Data Engineer

GD Information Technology • Fairview Park, VT

18d • Onsite

About The Position

Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as Data Engineer at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. The Advana team is seeking a Data Engineer to join their program. Advana is the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s (CDAO) enterprise-wide, multi-domain data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) platform that provides all DoD military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities.

Requirements

• 3 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required: Yes
• Top Secret/SCI Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI
• Top Secret/SCI Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI

Nice To Haves

• Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified: Big Data Specialty

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains Advana ingestion, transformation, and storage pipelines supporting operational analytics across Unclassified and NIPR, Secret and SIPR, and Top Secret and JWICS enclaves.
• Develops automated processing flows using Apache Airflow, Spark, AWS Glue, and Kafka to support reliable data movement into medallion-architecture zones.
• Implements data connections, schema mappings, and structured interfaces to support enterprise data marketplaces and downstream tooling teams.
• Applies data quality controls using rule engines, profiling utilities, and anomaly-detection checks to validate accuracy, completeness, and consistency at the source and lake layers.
• Configures encryption, access policies, and data-handling rules to meet DoD cybersecurity requirements for mission environments.
• Executes Tier-2 and Tier-3 support actions, performing incident diagnosis, SLA tracking, and pipeline restoration tasks.
• Builds utilities for standardized inbound and outbound data acquisition, supporting analytics teams, application developers, and operational mission users.
• Documents data pipelines, workflows, storage models, and dependency chains in repositories such as Confluence, GitLab, and SharePoint.
• Produces operational metrics capturing throughput, failure rates, restart patterns, and quality scores to guide engineering improvements.
• Collaborates with platform, infrastructure, and data governance teams to incorporate architectural updates, security changes, and tool enhancements into ongoing operations, strengthening stability and mission value across all Advana enclaves.

Benefits

• 401K with company match
• competitive pay
• paid time off
• variety of medical plan options
• dental plan options
• a vision plan
• full flex work weeks where possible
• variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• short and long-term disability benefits
• life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed