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Remote - VA, United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Jun 2026
💰 $204,000/yr($111,000/yr$204,000/yr)

About the role

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

  • Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

  • Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

  • Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

  • Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

 

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

 

Working@AIS

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a DataOps Engineer.
  • Core Knowledge & Skills: Develops strong skills in building and maintaining data pipelines using industry-standard tools and platforms. Gains proficiency in scripting languages (such as Python, Shell, SQL), cloud data services, and analytics platforms. Understands data warehousing concepts and best practices for data security and compliance.

  • Work & Complexity: Manages and optimizes data pipelines with multiple sources and destinations, ensuring data integrity and timeliness. Troubleshoots and resolves data issues, automates repetitive tasks, and contributes to workflow efficiency.

  • Quality & Independence: Delivers high-quality, maintainable, and well-documented code. Maintains rigorous standards for data accuracy and reliability, and ensures compliance with internal policies and regulations. Operates with growing autonomy and takes initiative to improve data processes.

  • Teamwork & Communication: Collaborates closely with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to understand and meet data needs. Integrates into cross-functional teams, mentors junior team members, and actively participates in feedback and knowledge sharing.

  • Consulting & Engagement: Provides consulting services to internal teams on data operations best practices. Identifies opportunities for process improvements, acts as a technical advisor on projects, and supports team members in adopting new tools and techniques.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Data Engineer.

What You Will Be Doing

As a Data Engineer, you will design, build, and operate scalable data platforms and products within modern cloud environments—primarily Microsoft Azure, with Databricks as a key analytics and processing technology. You will work closely with analytics, data science, and business teams to enable reliable, governed, and high‑quality data for reporting, analytics, and advanced use cases.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and near‑real‑time data pipelines using cloud‑native services

  • Develop and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration workflows across diverse data sources

  • Build and maintain ELT/ETL frameworks to support analytics, reporting, and data science use cases

  • Prepare, transform, and curate raw data into analytics‑ready datasets for both technical and non‑technical stakeholders

  • Develop, deploy, and operate data products within Azure‑based analytics platforms (e.g., Databricks, Synapse, Fabric)

  • Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and observability to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and integrity

  • Apply data governance, security, and privacy controls aligned with enterprise and regulatory standards

  • Monitor data platform performance and proactively implement cost and performance optimizations

  • Partner with data scientists, analysts, and analytics engineers to ensure trusted and timely access to data

  • Design data solutions that are scalable, reusable, automated, and well‑governed by default

Location and Travel Details

This is a remote position  

  
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Company

AIS (Applied Information Sciences)

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