Senior Data Engineer (Secret Clearance)

Location

Remote

Job Type

Full-Time

Clearance Requirement

Secret Clearance (Top Secret Preferred)

U.S.Citizenship is Required.

Position Overview

Praescient Analytics is seeking a highly skilled and visionary Data Engineer – Senior to provide technical leadership and big-picture oversight for the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) and Enterprise Information Technology (EIT) application development data pipelines.

In this role, you will articulate the data architecture strategy, conceptualize and experiment with alternative data processing approaches, and validate data models against rigorous national security and scalability requirements. Working without supervision on highly complex projects, you will bridge the gap between legacy data stores and modern, cloud-native data streams within an advanced AWS GovCloud environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional software teams, lead data transformation efforts, and exercise wide latitude for independent judgment to ensure our nation's background investigation data is secure, accurate, and readily accessible.

Key Responsibilities

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Data Strategy & Leadership

Conceptualize, experiment with, and articulate alternative technical approaches to data architecture. Create data pipeline, ETL/ELT, schema, and interface specification documents, validating designs against strict federal requirements.

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Pipeline Integration

Provide technical and big-picture oversight for the development of new or enhanced data source integrations, utilizing Python, Scala, or Java as core competencies.

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Cloud Transformation & Modernization

Lead the modernization of legacy data structures and their transformation into cloud-native data lakes and data warehouses specifically optimized for AWS GovCloud.

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Data Orchestration & Ingestion

Deeply engage with automated orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow,...