Senior Data Engineer (Secret Cleared) at CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$70,800–$172,400from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Arlington, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level data engineering role focused on building and maintaining ingestion pipelines for several specific financial and travel systems within an Azure Data Lake and Databricks environment. Day-to-day work spans ETL/ELT development, data quality validation, pipeline troubleshooting, and cross-team coordination. The role also involves mentoring junior engineers and producing technical documentation. An active Secret clearance is required.
Senior level · 5+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · 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 $166,452 (middle half $130,866–$200,954). 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 (8)
The JD requires a Bachelor's degree 'or equivalent practical experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Experience range is stated as 5–8 years; 5 is used as the minimum for the overall years minimum.
Azure and Databricks are listed in the required section as 'preferably Azure and/or Databricks' — the substitution qualifier means the cloud/Databricks capability is required but the specific tool is interchangeable; Azure is named first with common cloud alternatives noted.
Apache Spark, Delta Lake, ADLS, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, CI/CD, and Agile all appear under the 'Desired qualifications/non-essential skills' section.
The compensation range ($70,800–$172,400/year) is unusually wide; CGI notes this is a jurisdictional estimate and that they typically do not hire at the top of the range.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily pipeline/warehouse building (ETL, Databricks, Delta Lake, data modeling) pointing to 15-1243, but the volume of Python development and software engineering practices (CI/CD, peer reviews, coding standards) makes 15-1252 a plausible runner-up.
An active Secret clearance is explicitly required as a hard gate.
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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