Pantheon Data (a Kenific Holding company) is a private, small business based in the Washington, DC, area. Pantheon Data was founded in 2011, initially providing acquisition and supply chain management services to the US Coast Guard. Our service offerings have grown in the past ten years, including infrastructure resiliency, contact center operations, information technology, software engineering, program management, strategic communications, engineering, and cybersecurity. We have also grown our customer base to include commercial clients. The company has used this experience to expand our service offerings to other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Defense (DoD), and other Federal Civilian Agencies.
We are seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to help design, build, and operate the data foundations that support advanced analytics, AI/ML, and intelligent document processing solutions. The right candidate is a strong engineer who understands how data moves through real systems: ingestion, orchestration, transformation, quality checks, storage, query patterns, operational monitoring, and delivery to downstream applications. This person should be comfortable working across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, and should bring the judgment to build pipelines that are reliable, explainable, maintainable, and useful to the engineering teams and products that depend on them.
The ideal candidate has strong Python and SQL skills, understands when data should be modeled for operational use versus analytical use, and can reason clearly about batch processing, event-driven pipelines, data quality, lineage, and downstream consumption. They should be able to become productive quickly in a complex engineering environment, ask good questions, and build systems that other engineers can trust and extend. Experience with AWS, vector search, document data, or AI/ML data pipelines is valuable, but the core requirement is strong data engineering judgment: knowing how to move, structure, validate, and serve data reliably in support of real products and mission needs.
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Required Skills and Experience
Preferred Skills and Experience
Clearance Requirements
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements. Secret Clearance is required for continued employment.
Work Location: Reston, VA - Remote
Interview Requirement: Candidates who are local to the area should be prepared to participate in an in-person interview as part of the selection process. Candidates outside the local area may be considered for a virtual interview.
Compensation
The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $160,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Benefits Overview
We are always looking for good people! Pantheon Data is committed to providing its employees with competitive salaries and benefits in order to increase employee satisfaction and productivity. In addition to our benefits, we also offer SmartBenefits through the Washington Metro Area Transportation Authority, where you specify an amount of your pre-tax wages be paid directly to your SmarTrip account. In some cases, tuition assistance may be available for continuing education expenses and certifications related to their position. Additional details may be found at https://pantheon-data.com/careers/
Pantheon Data Important Information
All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.
As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our Talent Team at Recruiting@pantheon-data.com or by phone (571) 363-4020.
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Pantheon Data helps businesses and government organizations improve the way they collect, store, and analyze large volumes of data to become more effective, transparent and accountable by providing data management practices to streamline operations, enhance service delivery and promote fiscal responsibility.
At Pantheon Data we strive to create tailor-made solutions for our government and commercial clients. Our adaptability and expertise allow us to cater to a diverse clientele, while boasting both a broad and deep range of services in a variety of technical fields. We provide data-centric solutions with an emphasis on communication and collaboration every step of the way.
Long before government-wide efficiency moments gained popularity, Pantheon was known as the company to call when federal agencies needed to correct years of program mismanagement and miscalculation–becoming the partner of choice to rescue government ‘data programs to nowhere’.
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