Senior Data Engineer

Job Title : Senior Data Engineer
Location : Remote
Duration : 12 Months

Salary Range: $60.00 - $62.00/Hour on W2 (Without Benefits).
Applicants must be willing to work on W2.

Clearance : Must be able to obtain and maintain a T5/SSBI federally adjudicated clearance, active TS clearance is preferred.

Job Description:

• Peraton is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to support critical missions within Peraton's Risk Decision Group.
• This is a remote role all and TS clearance is preferred- if not, candidates will need to obtain one within a few months but can begin working without one.
• This role builds and extends a greenfield data and AI platform supporting federal background investigation work.
• Working alongside the platform's lead engineer, you'll develop and maintain the pipelines, transformations, and data products that move the platform forward - growing your ownership as the platform matures.
• This is hands-on engineering in a high-trust environment where FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, and CUI handling shape how the work is built.

Responsibilities:

• Build, test, and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline code that turns raw and synthetic data into governed, analysis-ready data products.
• Extend the platform following the architecture, patterns, and standards set by the lead platform engineer.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines that promote work into the accredited production environment.
• Monitor data quality, pipeline reliability, and performance troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Apply data governance, cataloging, and access-control practices within the established framework.
• Support the data science and ML team by delivering the governed datasets and tooling they need.
• Operate within FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, and CUI constraints in day-to-day engineering.
• Collaborate closely with the engineering team and maintain clear documentation of pipelines and processes.

Required Qualifications:

• 5-7 years building and maintaining production data pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Hands-on ETL / data pipeline development and sound analytical data modeling.
• Working familiarity with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred, AWS or GCP fine) and version control / CI/CD workflows.
• Solid analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Databricks experience (or a comparable lakehouse stack: Spark, Delta, dbt, Snowflake).
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD for data workloads.
• Experience in regulated or accredited environments: FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC, or CUI handling.
• Active security clearance (T5/SSBI or higher).
• Government or defense contracting experience.
• Familiarity with data governance / cataloging tooling (e.g., Unity Catalog) and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt).

Soft Skills:

• Dependable, self-directed execution with minimal oversight.
• Strong collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
• Clear documentation and knowledge-sharing.
• Eagerness to grow ownership and learn the compliance environment.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field required.
• Remote role, TS clearance preferred, US Citizens only