Senior Data Platform Engineer

Peraton • ,

3d • $104,000 - $166,000 • Remote

About The Position

Peraton is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build and extend a greenfield data and AI platform supporting federal background investigation work. Working alongside the platform's lead engineer, the engineer will develop and maintain pipelines, transformations, and data products, with increasing ownership as the platform matures. This is hands-on engineering in a high-trust environment shaped by FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, and CUI handling requirements. The work is 100% remote. An active clearance is preferred, and candidates able to obtain one are encouraged to apply.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a T5/SSBI federally adjudicated clearance; an active clearance is preferred.
• Four years building and maintaining production data pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Hands-on ETL and data pipeline development experience and sound analytical data modeling.
• Working familiarity with cloud data platforms; Azure preferred, with AWS or GCP also acceptable.
• Familiarity with version control and CI/CD workflows.
• Solid analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience with a BS/BA, or minimum of 6 years with an MS/MA.

Nice To Haves

• Databricks experience or experience with a comparable lakehouse stack such as Spark, Delta, dbt, or Snowflake.
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and CI/CD for data workloads.
• Experience in regulated or accredited environments, including FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC, or CUI handling.
• Active security clearance (T5/SSBI or higher).
• Government or defense contracting experience.
• Familiarity with data governance or cataloging tools such as Unity Catalog and orchestration tools such as Airflow or dbt.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline code that turns raw and synthetic data into governed, analysis-ready data products.
• Extend the platform following the architecture, patterns, and standards established by the lead platform engineer.
• Contribute to Terraform infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines that promote work into the accredited production environment.
• Monitor data quality, pipeline reliability, and performance; troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Apply data governance, cataloging, and access-control practices within the established framework.
• Support the data science and ML team by delivering the governed datasets and tooling they need.
• Operate within FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, and CUI constraints in day-to-day engineering.
• Collaborate closely with the engineering team and maintain clear documentation of pipelines and processes.

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Life insurance
• Health savings account
• Short- and long-term disability
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Parental leave
• 401(k)
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation
• Company-paid holidays
• Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior