Data Engineer

Nightwing Intelligence Solutions•Sterling, VA

7h•Onsite

About The Position

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. The Data Engineer will lead the data architecture and engineering delivery that enables AI/ML/GenAI solutions, ensuring data is trusted, secure, observable, and scalable from ingestion through consumption. You will design and operationalize modern data and retrieval foundations to support LLM-powered applications including patterns such as RAG, embeddings, vector search, and governed access to structured and unstructured data. You will be partnering with a team working with data science, ML engineering, and product stakeholders to translate use cases into production-ready pipelines and platforms with strong data governance, lineage, quality controls, and monitoring. This role blends hands-on technical ability with delivery management and team development, driving consistent engineering standards and measurable outcomes in client environments.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Information Systems or related field.
6+ years of consulting experience leading delivery teams, including onshore and offshore team members.
6+ years of experience gathering non-functional requirements and defining application architecture frameworks, including validation and testing deliverables.
5+ years of experience working in an AI environment.
5+ years of experience translating requirements into client ready design documents.
5+ years of experience in software application architecture analysis, design, and delivery.
5+ years of experience executing full system development life cycle implementations.
TS/SCI with Polygraph Required Day 1

Nice To Haves

Certifications in AI/ML technologies and Cloud platforms, such as AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty, Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Azure AI Engineer, Azure Data Scientist, or Azure Solutions Architect.
5 + years of experience in Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning.
5+ years of experience in Generative AI/LLMs, preferably experienced in delivering and productionizing.
5+ years of experience in machine learning model development, natural language processing, and data analysis; Experienced in Supervised and Unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model training, and deployment.
5+ year of experience in implementing cloud-based AI/ML workloads on any of AWS, Microsoft and Azure.

Responsibilities

Lead the data architecture and engineering delivery that enables AI/ML/GenAI solutions.
Ensure data is trusted, secure, observable, and scalable from ingestion through consumption.
Design and operationalize modern data and retrieval foundations to support LLM-powered applications including patterns such as RAG, embeddings, vector search, and governed access to structured and unstructured data.
Partner with data science, ML engineering, and product stakeholders to translate use cases into production-ready pipelines and platforms with strong data governance, lineage, quality controls, and monitoring.
Drive consistent engineering standards and measurable outcomes in client environments.