What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer (Mid) position at SMX Services & Consulting, Inc.?
Data Engineer (Mid) — On-Site
Clearance: Ability to obtain/maintain Public Trust (IRS)
Work Location: On-site,
authorized work sites
IRS Main Building — 1111 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20224.
IRS New Carrollton Federal Building (NCFB) — 5000 Ellin Rd, Lanham, MD 20706.
IRS Ogden Office — 2484 Washington Blvd, Ste 200, Ogden, UT 84401.
IRS Farmers Branch Office — 4050 Alpha Rd, Farmers Branch, TX 75244.
Work Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30a-5:30p
Contract Term: Anticipated 12-month base; options/surge may be exercised; contingent on award.
Candidate Pay: $40.00 - $45.84/hr
You'll build reliable, scalable data pipelines and models to power analytics, APIs, and ML workloads in a secure federal environment.
What you'll doDesign, implement, and operate ETL/ELT pipelines (e.g., Airflow, dbt, Spark, Kafka)
Model data for analytics and application consumption; enforce data quality & lineage
Tune warehouses/lakes (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Delta/Lakehouse)
Automate CI/CD for data workflows; implement monitoring and cost controls
Partner with application and ML teams to deliver governed, production-ready datasets
3-5 years data engineering experience in production environments
Strong SQL and one scripting language (Python preferred)
Hands-on with at least one orchestrator (Airflow/Prefect) and one transformation tool (dbt/Spark)
Familiarity with cloud data services (AWS/GCP/Azure), object storage, and IAM
Streaming pipelines (Kafka/Kinesis/PubSub), schema registry, CDC
Data versioning (DVC/LakeFS), great expectations or similar for quality
Security and privacy controls; PII handling and encryption at rest/in transit
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data, or related field
Equivalent experience may substitute for degree
authorized work sitesIRS Main Building — 1111 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20224.
IRS New Carrollton Federal Building (NCFB) — 5000 Ellin Rd, Lanham, MD 20706.
IRS Ogden Office — 2484 Washington Blvd, Ste 200, Ogden, UT 84401.
IRS Farmers Branch Office — 4050 Alpha Rd, Farmers Branch, TX 75244.
Salary : $40 - $46