Job Requirements
Remote Fort Meade, MD
Secret Polygraph not specified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$137,510 - $195,000
Job Description
Data Engineer
Req #: 30132
Clearance: Secret
Certification: Security+
Schedule: Hybrid (4-5 days per week)
Location: Fort Meade, MD
Anticipated Salary Range: $137,510.00 - $195,000.00.
Essential Job Responsibilities
Customer Interface & Engagement: Serve as the liaison between the customer and the technical team. You will manage expectations, communicate technical roadmaps, and translate mission-specific data needs into actionable engineering tasks.
Operational Leadership: Assist in managing the daily operations of the DataOps team, focusing on accelerating data availability and minimizing the latency between initial data identification and final database availability.
Systems Engineering Oversight: Oversee the deployment and maintenance of data flows using standardized templates and core libraries provided by the Engineering team.
Performance Tuning: Responsible for immediate cluster performance tuning and pipeline monitoring to ensure data health and discovery latency are minimized.
Strategic Alignment: Drive the technical evolution of the data platform, moving the organization from a reactive maintenance state toward a proactive, automated, and adaptive operational model.
Ecosystem Coordination: Facilitate technical exchanges to ensure scripts, flow strategies, and wins in one area of the ecosystem are adapted and utilized across others.
Quality Governance: Implement automated "Quality Gates" and schema validations to ensure data integrity before it reaches production environments.
Technical Troubleshooting: Assist with the decomposition of complex technical problems and troubleshoot systemic dataflow issues across distributed messaging, orchestration, and cloud environments.
Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
Clearance Requirement: Must currently have and maintain an active Secret U.S. Government Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI; U.S. Citizenship required.
Must have 9+ years in technical operations, systems engineering, or data management with a Bachelor’s degree; OR 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; OR High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.
Distributed Systems & Cloud Platforms: Proven experience managing high-volume data flow and storage solutions, specifically distributed messaging queues, data orchestration engines, and cloud-native storage.
Observability & Log Analysis: Strong familiarity with enterprise observability platforms and log analysis tools for monitoring system health and minimizing data discovery latency.
Data Standards: Deep understanding of network data, metadata fill rates, and various log formats such as JSON and XML.
ETL Management: Fluency in managing extraction, translation, and loading (ETL) processes to enable rapid analytics.
Data Validation: Experience with Structure Query Language (SQL) for the purposes of data validation in conjunction with members of the team and the customer.
Scripting for Automation: Ability to utilize scripting languages (e.g., Python or Java) to implement shared libraries that automate repetitive tasks and improve operational efficiency.
Technical Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and translate customer mission requirements into technical specifications.
Must be able to work on customer site in Fort Meade, MD 4-5 days a week. Flexibility is essential to accommodate any changes in the schedule.
Preferred Requirements
A current TS/SCI level clearance is desired.
Customer Success Background: Prior experience in a technical account management or customer-facing engineering role.
Scalable Architectures: Experience with distributed data processing and cloud-native storage solutions.
Security Operations: Prior experience supporting cyber or network security operations.
Governance & Access: Knowledge of implementing automated Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) or data masking within production pipelines.
Req #: 30132
Clearance: Secret
Certification: Security+
Schedule: Hybrid (4-5 days per week)
Location: Fort Meade, MD
Anticipated Salary Range: $137,510.00 - $195,000.00.
Essential Job Responsibilities
Customer Interface & Engagement: Serve as the liaison between the customer and the technical team. You will manage expectations, communicate technical roadmaps, and translate mission-specific data needs into actionable engineering tasks.
Operational Leadership: Assist in managing the daily operations of the DataOps team, focusing on accelerating data availability and minimizing the latency between initial data identification and final database availability.
Systems Engineering Oversight: Oversee the deployment and maintenance of data flows using standardized templates and core libraries provided by the Engineering team.
Performance Tuning: Responsible for immediate cluster performance tuning and pipeline monitoring to ensure data health and discovery latency are minimized.
Strategic Alignment: Drive the technical evolution of the data platform, moving the organization from a reactive maintenance state toward a proactive, automated, and adaptive operational model.
Ecosystem Coordination: Facilitate technical exchanges to ensure scripts, flow strategies, and wins in one area of the ecosystem are adapted and utilized across others.
Quality Governance: Implement automated "Quality Gates" and schema validations to ensure data integrity before it reaches production environments.
Technical Troubleshooting: Assist with the decomposition of complex technical problems and troubleshoot systemic dataflow issues across distributed messaging, orchestration, and cloud environments.
Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
Clearance Requirement: Must currently have and maintain an active Secret U.S. Government Security Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI; U.S. Citizenship required.
Must have 9+ years in technical operations, systems engineering, or data management with a Bachelor’s degree; OR 7 years relevant experience with Masters in related field; OR High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.
Distributed Systems & Cloud Platforms: Proven experience managing high-volume data flow and storage solutions, specifically distributed messaging queues, data orchestration engines, and cloud-native storage.
Observability & Log Analysis: Strong familiarity with enterprise observability platforms and log analysis tools for monitoring system health and minimizing data discovery latency.
Data Standards: Deep understanding of network data, metadata fill rates, and various log formats such as JSON and XML.
ETL Management: Fluency in managing extraction, translation, and loading (ETL) processes to enable rapid analytics.
Data Validation: Experience with Structure Query Language (SQL) for the purposes of data validation in conjunction with members of the team and the customer.
Scripting for Automation: Ability to utilize scripting languages (e.g., Python or Java) to implement shared libraries that automate repetitive tasks and improve operational efficiency.
Technical Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and translate customer mission requirements into technical specifications.
Must be able to work on customer site in Fort Meade, MD 4-5 days a week. Flexibility is essential to accommodate any changes in the schedule.
Preferred Requirements
A current TS/SCI level clearance is desired.
Customer Success Background: Prior experience in a technical account management or customer-facing engineering role.
Scalable Architectures: Experience with distributed data processing and cloud-native storage solutions.
Security Operations: Prior experience supporting cyber or network security operations.
Governance & Access: Knowledge of implementing automated Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) or data masking within production pipelines.
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