Job Requirements
Remote
Secret Polygraph Unspecified
Career Level not specified
$120,000 - $140,000
Job Description
Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an experienced Data Cloud Engineer to support a high-profile Department of Defense modernization initiative. This position offers the opportunity to drive enterprise cloud transformation efforts by designing and implementing scalable, secure, and modern data solutions across Azure and AWS cloud environments supporting mission-critical analytics and decision-making capabilities. This position is fully remote. Candidates must hold an active Secret Clearance.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Salary and Benefits Include:
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud-based ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure and AWS technologies.
- Build and optimize large-scale data transformation solutions utilizing PySpark and Spark SQL.
- Develop ingestion frameworks supporting structured and unstructured data sources, including relational databases, APIs, JSON, and flat files.
- Implement full and incremental data loading strategies, including Change Data Capture (CDC).
- Design and support enterprise data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics-ready environments.
- Establish data quality, governance, and security controls including schema validation, RBAC, lineage tracking, and credential management.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve the performance and reliability of cloud data pipelines.
- Support CI/CD implementation and automated deployment processes.
- Partner closely with cloud engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, and software development teams to support modernization initiatives.
- Ensure solutions remain compliant with DoD security requirements and best practices.
Required Qualifications
- Active Secret Clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale data engineering solutions.
- Strong expertise with PySpark, Spark SQL, Python, and SQL.
- Experience building cloud-native data pipelines in Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, and/or AWS Glue.
- Experience with data ingestion, integration, and transformation of structured and unstructured data.
- Experience implementing CDC methodologies and incremental load frameworks.
- Knowledge of data governance, access controls, and data quality methodologies.
- Experience supporting production environments and troubleshooting operational issues.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Azure Data Factory, Redshift, Amazon S3, and Oracle databases.
- Experience supporting federal or DoD cloud modernization programs.
- Familiarity with RMF, STIG, and FedRAMP compliance frameworks.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
Salary and Benefits Include:
- Salary 120,000-140,000+ depending on experience
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