AI/ML Data Engineer- Hybrid (s/ s- Local to DMV only)

Washington, DC, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 4 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
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Skills

  • DMV
  • Information Technology
  • Agile
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Cost Reduction
  • Unstructured Data
  • Streaming
  • Real-time
  • Relational Databases
  • Data Extraction
  • Normalization
  • Extraction
  • Workflow
  • Evaluation
  • Distribution
  • Collaboration
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • Knowledge Base
  • Technical Writing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Incident Management
  • Machine Learning Operations (ML Ops)
  • Computer Science
  • Data Science
  • Information Systems
  • Software Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Data Engineering
  • Analytics
  • Extract
  • Transform
  • Load
  • ELT
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Database
  • File Systems
  • Cloud Storage
  • Data Warehouse
  • Data Modeling
  • Meta-data Management
  • Data Quality
  • Google Cloud
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Cloud Computing
  • Access Control
  • Encryption
  • Data Masking
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Data Lake
  • Storage
  • Databricks
  • Snow Flake Schema
  • Vector Databases
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Enterprise Search
  • Knowledge Management
  • Data Governance
  • FedRAMP
  • FISMA
  • NIST 800-53
  • NIST SP 800 Series
  • Privacy
  • Records Management
  • Health Insurance
  • Network
  • Life Insurance
  • Insurance
  • Training
  • Budget

Summary

About Swingtech

Swingtech delivers innovative Information Technology and Professional Support services to a diverse range of clients across the federal and intelligence communities. With over 15 years of trusted experience as a systems integrator, we apply agile methodologies and deep industry insight to help our customers achieve greater efficiency, compliance, and cost savings. At Swingtech, we're committed to excellence and long-term success for our clients and our team.

Position Summary

The AI/ML Data Engineer develops and sustains the secure data pipelines, data products, retrieval foundations, and governance controls that enable DOL's AI/ML solutions. The position supports structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources used for analytics, AI/ML development, document intelligence, RAG, and production AI applications.

Essential Duties

  • Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable data pipelines for batch, streaming, near-real-time, and event-driven workloads.
  • Integrate approved agency data sources, APIs, file stores, document repositories, relational databases, data lakes, data warehouses, and authorized external sources.
  • Develop ETL/ELT pipelines for data extraction, validation, transformation, normalization, enrichment, de-identification, metadata management, and loading.
  • Implement document-ingestion pipelines that support OCR, parsing, classification, metadata extraction, PII detection/redaction, chunking, embeddings, vector indexing, and retrieval workflows.
  • Create and maintain data models, schemas, data dictionaries, metadata structures, catalog records, and data-quality controls.
  • Implement data lineage, source provenance, dataset versioning, retention, access controls, and auditability for training, validation, evaluation, and production datasets.
  • Preserve the separation of training, validation, and final evaluation datasets through controlled access, versioning, and documented lifecycle processes.
  • Develop and monitor data-quality measures, including completeness, accuracy, timeliness, duplication, validity, freshness, distribution drift, and labeling quality.
  • Apply data minimization, masking, encryption, access controls, de-identification, and least-privilege safeguards to PII, CUI, and other protected DOL data.
  • Collaborate with AI/ML Engineers to optimize retrieval quality, embeddings, vector stores, hybrid search, reranking, citation traceability, and knowledge-base refresh processes.
  • Develop data-pipeline runbooks, technical documentation, source inventories, lineage artifacts, data-quality reports, and operational support procedures.
  • Support security, privacy, ATO, Responsible AI, incident response, MLOps, monitoring, and release-readiness activities.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, data science, information systems, software engineering, mathematics, or a related technical discipline.
  • At least four years of experience in data engineering, database development, analytics engineering, ETL/ELT development, data-platform implementation, or related work.
  • Strong SQL and Python development skills.
  • Experience designing data pipelines and integrating APIs, databases, file systems, cloud storage, data warehouses, or data lakes.
  • Experience with data modeling, metadata, data quality, data lineage, data transformation, monitoring, and operational support.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or equivalent cloud data services.
  • Knowledge of secure data-handling practices, including access control, encryption, data masking, PII protection, and logging.
  • Must be willing to work 3 days onsite at customer site in Washington, DC.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AWS Glue, S3, Athena, Redshift, Lake Formation, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent platforms.
  • Experience with vector databases or vector-search capabilities, including OpenSearch, pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus, Chroma, FAISS, or similar tools.
  • Experience with RAG, document intelligence, OCR, enterprise search, knowledge management, document classification, or content-ingestion pipelines.
  • Familiarity with Federal data governance, FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CUI, Privacy Act, and records-management requirements.

Summary of Benefits

  • 15 PTO days
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Medical Insurance with - 3 options (HSA with $600 Employer Contribution).
  • Dental Insurance with no age limit orthodonture.
  • Vision Insurance through EyeMed in and out of network coverage.
  • Short Term and Long-Term Disability coverage with 100% premium support,
  • Life insurance and AD&D with 100% premium support
  • Supplemental Life Insurance
  • Critical Care and Accident Insurance availability
  • Pet Insurance through Nationwide
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • 401k with enrollment from day one. 4% deferral by company.
  • $1500 Annual Training Budget
  • $1500 Referral bonus
  • Eligibility for annual merit and discretionary bonus
  • Flexible work arrangements

Equal Opportunity Employer Minority/Female/Veterans/Disabled
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  • Position Id: e74b7234b23c59221d04976a8fcc4646
  • Posted 2 days ago
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