
  • Collaborate with data science, ML engineering, and product teams
  • Manage onshore and offshore delivery teams

Benefits

  • Participate in cutting-edge projects in AI/ML/GenAI
  • Opportunity for hands-on technical work combined with team leadership
  • Engagement with a diverse team across data science and engineering
  • Focus on delivering measurable client outcomes
  • Access to continued professional development opportunities through certifications and trainings
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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