Labor Category: Software Engineer
Position Title: ETL Engineer
Position Level: Level 2 – Expert
Salary: Up to $240,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Herndon VA
Description:
Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.
Currently seeking a detail-oriented and experienced ETL Engineer to join our data engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines and integration processes that enable reliable, timely, and high-quality data delivery across the organization. This role requires strong technical capabilities, a deep understanding of data architecture, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP), large-scale data processing, and search/discovery systems, with the ability to lead technical teams and translate mission needs into scalable, production-ready capabilities that deliver operational impact.
Development will take place in an iterative fashion using Agile development methodology with input from all levels of stakeholders. The candidate must have the ability to communicate with project team members, user community, and leadership to assess changes and demonstrate iterative progress.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines that support data warehouse, analytics, and application needs. Must be experienced with large data sets [hundreds of thousands of records, GB and TB size data sets]
Extract, transform, and load data from various sources into centralized storage solutions.
Design and enhance search and discovery platforms across large volumes of structured and unstructured data
Perform data ingestion, ETL, and integration across enterprise and multi-source environments
Optimize ETL workflows for performance, scalability, and reliability.
Conduct data validation, profiling, and quality checks to ensure accuracy and completeness.
Troubleshoot and resolve data inconsistencies, pipeline failures, or performance bottlenecks.
Build and maintain cloud-native solutions (AWS) aligned to secure and resilient architecture patterns
Partner with mission operators, analysts, and senior stakeholders to define requirements and deliver mission-relevant analytics
Translate mission needs into technical designs, architectures, and implementation roadmaps, ensuring alignment to operational objectives
Deliver clear, compelling visualizations, dashboards, and executive-level briefings that communicate analytic insights and recommendations
Provide technical leadership and mentorship, including hands-on development, code review, and team development
Own delivery of analytic capabilities from concept through deployment, accreditation, and sustainment
Support system accreditation, data governance, and security architecture, ensuring data integrity and compliance within classified environments
Details:
Labor Category: Software Engineer
Position Title: ETL Engineer
Position Level: Level 2 – Expert
Salary: Up to $240,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Herndon VA
Mandatory Requirements:
• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
Minimum 6-8 years working in Linux Operating system with updating the system for efficient parallel processing, understanding memory, storage and processing data at scale
Minimum 6-8 years in Object Oriented programming. Python is preferred software development language
Minimum 6-8 years of demonstrated experience with applications in the Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) environment or an Amazon Web Services cloud environment. Willing to consider substituting C2S if candidate has a minimum 4-6 years of cloud computing technology to include Azure, Oracle, Google, etc.
Minimum 4-6 years of demonstrated (Extract, Transform, Load – ETL) with large structured and unstructured raw data sets. Strong experience with ETL tools such as Informatica, Talend, SSIS, AWS Glue, or Azure Data Factory.
Proficiency in SQL, including complex queries and query optimization.
6-8 Years of experience with AWS platform including understanding EC2, RCS instance types
Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, data modeling, and schema design.
Hands-on experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases.
Experience using version control systems such as Git.
Optional Requirements:
Experience working with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Databricks).
Experience with transformer-based models (e.g., BERT) and modern NLP architectures
Background in document exploitation, e-discovery, or large-scale search platforms
Experience with multi-modal analytics (OCR, image recognition, text + image fusion)
Familiarity with search technologies (Solr, Elasticsearch, Lucene)
Experience with containerization and DevSecOps pipelines (Docker, CI/CD)
Cloudera or similar big data certifications
Experience developing risk scoring, anomaly detection, or predictive analytic models
B4CORP Company Information
B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.
B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.
Compensation:
- Outstanding Salaries
Retirement:
- Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options
– 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary
– Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50) - Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)
Insurance:
- Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
- Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
- Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
- Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
- Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
- Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)
Employee Referral Bonus:
- Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP
Paid Time Off (PTO):
- Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
- Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)
Internal Tracking -NK-364-01
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