Hiring: Data Engineering Associate Consultant (Graduating Dec 2026 - Summer 2027) Company: CapTech Location: Richmond, VA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 14:40:46 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, Data Pipeline, GCP, Git, MySQL, Python, RDS, Redshift, S3, SQL, SQL Server, Spring About the job Experience: •Gain practical, client-facing experience from the start, supported by our client-simulated boot camp. This immersive 3-week program will kickstart your journey as an Associate Consultant in our one-year Discovery Program, designed to support your transition from college to CapTech. •We offer ongoing learning opportunities, including workshops, cross-training, and social events that foster networking and skill development across different areas of our business. •Engage in our coaching culture, where you'll be mentored by our Subject Matter Experts. Our commitment to professional growth ensures that you can discover and pursue what you're passionate about through various consulting projects. •Our Data Engineers focus on building and implementing advanced data systems to deliver high quality data to drive business solutions. Utilizing engineering best practices to ingest and process data quickly and efficiently, our engineers look to build advanced systems that bring data together from disparate sources for businesses to use. •Build data systems that bring together data from disparate sources, making it available to data scientists, analysts, and other users Required Skills: •Please note: we are hiring for this position in multiple locations (Atlanta, Charlotte, Columbus, Denver, Philadelphia, Reston/DC, and Richmond). •CapTech Data Engineering Associate Consultants are technology enthusiasts with a passion for solving complex business problems and implementing cutting-edge data solutions for our clients. You will enjoy working within a collaborative team environment to help define and deliver innovative, data-driven solutions to our clients. •We attract creatively innovative, ethically insightful, driven, value conscious, caring, and passionate people who love what they do and bring that enthusiasm to projects. Qualifications: •Graduating in December 2026 - Spring/Summer 2027 with a bachelor’s or +1/accelerated masters* degree in Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or similar discipline •Prior work, internship or classroom experience in business concepts and processes with the chance to work with specific tools •Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate AI concepts to non-technical colleagues •Strong problem solving and troubleshooting ability •Operational familiarity with data ingestion and transformation fundamentals •Understanding of data analysis and data quality principles •Fundamental proficiency in: Python, SQL or another scripting language to extract and manipulate data •Familiar with version control systems such as GIT •Operational familiarity with fundamental AI/ML concepts •Understanding of data preparation for use with AI models Compensation: •$84,000 - $88,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!