Data Automation Engineer

*NOT OPEN TO C2C OR W2 REFERRALS AT THIS TIME*

Position: Data Automation Engineer

Location: This is a fully remote, teleworking position with potential for Quarterly Travel to Gaithersburg, MD / Washington D.C. metro area on special occasions.

Public Trust (OR willing to obtain, MUST be a U.S. Citizen)

Job Description

Seeking a Data Automation Engineer to design and implement innovative, AI-driven automation solutions across AWS and Azure hybrid environments. You will be responsible for building intelligent, scalable data pipelines and automations that integrate cloud services, enterprise tools, and Generative AI to support mission-critical analytics, reporting, and customer engagement platforms. Ideal candidate is mission focused, delivery oriented, applies critical thinking to create innovative functions and solve technical issues.

In this role, you will:

• Design and maintain data pipelines in AWS using S3, RDS/SQL Server, Glue, Lambda, EMR, DynamoDB, and Step Functions.
• Develop ETL/ELT processes to move data from multiple data systems including DynamoDB ? SQL Server (AWS) and between AWS ? Azure SQL systems.
• Integrate AWS Connect CRM data into the enterprise data pipeline for analytics and operational reporting.
• Engineer, enhance ingestion pipelines with Apache Spark, Flume, Kafka for real-time and batch processing into Apache Solr, AWS Open Search platforms.
• Leverage Generative AI services and Frameworks (AWS Bedrock, Amazon Q, Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain) to:
• Create automated processes for vector generation and embeddings from unstructured data.
• Automate data quality checks, metadata tagging, and lineage tracking.
• Enhance ingestion/ETL with LLM-assisted transformation and anomaly detection.
• Build conversational BI interfaces that allow natural language access to Solr and SQL data.
• Develop AI-powered copilots for pipeline monitoring and automated troubleshooting.
• Implement SQL Server stored procedures, indexing, query optimization, profiling, and execution plan tuning to maximize performance.
• Apply CI/CD best practices using GitHub, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps for both data pipelines and GenAI model integration.
• Ensure security and compliance through IAM, KMS encryption, VPC isolation, RBAC, and firewalls.
• Support Agile DevOps processes with sprint-based delivery of pipeline and AI-enabled features.

Required Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of data engineering, automation experiences.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, SSIS, Python, Spark, Bash, Power shell, AWS/Azure CLIs.
• Experience with AWS services like S3, RDS/SQL Server, Glue, Lambda, EMR, DynamoDB.
• Familiarity with Apache Flume, Kafka, Solr for large-scale data ingestion and search.
• Familiarity with LLM, Gen AI frameworks using AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI or open source platform, tools.
• Experience with integrating REST API calls in data pipelines and workflows.
• Familiarity with JIRA, GitHub / Azure DevOps / Jenkins for SDLC and CI/CD automation.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills in SQL, Spark or other data engineering solutions.
• Experience operationalizing Generative AI (GenAI Ops) pipelines, including model deployment, monitoring, retraining, and lifecycle management for LLMs and AI-enabled data workflows.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to obtain Federal government Public Trust clearance.

Preferred (plus):

• Certifications: AWS Data Engineer, AWS AI/ML Specialty, Azure AI Engineer, Databricks certified Data Engineer.
• Experience implementing RAG pipelines, embeddings, and vector search with Solr, OpenSearch, FAISS, Pinecone, or Pgvector/SQL server vector types.
• Experience with GenAI powered coding tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, VS Code.
• Experience with multi-cloud data integration (AWS ? Azure SQL).
• Familiarity with Microsoft BizTalk and SSIS for SQL Server ETL workflows.
• Knowledge of data lineage/governance tools (Purview, Unity Catalog, AWS Glue Catalog).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/CloudFormation, Bicep) for automated deployments.
• Experience with compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, HIPAA).