Highlights
This role will be responsible for ensuring data quality, discoverability, lineage, cataloging, and integration across a complex data ecosystem (both internal and external to supporting organization). Work closely with data architects, analysts, data scientists, governance teams, and business stakeholders.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Washington, DC |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $160,000–$180,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.ecs-federal.com/ |
Description
Everforth ECS is seeking a Data/Metadata Engineer to join our team in Arlington, VA (Hybrid). This position is contingent upon award.
We are seeking a talented Data Engineer / Metadata Engineer to design, develop, and optimize data pipelines, metadata repositories, and data governance solutions that support enterprise analytics, reporting, and data management initiatives. This role will be responsible for ensuring data quality, discoverability, lineage, cataloging, and integration across a complex data ecosystem (both internal and external to supporting organization).
The ideal candidate combines strong technical data engineering skills with expertise in metadata management, data governance frameworks, and modern cloud data platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Data Engineering
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
- Integrate data from multiple structured and unstructured sources into enterprise data platforms.
- Integrate and correlate data sets both internal and external to customer organization.
- Develop and optimize data models, data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures.
- Ensure data pipelines meet performance, reliability, and scalability requirements.
- Implement automation and monitoring for data ingestion and processing workflows.
Metadata Management
- Design and maintain enterprise metadata repositories and data catalogs.
- Define and manage business, technical, and operational metadata standards.
- Develop processes for automated metadata collection, classification, and enrichment.
- Maintain metadata lineage and impact analysis capabilities across data assets.
- Ensure metadata consistency and accuracy across enterprise systems.
Data Governance & Quality
- Support enterprise data governance initiatives and best practices.
- Partner with business and technical stakeholders to define data ownership and stewardship models.
- Implement data quality monitoring and validation controls.
- Ensure compliance with organizational data policies and regulatory requirements.
- Support master data management (MDM) and reference data initiatives.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Develop and support cloud-native data solutions within Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud environments.
- Build and optimize data integration solutions using cloud services and modern data tools.
- Support enterprise analytics, AI/ML, business intelligence workloads, and assist with build of automation-first pipelines.
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and data platform automation efforts.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Support
- Work closely with data architects, analysts, data scientists, governance teams, and business stakeholders.
- Translate business requirements into data engineering and metadata management solutions.
- Support data discovery, self-service analytics, and data literacy initiatives.
- Document system designs, data flows, metadata models, and operational procedures.
Salary Range: $160,000 - $180,000
General Description of Benefits
About Company
ECS was founded in 2001 by experienced IT professionals with a commitment to quality processes, people and performance. Led by our Chairman, Roy Kapani, and an experienced executive leadership team, ECS provides our customers with solutions and services that support their critical needs and further mission objectives. This commitment has paved the way for expansive growth, year over year.
ECS gained market share in 2011 in the Department of Defense and Federal spaces through both organic and acquisition growth. In May, ECS completed its first strategic acquisition with the purchase of OAK Management, Inc., a leading provider of marine environmental services, ship systems engineering, maritime consulting and platform acquisition management. The OAK acquisition kicked off ECS’ intention to add tactical acquisitions as a part of its long term strategy to supplement and expand upon organic growth and to build enterprise value. ECS closed out 2011 with the acquisition of Paradigm Technologies, Inc. The Paradigm transaction added approximately 200 employees to ECS’ existing 900+ employees. Paradigm also added new Defense clients for ECS, including the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Integrated Warfare Systems, the United States Marine Corps, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
In 2012, ECS completed the acquisition of iLuMinA Solutions, Inc. iLuMinA brings large-scale Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation and infrastructure design and development to ECS’ expanding capabilities.
ECS will continue to invest in corporate infrastructure and quality processes as we grow and enhance our ability to offer professional excellence to both our customers and our employees.
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