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Data Engineer
Anika SystemsUnited States - Remote, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 24 Apr 2026
About the role
Anika Systems is seeking a skilled Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and platforms supporting federal clients. This role will play a critical part in enabling enterprise data strategies, supporting Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO) initiatives, and delivering high-quality, trusted data for analytics, reporting, and mission operations.
This opportunity is 100% remote.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, XBRL data processing, Apache Iceberg-based architectures, and advanced data optimization techniques such as materialized views and context-aware data engineering. This role also requires proficiency in AI tools and AI-assisted development workflows, along with experience building and deploying CI/CD pipelines for data and analytics platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Data Pipeline Development & ETL/ELT
This opportunity is 100% remote.
The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, XBRL data processing, Apache Iceberg-based architectures, and advanced data optimization techniques such as materialized views and context-aware data engineering. This role also requires proficiency in AI tools and AI-assisted development workflows, along with experience building and deploying CI/CD pipelines for data and analytics platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Data Pipeline Development & ETL/ELT
- Design, develop, and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, transform, and deliver data across enterprise platforms.
- Build scalable data ingestion frameworks for structured and semi-structured data, including XBRL filings and financial datasets.
- Implement data transformation logic to support analytics, reporting, and regulatory use cases.
- Ensure data pipelines are reliable, performant, and scalable in cloud environments.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate pipeline development, testing, and optimization.
- Develop and manage data solutions leveraging AWS services (e.g., S3, Airflow, DAGs, Glue, Lambda, Redshift).
- Implement and optimize Apache Iceberg table formats for large-scale, ACID-compliant data lakes.
- Support lakehouse architectures that unify data lakes and data warehouses.
- Optimize data storage and retrieval strategies for performance and cost efficiency.
- Enable data platforms that support AI/ML workloads and downstream generative AI use cases.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for data pipelines, infrastructure, and analytics code using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS-native services.
- Automate build, test, and deployment processes for ETL pipelines and data platform components.
- Implement DataOps best practices, including version control, automated testing, environment promotion, and rollback strategies.
- Ensure reproducibility, reliability, and governance of data pipeline deployments across environments.
- Integrate AI-driven testing and monitoring tools to improve pipeline quality and reduce operational risk.
- Design and implement materialized views and other performance optimization techniques to improve query efficiency.
- Tune data pipelines and queries for performance, scalability, and cost.
- Implement partitioning, indexing, and caching strategies aligned to workload patterns.
- Develop pipelines to ingest, parse, and normalize XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) data.
- Support regulatory and financial data use cases requiring high accuracy and traceability.
- Ensure alignment with data standards and validation rules for financial reporting datasets.
- Apply context engineering principles to ensure data is enriched with meaningful metadata, lineage, and business context.
- Collaborate with Data Architects to support data modeling, schema design, and entity relationships.
- Enable downstream analytics and AI use cases by structuring data for usability, discoverability, and governance.
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