GenAI Data Automation Engineer needed for a contract opportunity with SOC’s client to work remotely with quarterly travel to Gaithersburg, MD.

Contract Length: 6+ Months, possible conversion to FTE

This position is remote, but requires quarterly travel to Gaithersburg, MD.

*Must have an active Public Trust clearance to be considered for this role.*

Job Description:
Our client is seeking a GenAI Data Automation Engineer to design and implement innovative, AI-driven automation solutions across AWS and Azure hybrid environments. You will be responsible for building intelligent, scalable data pipelines and automations that integrate cloud services, enterprise tools, and Generative AI to support mission-critical analytics, reporting, and customer engagement platforms. Ideal candidate is mission focused, delivery oriented, and applies critical thinking to create innovative functions and solve technical issues.

In this role, you will:

• Design and maintain data pipelines in AWS using S3, RDS/SQL Server, Glue, Lambda, EMR, DynamoDB, and Step Functions.
• Develop ETL/ELT processes to move data from multiple data systems including DynamoDB ? SQL Server (AWS) and between AWS ? Azure SQL systems.
• Integrate AWS Connect, Nice inContact CRM data into the enterprise data pipeline for analytics and operational reporting.
• Engineer, enhance ingestion pipelines with Apache Spark, Flume, Kafka for real-time and batch processing into Apache Solr, AWS Open Search platforms.
• Leverage Generative AI services and Frameworks (AWS Bedrock, Amazon Q, Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain) to:
• Create automated processes for vector generation and embedding from unstructured data to support Generative AI models.
• Automate data quality checks, metadata tagging, and lineage tracking.
• Enhance ingestion/ETL with LLM-assisted transformation and anomaly detection.
• Build conversational BI interfaces that allow natural language access to Solr and SQL data.
• Develop AI-powered copilots for pipeline monitoring and automated troubleshooting.
• Implement SQL Server stored procedures, indexing, query optimization, profiling, and execution plan tuning to maximize performance.
• Apply CI/CD best practices using GitHub, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps for both data pipelines and GenAI model integration.
• Ensure security and compliance through IAM, KMS encryption, VPC isolation, RBAC, and firewalls.
• Support Agile DevOps processes with sprint-based delivery of pipeline and AI-enabled features.

Required Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of data engineering, automation experiences.
• Hands-on experience with LLM, Generative AI frameworks using AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI or open source platform.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, SSIS, Python, Spark, Bash, Power shell, AWS/Azure CLIs.
• Experience with AWS services like S3, RDS/SQL Server, Glue, Lambda, EMR, DynamoDB.
• Familiarity with Apache Flume, Kafka, Solr for large-scale data ingestion and search.
• Experience with integrating REST API calls in data pipelines and workflows.
• Familiarity with JIRA, GitHub / Azure DevOps / Jenkins for SDLC and CI/CD automation.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills in SQL, Spark or other data engineering solutions.
• Experience operationalizing Generative AI (GenAI Ops) pipelines, including model deployment, monitoring, retraining, and lifecycle management for LLMs and AI-enabled data workflows.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• US Citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance

Employment Prerequisites
The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation and drug urinalysis.

SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations, which may have been provided by job boards. Actual pay is determined by an applicant’s experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.

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Estimated Min Rate: $36.72
Estimated Max Rate: $52.46