Data Engineer Junior
ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company · Fairfax, VA
$80,000–$92,000from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Fairfax, VA
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A junior-level role centered on building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, and storage solutions across relational and non-relational systems in a federal enterprise environment. Day-to-day work spans pipeline orchestration, data quality validation, performance tuning, and lineage tracking, with close coordination alongside analysts and data scientists. Suited to early-career engineers with Python and SQL experience who can obtain a SECRET-level security clearance.
Junior level · 1+ years · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
Location is not specified in the posting; the CBSA and state fields are left blank. The role is at a federal client site, so location may be disclosed separately.
The degree requirement is listed as a Bachelor's degree 'or equivalent relevant experience,' so no hard degree gate is set.
Spark is described as 'strongly preferred' within the Required Qualifications section — an unusual placement for a preferred skill. It has been marked preferred because the posting's own language ('strongly preferred') explicitly signals it is not a hard gate.
Apache Airflow appears in both the responsibilities narrative ('such as Apache Airflow or similar tools') and the Preferred Qualifications section; it is marked preferred accordingly.
AWS/Azure/GCP appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are marked preferred.
Hadoop appears only under Preferred Qualifications and is marked preferred.
Candidates must be U.S. citizens and able to obtain and maintain a SECRET-level clearance — both are hard gates stated in Required Qualifications.
The $80,000–$92,000 range is stated without an explicit 'per year' label in the posting, but the figures are consistent with an annual salary; the period is inferred as Year.
SOC 15-1243 is "Database Architects", but this role was labelled "Data Warehousing Specialists" — the code and title disagree, so the occupation (and its BLS denominator) may be wrong.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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