Data Engineer
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
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Medical plan options
- Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- Vision plan
- 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
