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Data Engineer - Sr

Nalley Consulting
Charlottesville, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/4/2026

Join the mission on the Nalley Consulting team.

Position: Data Engineer
LCAT: Senior
Location: Charlottesville, VA

Required clearance: TS/SCI and current CI poly

Required experience and education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; 
​CompTIA Security   certification

Description

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ou’ll use your expertise to help build advanced technology solutions and lead data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You’ll guide data engineering activities by overseeing the development and deployment of pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful.

You’ll mentor a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment. You’ll use your expertise in analytical exploration and data examination while you oversee the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms for your clients. 

Duties

This role encompasses both Data Science and Data Engineering disciplines and requires raw coding experience without AI assisted IDEs. 
Duties typically include:  

  • Conducting data analytics, data engineering, data mining, exploratory analysis, predicative analysis, and statistical analysis, and uses scientific techniques to correlate data into graphical, written, visual and verbal narrative products, enabling more informed analytic decisions.
  • Proactively retrieving information from various sources, analyzes it for better understanding about the data set, and builds AI tools that automate certain processes. Creating various ML-based tools or processes such as recommendation engines or automated lead scoring systems. 
  • Performing statistical analysis, applies data mining techniques, and builds high quality prediction systems. 
  • ​Utilizing skills in data visualization and graphical applications, including Microsoft Office (Power BI) and Tableau; major data science languages, such as R and Python; managing and margining of disparate data sources, preferably through Python, or SQL; statistical analysis; and data mining algorithms. 
  • Utilizing experience with large data Multi-INT analytics, ML, and automated predicative analytics. 

Required qualifications

  • 3 years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining complex data applications 
  • ​3 years of experience with raw coding of Python or Java, PostgreSQL or similar databases 
  • ​3 years of experience developing code for data manipulation, data analysis, or data modeling 
  • ​Experience creating and integrating code for retrieving, parsing, and processing data across multiple systems or applications 
  • ​Experience developing scripts and programs for converting various types of data into usable formats and supporting project teams to scale, monitor, and operate data platforms in support of specific mission goals 
  • ​Experience in the development of algorithms leveraging Python and SQL 
  • ​Experience with Python data science and visualization packages 
  • ​Experience with leading the development of solutions to complex problems 
  • ​Experience working within a TS environment with onsite development tools 
  • ​Experience with database administration or data analytics 
  • ​Experience with structured and unstructured data 
  • ​CompTIA Security certification
Desired qualifications
  • 12 years of experience in Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes 
  • 7 years of experience designing, developing, operationalizing, and maintaining complex data applications 
  • ​7 years of experience with raw coding of Python or Java, PostgreSQL or similar databases 
  • ​7 years of experience developing code for data manipulation, data analysis, or data modeling 
  • ​3 years of experience with AI and ML implementation and development 
  • ​Experience with DevSecOps tools, including GitHub 
  • ​Experience working within the Intel Community 
  • ​Experience with a cloud environment, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud  
  • ​Experience with Streamlit, Tkinter 
  • ​Experience with Agile software development  

ABOUT NALLEY CONSULTING

Nalley Consulting is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business working with prime partners to staff Department of Defense and Intelligence Community positions. Created by a U.S. Navy intelligence veteran, Nalley Consulting has grown to include multiple IDIQ vehicles in several states.

Nalley Consulting fringe benefits include:

  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • PTO
  • 11 paid federal holidays
  • Tuition assistance
  • Paid military-reserve leave
  • Paid parental leave for birth or adoption
  • 401k matching up to 5 percent of the base salary
  • Flex time
  • Company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.

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