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Senior Data Engineer

Chantilly, VA💼 Full-time💰 $130,000–$130,000🗓 2026-08-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and optimize robust data pipelines, data warehouses, and streaming solutions for the defense and intelligence communities.

Role type

Senior IC data engineer (multi-cloud, security-focused)

Builds

Batch and real-time streaming data ingestion pipelines, enterprise data warehouses, containerized data microservices

Domain

Defense and intelligence / Multi-cloud data engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

PySpark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, dbt, MPP databases, Kimball dimensional modeling, Data Vault 2.0, Python, SQL, Scala, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm charts, AWS GovCloud, Azure, CI/CD security scanning

Preferred skills

AWS Certified Data Engineer, Databricks Certified Data Engineer, CKA, fine-grained access control (ABAC/RBAC) implementation

Technologies

Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS GovCloud, Azure

Responsibilities

Design and implement batch and real-time streaming data ingestion pipelines; Model and build performant data structures within enterprise data warehouses; Deploy and manage containerized data microservices; Integrate automated security scanning and credential management tools into CI/CD pipelines; Mentor junior data engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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