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Senior Data Engineer
Consumer Product Safety Commission · Posted 72 days ago
Hybrid Bethesda, MD $144K – $187K Apply by Aug 3, 2026 Data Science Series ENTJENTPINTJINTP EngineeringData
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As a Senior Data Engineer in CPSC's Analytics Center of Excellence, you'll design, build, and maintain the data pipelines and infrastructure that allow CPSC to collect, process, and leverage high-quality data for analytics and operational needs. You will ensure data is reliable, accessible, and optimized for downstream use by data scientists, analysts, and AI/ML systems that drive policy, modernization, and safety decisions.
What You'll Do
- →This position is officially titled Data Scientist.
- →The working title is Senior Data Engineer.
- →The Senior Data Engineer serves as a technical authority within the Analytics Center of Excellence (COE), responsible for architecting, leading, and optimizing enterprise-scale data solutions that drive advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI initiatives across the agency.
- →This position is pivotal in shaping CPSC's data strategy, ensuring robust, secure, and scalable data infrastructure to support mission-critical programs and inform policy decisions.
- →The incumbent regularly interfaces with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners to advance the agency's evidence-based, data-driven culture.
- →The Senior Data Engineer: Directs the design and implementation of complex, scalable data pipelines and services, leveraging cloud-native and open-source technologies (e.g., Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL, Data Factory, Python frameworks) to support predictive modeling, real-time analytics, and operational dashboards.
- →Initiates, plans, and executes major developmental projects, often representing an important segment of the agency's operating programs.
- →Coordinates cross-functional teams, manages resources, and ensures timely delivery of high-impact data products.
- →Develops and enforces schema, validation, and quality controls across diverse data sources.
- →Implements robust ETL/ELT workflows, API integrations, and microservices for seamless data exchange and analytics.
- →Architects secure, efficient, and reproducible data workflows in modern cloud environments, ensuring compliance with federal data governance and AI risk management frameworks.
- →Designs and implements high-quality data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, validation, quality enforcement, and preprocessing of diverse datasets.
- →Ensures data provenance, lineage, interoperability, schema consistency, and compliance with data governance requirements.
- →Provides technical mentorship to junior engineers and data scientists.
Requirements
- ✓Must be a U.S.
- ✓This is a Public Trust Position.
- ✓Employment in this position requires a background investigation.
- ✓If you are selected and cannot meet the criteria requirement for the pre-employment waiver and/or a favorable suitability determination within a reasonable period of time due to disclosed or undisclosed background issues, the employment offer may be withdrawn.
- ✓If you are a male born after December 31, 1959 you must certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System, or are exempt from having to do so under the Selective Service Law.
- ✓Please see http://www.sss.gov for more information.
- ✓Selectees will be required to complete a "Declaration of Federal Employment", (OF-306), prior to appointment and the appropriate background investigation forms to determine suitability for Federal employment.
- ✓False statements or responses on these forms can jeopardize your employment opportunity and subject you to disciplinary action, including removal from Federal service.
- ✓The selectee will be required to complete a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification from the I-9 Form.
- ✓We will compare information provided on the I-9 Form to records available from the U.S.
- ✓Department of Homeland Security.
- ✓The system confirms employee's identity and eligibility to work in the United States.
- ✓Learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
Benefits
- ★CPSC offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes: paid vacation, sick leave, 11 paid holidays per year, life and health insurance, Long Term Care insurance, dental and vision insurance, flexible spending account program, and retirement savings and investment plan similar to 401(k) (Thrift Savings Plan).
- ★CPSC also offers a broad array of work-life flexibilities and services to employees such as, flexible work schedules, transit subsidies, fitness center, and employee assistance and wellness programs.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 25e2b603-07ab-4250-ac71-1e5fa9c0c151
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