Senior Data Engineer at System One
Atlanta, GA
$147,000from the description
Jul 11, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level data engineering role supporting a government-contracted analytics team, focused on designing and maintaining enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehouses, and lakehouse environments. Day-to-day work involves ingesting and transforming large-scale datasets, enforcing data governance and quality controls, and deploying cloud-based data solutions on Azure. Suits an experienced data or software engineer with a strong background in Python, SQL, and cloud data platforms.
Senior level · 8+ years · Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA · Bachelor's required
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5 people in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 2–7
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $113,390 (middle half $80,247–$141,556). 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 posting lists two preferred work locations — Atlanta, GA and the D.C. Metro area — with no single primary site; Atlanta CBSA is used as the primary metro since it is listed first, but the D.C. Metro area (CBSA 47900) is an equally valid location.
The clearance requirement is framed as 'Eligible for Public Trust Clearance' — this is a suitability/background investigation, not a formal US security clearance level (Confidential/Secret/TS), so the clearance requirement is set to None.
US citizenship or Legal Permanent Resident status is required per the government contract; this is a citizenship gate, not a security clearance gate.
The degree requirement is a hard gate: 'Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related, quantitative field' with no equivalent-experience substitution offered.
The salary is stated as a fixed point ($147,000 annually), so min and max are both set to that figure.
The role is posted by a staffing firm (System One/Joulé) on behalf of a government client (DMAC EDAV Team, with a CDC reference in preferred skills); employment type is not explicitly stated.
Previous CDC experience and government environment experience appear only under 'Preferred Skills' and are not captured as named technology skills.
'data modeling' and 'NoSQL databases' are listed under the required 'Job Requirements' section alongside relational databases and schema design; they are treated as hard gates accordingly.
CI/CD is mentioned in the responsibilities section ('CI/CD practices') rather than the requirements section; however, it is framed as an expected practice the engineer will use, consistent with the role's technical scope — listed as required given the overall framing.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): data governance, Azure Data Engineer Associate.
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