Data Engineer

Nakupuna Companies • Mechanicsburg, PA

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About The Position

Nakupuna Solutions is looking for a Data Engineer designs, builds, and maintains data pipelines and data warehouse infrastructure to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure data integration that supports reporting and analytics. This is a mid-level role expected to execute data integration work independently and escalate complex issues to senior engineering as needed. This effort supports the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP).

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines using Python and SQL.
• Working knowledge of data warehouse concepts, schema design, and performance optimization.
• Experience implementing data quality checks, logging, and monitoring to detect pipeline failures and data anomalies.
• Ability to troubleshoot and remediate data discrepancies and integration issues across multiple source systems.
• Experience collaborating with BI developers and analysts to validate transformations and definitions.
• This position requires a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen .
• Must have an active Secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of data engineering experience designing ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehouse architecture
• Advanced SQL skills (PostgreSQL, Redshift)
• Experience with Python-based ETL development and automation
• Familiarity with Salesforce data models is preferred
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and data quality checks

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Python and SQL to ingest data from Salesforce Education Cloud, flat files, and API endpoints into the data warehouse
• Implement robust error handling, logging, and automated monitoring to detect and track data quality issues
• Define schemas and curate unified student datasets with targeted completeness and accuracy for downstream reporting and modeling
• Optimize AWS Redshift and PostgreSQL performance through tuning, query optimization, and storage management
• Serve as escalation point for complex data discrepancies and pipeline failures; provide root-cause analysis and permanent fixes
• Coordinate with analysts and BI developers to validate transformations and resolve mismatches

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees