Data Engineer Journeyman at ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company
Fairfax, VA
$105,000–$120,000from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Fairfax, VA
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-level data engineering role focused on building and maintaining batch and streaming pipelines, data models, and storage platforms — such as data lakes and warehouses — within a federal government context. The work spans data quality controls, metadata and lineage tracking, CI/CD automation, and security compliance. Suited to engineers with hands-on pipeline and distributed processing experience who can obtain a SECRET-level security clearance.
Mid level · 2+ years · Remote · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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)
The title 'Data Engineer Journeyman' carries no standard seniority level word; the title states no level. The 2–5 years experience range and scope of responsibilities align with a Mid-level role.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role centers on designing and building data pipelines, data models, and storage platforms (ETL/ELT, data lake/warehouse architecture), which maps best to 15-1243 Database Architects. However, the heavy emphasis on writing pipeline code (Spark, Kafka, CI/CD automation) also makes 15-1252 Software Developers a reasonable alternative.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent relevant experience,' so no hard degree gate is set.
A SECRET-level clearance is explicitly required ('Ability to obtain and maintain a SECRET-level security clearance'); U.S. citizenship is also required.
Apache Spark and Kafka are listed in the Required Qualifications with 'or equivalent cloud-native services/equivalents' — alternatives reflect common cloud-native substitutes. The qualifier means the specific tool is interchangeable, not that the capability is optional.
Git and Terraform appear only under Preferred Qualifications, as does cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and CI/CD automation.
No specific metro/location is stated; the role is described as fully remote supporting federal IT operations.
The compensation range ($105,000–$120,000) is stated without an explicit 'per year' label but is clearly an annual figure given its magnitude and context.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): data pipeline development, relational data modeling, metadata management.
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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