Kforce has a client that is seeking a hybrid Data Engineer to join their team in McLean, VA. Summary: The Data Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the infrastructure and systems required for data storage, processing, and analysis. They play a crucial role in building and managing the data pipelines that enable efficient and reliable data integration, transformation, and delivery for all data users across the enterprise. You will collaborate with various groups within the Technology organization and across the firm to deliver high-value technology solutions and achieve organizational success. Responsibilities: * Design and develop data pipelines that extract data from various sources, transform it into the desired format, and load it into the appropriate data storage systems * Collaborates with architects, data scientists, AI engineers, and analysts to manage data as an asset and optimize models and algorithms for data quality, security, and governance * Integrates data from different sources, including databases, data warehouses, APIs, and external systems * Ensures data consistency and integrity during the integration process, performing data validation and cleaning as needed * Transforms raw data into a usable format by applying data cleansing, aggregation, filtering, and enrichment techniques * Optimize data pipelines and data processing workflows for performance, scalability, and efficiency * Monitors and tunes data systems, identifies and resolves performance bottlenecks, and implements caching and indexing strategies to enhance query performance * Implements data quality checks and validations within data pipelines to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and completeness of data * Takes authority, responsibility, and accountability for exploiting the value of enterprise information assets and of the analytics used to render insights for decision making, automated decisions and augmentation of human performance