Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

Our client is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build authoritative data products supporting Army acquisition and program operations. This engineer will own data pipelines, models, and ontology.

**Responsibilities**

• Own the architecture and implementation of scalable data pipelines and data products.

• Integrate and transform data from multiple Army and enterprise sources.

• Develop data models and ontology that support applications, reporting, and analysis.

• Design for data quality, lineage, security, observability, and long-term maintainability.

• Establish engineering standards for testing, source control, deployment, and operations.

• Partner with software engineers, product designers, and customer stakeholders.

• Review technical designs, mentor engineers, and resolve complex data challenges.

**Qualifications**

**Minimum Qualifications**

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Eight or more years of experience building production data systems.

• Strong proficiency with Python, SQL, and modern data-engineering patterns.

• Experience designing data pipelines and products on enterprise data platforms.

• Experience with data modeling, ontology, data quality, and lineage.

• Strong software-engineering fundamentals, including testing, source control, CI/CD, and monitoring.

• Experience supporting a Department of Defense customer.

• Active Secret clearance.