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Data Engineer (Border Security)

Navigant Consulting
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 4/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/25/2026
Job Family:
Data Engineering & Architecture Consulting

Travel Required:
Up to 25%

Clearance Required:
Active Public Trust

What You Will Do:
The Border Security Data Engineer will join a dynamic team supporting U.S Federal border security customers. In this role, the candidate will collect, transform, integrate, and analyze data to. develop integrated data models, generate reports and analyses for key senior leaders and deploy dynamic analytical solutions.
  • Develop integrated data pipelines and models to measure program performance and report on progress
  • Develop and maintain data governance documentation, tools, and templates.
  • Coordinate with non-technical users to gather requirements.
  • Develop intuitive, attractive, and interactive data visualizations using large data sets to create dashboards, using tools such as Tableau and Power BI, for a diverse set of users with varying technical capabilities.
  • Request, document, report, and analyze data, and where applicable, create tools and resources to support data and reporting.
  • Support key mission clients within the Washington DC Metro region at client sites

What You Will Need:
  • An ACTIVE and MAINTAINED CBP PUBLIC TRUST.
  • Bachelor's degree obtained
  • Three (3 ) years of experience in data engineering, data visualization, data integration and/or database management
  • Demonstrated ability to perform data quality management and integration to ensure accurate and usable datasets using querying or data engineering software tools, such as SQL, Python, R, etc.
  • Experience developing transformative data integration solutions that transform law enforcement work, workforces, and workplaces through innovation, assets and analytics for success through evolution
  • Experience using business intelligence tools Tableau and/or Power BI to visualize large data sets.
  • Experience developing and implementing a resiliency strategy, including data visualization tailored for law enforcement.

What Would Be Nice To Have:
  • Proficiency in querying and joining acquisition, programming and transactional datasets
  • Experience delivering transformation efforts at DHS
  • Proficiency in data wrangling and analysis using Python.
  • Proficiency developing dashboards using Tableau or Power BI.
  • Direct Experience supporting CBP Acquisition or Technology programs within the Office of Field Operations or the United States Border Patrol

The annual salary range for this position is $85,000.00-$141,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:
  • Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
  • Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
  • Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
  • Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Basic Life & Supplemental Life
  • Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
  • Student Loan PayDown
  • Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
  • Skills Development & Certifications
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
  • Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
  • Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

If you have visited our website for information about employment opportunities, or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1- or via email at All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodation.

All communication regarding recruitment for a Guidehouse position will be sent from Guidehouse email domains including @guidehouse.com or Correspondence received by an applicant from any other domain should be considered unauthorized and will not be honored by Guidehouse. Note that Guidehouse will never charge a fee or require a money transfer at any stage of the recruitment process and does not collect fees from educational institutions for participation in a recruitment event. Never provide your banking information to a third party purporting to need that information to proceed in the hiring process.

If any person or organization demands money related to a job opportunity with Guidehouse, please report the matter to Guidehouse's Ethics Hotline. If you want to check the validity of correspondence you have received, please contact Guidehouse is not responsible for losses incurred (monetary or otherwise) from an applicant's dealings with unauthorized third parties.

Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

Salary : $85,000 - $141,000

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