Careers · R-009
Data Engineer
McLean, VA · Full-time · Onsite · TS/SCI with CI Poly
McLean, VAFull-time · OnsiteTS/SCI with CI Poly
Design and run the cloud data platforms behind a federal national security mission. You’ll own AWS data lakes and warehouses, build the pipelines that feed analysts, data scientists, and AI/ML teams, and lead a small cross-functional team.
What you’ll do
- Architect end-to-end pipelines that ingest, clean, enrich, and model structured and unstructured data
- Design and optimize relational, non-relational, and cloud data warehouses and data lakes in AWS
- Lead cloud migration and modernization of legacy data systems
- Build software and APIs to retrieve, parse, and process data
- Implement data quality, lineage, cataloging, and security/governance controls
- Partner with data scientists and developers to productionize models and feed BI dashboards
- Lead and coordinate a cross-functional team
What you bring
- 3+ years designing cloud-native data platforms in AWS
- 2+ years designing data lake, warehouse, and analytics solutions
- 2+ years cloud migration and modernization
- 2+ years data pipelines: acquisition, prep, database architecture
- Support for data science, AI/ML, and BI dashboards
- Non-relational and semi-relational databases
- Parsing and processing structured and unstructured data
- Team lead experience
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science
Bonus points
PySpark / SparkDatabricksAWS EMRRedshiftAirflowTrino / IcebergElasticsearchTerraformPalantir FoundryA&A experiencePython & SQLAPI developmentAWS Solutions Architect certification
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