Job Description

WarCollar Industries is seeking a motivated, career- and customer-oriented Data Engineer to support mission-focused data engineering initiatives in Herndon, VA. The Data Engineer will leverage strong Python and data engineering expertise to design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and applications supporting the collection, ingestion, transformation, and delivery of cyber data. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in ensuring relevant and actionable data is securely delivered to cyber analysts and data scientists in normalized, reliable, and operationally useful formats.

Required Skills

Core Responsibilities:

Design, build, optimize, and maintain resilient data pipelines using Python, with an emphasis on data collection, ingestion, ETL, and analytics.

Develop and support complex data solutions, including data transformation, validation, quality controls, and data integrity.

Integrate data from diverse internal and external sources, including REST APIs, flat files, and structured and semi-structured data formats.

Ensure data is available, accessible, reliable, and securely managed to meet operational and stakeholder requirements.

Test, troubleshoot, and validate data movement, parsing, and transformation code across development and production environments.

Provide platform and production support, including debugging, root cause analysis, issue resolution, and ongoing system maintenance.

Collaborate with software developers, analysts, data scientists, and other cross-functional teams to deliver effective data products and help end users maximize analytics environments.

Desired Skills

Required Qualifications:

High School Diploma and 5+ years of software development experience using Python.

Demonstrated experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining data pipelines, ETL processes, and ingestion workflows.

Experience with Git, GitHub, or similar version control systems.

Experience working with common data formats including JSON, XML, CSV, and other structured or semi-structured data.

Experience with Bash, Linux, and command-line tools in development and/or production environments.

Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical teams.

Additional Details

WarCollar Industries offers the opportunity to work on challenging, mission-focused technology initiatives while contributing to secure and scalable data solutions supporting U.S. Government customers.

About WarCollar Industries

About us:

WarCollar Industries, LLC is a veteran-owned small business. We maintain a team of cybersecurity experts committed to protecting complicated data and distribution systems and providing decision makers with the most accurate assessment of residual risk possible. We work with our clients to solve the toughest challenges in the ever-evolving digital landscape. Services include network defense, computer network attack, secure network design, penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. WarCollar enables its clients to find, fix, stop, and ultimately solve cybersecurity problems across their entire enterprise.

WarCollar offers generous benefits including: Medical insurance premium coverage; PTO based on billable hours; federal holidays plus your birthday; matching 401k, education reimbursement plus paid training days; performance bonuses; referral bonuses; government shutdown protection; monthly team building events plus two major social events annually.

WarCollar Industries, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. WarCollar does not discriminate in employment based upon race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, status as a protected military veteran, or other non-merit factor.

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