Senior Data Engineer
Job Location:
Reston, VA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Posted:
8 September 2026 (5 hours ago)
Application Deadline:
6 December 2026
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.
Job Title:Senior Data Engineer
Location(s):Reston VA
In this role you will:
Design & Implementation (70%)
Job Title:Senior Data Engineer
Location(s):Reston VA
In this role you will:
Design & Implementation (70%)
- Incorporate Cloud technologies on new application development to include microservices SQL and AWS services such as Lambda S3 SQS SNS DynamoDB Quicksight AWS Redshift and Opensearch
- Create and maintain automated functional and system tests to replicate complex real-world scenarios
- Develop code and our test automation suite to support security features and technical scoping ensuring that features deliver the expected functionality with high quality
- Ensure that continuous integration is performed on the application source code and constantly seek to enhance the continuous integration methods of the development team to ensure extremely high quality of code
- Support and coordinate with other Engineers Architects and teams such as User Experience and/or infrastructure teams
Strategy & Communication (20%)
- Implement cloud-first architectural solutions and best practices
- Participate in agile scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning Grooming Daily SCRUM Demo) and contribute to team deliverables
- Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts
Team Coordination (10%)
- Mentor team members by designing and developing training materials to communicate the current and future product architecture
- Mentor technical staff by providing feedback of code and other design artifacts
About You
You have:
You have:
- Ideally 6 years of software development experience in a production environment
- Expertise writing and optimizing complex SQL queries for data extraction transformation and reporting (e.g. SELECT JOIN GROUP BY HAVING WINDOW functions)
- Expertise integrating Redshift Serverless with AWS services such as S3 Glue Lambda Athena DynamoDB and Kinesis BI tools like Tableau Quicksight or Looker for real-time analytics and dashboards
- Expertise building serverless ETL pipelines with Lambda to automate data ingestion and transformation into Redshift
- Experience with Python required; React and nice to have
- Experience building event-driven cloud-based serverless applications and deploying to AWS
- Technical knowledge of Cloud Computing DevOps and Microservices
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
- Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good customer working relationships
- Exceptional analytical conceptual and problem-solving abilities
- Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.
Required Experience:
Senior IC