Senior Data Engineer
About The Position
Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as Senior 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 Senior 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
- 10+ years of related experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified: Big Data Specialty
- Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree
- US Citizenship Required: Yes
- Top Secret/SCI Clearance
Nice To Haves
- Data Architecture Development
- Database Architecture
Responsibilities
- Designs, builds, and operates enterprise-grade Advana data pipelines supporting ingestion, transformation, movement, and storage across Unclassified and NIPR, Secret and SIPR, and Top Secret and JWICS enclaves.
- Architects scalable frameworks using Apache Airflow, Kafka, AWS Glue, Databricks, and Spark to deliver automated, fault-tolerant flows aligned with mission requirements for Combatant Commands, Joint Staff elements, and interagency partners.
- Establishes medallion-architecture zones using bronze, silver, and gold tiers to govern data refinement, optimize lineage tracking, and strengthen analytics readiness.
- Implements data quality monitoring capabilities using Great Expectations, Soda, and custom validation gates to detect drift, measure completeness, and elevate accuracy across distributed lakes.
- Applies encryption, IAM policies, role-segregated access, and cross-domain guards to maintain compliance with cybersecurity directives.
- Leads engineering of self-service connection utilities enabling standardized inbound and outbound integration patterns for mission owners.
- Directs root-cause analysis, Tier-3 support responses, performance optimization, and AoA evaluations that recommend modernization paths for cataloging, orchestration, and observability tools.
- Produces architecture diagrams, engineering guides, governance documents, and performance dashboards that quantify latency reduction, throughput increases, and platform resilience improvements.
- Mentors multi-enclave teams and synchronizes with customer-facing groups to translate operational pain points into scalable data engineering enhancements that strengthen Advana enterprise readiness.
Benefits
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay
- Paid time off
- Variety of medical plan options
- Dental plan options
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
