• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest, clean, transform, and aggregate data from disparate sources across the VA ecosystem • Develop and implement data models that support analytical use cases and measurement frameworks • Partner with data scientists, service designers, and product managers to translate analytical requirements into infrastructure that delivers analytics-ready datasets • Implement data quality checks, validation processes, monitoring, and governance practices to ensure data accuracy and integrity • Communicate technical concepts and infrastructure decisions using plain language to non-technical stakeholders to support effective decision-making and gain buy-in where needed • Serve as a technical leader, mentor junior practitioners, and advance how data engineering supports human-centered design • Stay current on data engineering developments and bring best practices into constrained technical and policy environments