IT Specialist (Data Engineer)

The IT Specialist (Data Engineer) role sits in the Division of Data (DoD), within the Data Operations and Standards Branch (DOSB) of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The position focuses on developing, implementing, and operating data strategies to support enterprise analytics and data governance across the agency.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and sustain enterprise data environments including data lakes, data warehouses, and lakehouse architectures.
• Design and evolve data models such as normalized, dimensional, star, and snowflake schemas to enable advanced analytics.
• Build ETL and ELT pipelines for structured and semi-structured data with automated data quality monitoring.
• Develop and manage event-driven and streaming data pipelines using contemporary orchestration frameworks.
• Implement data governance, classification, retention, and stewardship practices aligned to federal standards.
• Apply Zero Trust security principles and support Authority to Operate processes consistent with NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, and FedRAMP.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship
• Background or security investigation
• May be required to serve a one-year probationary period
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959
• Attention to detail
• Customer service orientation
• Information management skills
• Problem solving abilities
• CT-13: Designing and implementing enterprise data architecture, pipelines, and modeling solutions
• CT-13: Applying federal data governance and security frameworks
• CT-13: Developing data integration and orchestration solutions
• CT-13: Supporting BI, analytics, and machine learning workflows
• CT-13: Applying DevOps practices to data engineering

THIS JOB IS OPEN TO

• The public: U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the United States
• Clarification from the agency: Applications will be accepted from all U.S. Citizens

Location

Washington, DC, onsite

Compensation

Salary range: USD 152,377 - 223,819 per year

Experience

Minimum experience required: 1 year

Agency Contact Information

• Contact: Jenna Giles
• Phone: 202-839-0603
• Fax: 202-501-0018
• Email: [email protected]
• Address: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20581, United States