Data Engineer (Power BI)

This remote role is based in Alexandria, VA and requires residency in the Washington, DC metro area. CACI offers a competitive salary range of USD 86,600 to 181,800 per year, a comprehensive benefits package, and a culture that emphasizes collaboration, impact, and ongoing professional growth. The position centers on designing and sustaining business intelligence tools and data pipelines to deliver health insights for STF, enabling informed decisions across S&T programs.

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Wellness
• Financial
• Retirement
• Family support
• Continuing education
• Time off benefits
• Learning and development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and select the optimal technology mix for the infrastructure dashboard data platform, including databases, processing frameworks, and orchestration tools.
• Establish data storage solutions with an emphasis on long-term scalability.
• Ingest live data from multi-domain sources via API or other appropriate mechanisms.
• Collaborate with domain experts to understand RDT&E data being ingested and implement modeling controls for anomalies and structural differences.
• Build a robust data pipeline to load and transform data into a STF-ready model, accounting for near-term and long-term data goals.
• Define and enforce data governance policies, including data quality standards, lineage tracking, and metadata management; communicate these policies to analysts and stakeholders.
• Monitor and optimize database and data model performance and security; conduct periodic pipeline health checks and data validity testing.
• Partner with data stakeholders and the analytics team to ensure data and architecture meet the needs of requested visualizations and analyses.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for data architecture, data models, pipeline jobs, and related processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in database and dashboard development.
• Strong experience with databases, data processing frameworks, and orchestration tools.
• Proficiency in API integration and data ingestion from various sources.
• Experience with data modeling, ETL processes, and data pipeline development.
• Expert proficiency in PowerBI
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Technologies

• PowerBI