Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MetroStar is a company focused on delivering technology services with a strong emphasis on its people. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer I to support a high-visibility, enterprise AI-enabled financial compliance initiative for the Department of War, responsible for engineering the data backbone powering AI-assisted validation and governance.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable data pipelines supporting AI-enabled compliance workflows
- Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for large-scale document and financial datasets
- Engineer ingestion pipelines across structured and unstructured data sources
- Integrate relational databases and enterprise data systems into secure, production-grade AI architectures
- Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, DevSecOps, cybersecurity specialists, financial SMEs, and UX teams within a regulated DoW environment
Skills
- Active Secret clearance required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Minimum 5 years of data engineering professional experience
- Experience building and maintaining RAG pipelines including document ingestion, chunking, embedding, vector storage, and semantic search
- Strong Python proficiency with disciplined typing, functional programming patterns, and async/concurrent execution for data-intensive workloads
- Hands-on ETL experience across Excel, XML, YAML, Markdown, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL using SQLAlchemy and schema migrations
- Familiarity with LLM integration patterns including prompt engineering, structured response parsing, caching strategies, and evaluation frameworks
- Experience supporting DoD environments
Benefits
- Performance-based bonuses
- Company-paid training and/or certifications
- Referral bonuses
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Paid time off (PTO) and holidays
- Parental Leave and dependent care
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
- Employee assistance and wellness programs
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