Kforce has an enterprise client seeking a Data Engineer II in Herndon, VA. Summary: The Data Engineer will collaborate with Business Intelligence Engineering team members, engineering stakeholders, partner technical teams, and business stakeholders, to gather business and functional requirements, and translate these requirements into a robust, scalable, and operable data infrastructure that works well within the overall AWS data architecture, and leads to improved engineering decisions. Duties Include: * Develop a deep understanding and awareness of operational data from the AWS fleet, and build mechanisms for retrieving and aggregating such data for use by downstream business intelligence solutions * Develop a deep understanding of our vast data sources, and provide continuous recommendations for use to solve specific business problems * Take ownership of data reliability by, among other things, performing deep-dives to find root causes of potential data anomalies, and taking subsequent action to address these anomalies * Continuously optimize the performance of data queries, and address extract, transform, load (ETL) procedures * Insist on the highest standards by recognizing and adopting best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation* SQL * AWS experience * Programming Language