Data Engineering Associate Consultant (Graduating Dec 2025 - Summer 2026)

CapTech Consulting • Richmond, VA

23h • Hybrid

About The Position

CapTech is an award-winning consulting firm that collaborates with clients to achieve what’s possible through the power of technology. At CapTech, we’re passionate about the work we do and the results we achieve for our clients. From the outset, our founders shared a collective passion to create a consultancy centered on strong relationships that would stand the test of time. Today we work alongside clients that include Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized enterprises, and government agencies, a list that spans across the country. CapTech Data Engineering Associate Consultants are technology enthusiasts with a passion for solving complex business problems and implementing cutting-edge data solutions for our clients. You will enjoy working within a collaborative team environment to help define and deliver innovative, data-driven solutions to our clients. We attract creatively innovative, ethically insightful, driven, value conscious, caring, and passionate people who love what they do and bring that enthusiasm to projects. Our Data Engineers focus on building and implementing advanced data systems to deliver high quality data to drive business solutions. Utilizing engineering best practices to ingest and process data quickly and efficiently, our engineers look to build advanced systems that bring data together from disparate sources for businesses to use. The role involves gaining practical, client-facing experience from the start, supported by a client-simulated boot camp. This immersive 3-week program will kickstart your journey as an Associate Consultant in our one-year Discovery Program, designed to support your transition from college to CapTech. CapTech offers continuous learning opportunities, including workshops, cross-training, and social events that foster networking and skill development across different areas of our business. You will also engage in a coaching culture, mentored by Subject Matter Experts, with a commitment to professional growth through various consulting projects.

Requirements

• Graduating in December 2025 - Spring/Summer 2026 with a bachelor’s or +1/accelerated masters degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or similar discipline
• Prior work, internship or classroom experience in business concepts and processes with the chance to work with specific tools
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate AI concepts to non-technical colleagues
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting ability
• Familiarity with data ingestion and transformation fundamentals
• Understanding of data analysis and data quality principles
• Experience developing data solutions using relational database management systems such as: SQL Server, MySQL, Redshift, Amazon RDS, etc.
• Fundamental proficiency in: Python, SQL or another scripting language to extract and manipulate data
• Familiar with version control systems such as GIT
• Familiarity with fundamental AI/ML concepts
• Understanding of data preparation for use with AI models
• Applicants must be authorized to work directly for any employer in the United States without visa sponsorship

Nice To Haves

• Prior work/internships in a related technical field
• Working with one or more data transformation tools/products: Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Google Data Fusion
• Fundamental understanding of one or more cloud providers and storage solutions such as: AWS (S3), Google Cloud Platform and Storage, Azure (Blob Storage)
• Familiarity with entity relationship diagrams (ERD)

Responsibilities

• Build data systems that bring together data from disparate sources, making it available to data scientists, analysts, and other users
• Ingest, clean, and transform structured and unstructured datasets to solve data problems and deliver data solutions
• Design, develop, and implement data processing pipelines at scale

Benefits

• Learning & Development – Programs offering certification and tuition support, digital on-demand learning courses, mentorship, and skill development paths
• Modern Health –A mental health and well-being platform that provides 1:1 care, group support sessions, and self-serve resources to support employees and their families through life’s ups and downs
• Carrot Fertility –Inclusive fertility and family-forming coverage for all paths to parenthood – including adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, pregnancy, and more – and opportunities for employer-sponsored funds to help pay for care
• Fringe –A company paid stipend program for personalized lifestyle benefits, allowing employees to choose benefits that matter most to them – ranging from vendors like Netflix, Spotify, and GrubHub to services like student loan repayment, travel, fitness, and more
• Employee Resource Groups – Employee-led committees that embrace and incorporate diversity and inclusion into our day-to-day operations
• Philanthropic Partnerships – Opportunities to engage in partnerships and pro-bono projects that support our communities
• 401(k) Matching – Generous matching and no vesting period to help you continue to build financial wellness

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level