Job#: 3040292 Job Description: Senior Data Engineer
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Location: Remote (EST hours)
Pay Rate: $50-60 / hr
Clearance: Active Top Secret Prefered
Role Overview
This role involves building and extending a data and AI platform for federal background investigation work. Working with the platform's lead engineer, you will develop and maintain pipelines, transformations, and data products. This is a hands-on engineering position in an environment where FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, and CUI handling guide the work.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, test, and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline code to convert 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 with the engineering team and maintain clear documentation of pipelines and processes.
Required Qualifications
Education: A Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a relevant field is required.
Experience: 5-7 years of experience building and maintaining production data pipelines is required. Hands-on ETL / data pipeline development and sound analytical data modeling experience are also necessary.
Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python and SQL is required. Databricks experience (or a comparable lakehouse stack such as Spark, Delta, dbt, Snowflake) and experience with Unity Catalog are required. Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD for data workloads is needed. Familiarity with data governance/cataloging tooling (e.g., Unity Catalog) and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt) is also required. Working familiarity with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or Google Cloud Platform are also acceptable) and version control/CI/CD workflows is necessary. U.S. citizenship is required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in regulated or accredited environments such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC, or CUI handling.
- Government or defense contracting experience.
Soft Skills
- Dependable, self-directed execution with minimal oversight.
- Collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
- Clear documentation and knowledge-sharing.
- Eagerness to grow ownership and learn the compliance environment.
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