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Scale AIScale AIWashington, DC

Senior Data Engineer, Public Sector

Build analytical and BI infrastructure for Scale's Public Sector unit. Develop scalable data pipelines, models, warehouses, and quality tests from ambiguous processes to enable decision-making; requires 5+ years experience, SQL mastery, Python/R, DBT, and active Secret clearance.

150k – 259k
On-site5+ YOEData Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build Scale's analytical and business-intelligence infrastructure.
  • Understand, mine, aggregate, and expose data across the Public Sector business unit to support decision-making and data exploration.
  • Implement data warehouse, data mart, and business intelligence reporting environments; help users transition workflows.
  • Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams (operations, finance, engineering) to solve complex problems and develop sustainable, scalable data solutions.
  • Drive development of pipelines that provide single-source-of-truth foundational accuracy.
  • Continually improve ongoing data pipelines and simplify self-service support for business stakeholders.
  • Perform regular system audits and create data quality tests to ensure complete and accurate reporting.
  • Develop repeatable, scalable analytical solutions such as data models, improved pipelines, or better underlying tables.

Requirements

  • Active Secret security clearance (Top Secret preferred).
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience in a role requiring application of data modeling and analytic skills.
  • Ability to create extensible and scalable data schema and pipelines that lay the foundation for downstream analysis.
  • Mastery of SQL and relational databases.
  • Experience with programming languages (e.g., Python/R).
  • Experience building a reliable transformation layer and pipelines from ambiguous business processes using tools such as DBT.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Top Secret clearance preferred.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Base salary range for Washington, DC: $150,400–$259,000.
  • Eligible for equity (subject to Board approval).
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Retirement benefits.
  • Learning and development stipend.
  • Generous PTO.
  • Possible commuter stipend and other benefits.

Skills

SQLPythonRdbtData ModelingData PipelinesData WarehouseRelational DatabasesData Quality Testing
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