Senior Full Stack Engineer
About The Position
Cherokee Nation Businesses Corp - CFED is seeking a mission-focused Senior Full Stack Engineer to support deployment, configuration, integration, and ongoing operation of HUD’s data infrastructure, including Databricks, within HUD’s enterprise environment. This hands-on role works alongside cloud, data, security, and DevSecOps teams to establish secure, repeatable data, analytics, and AI/ML infrastructure that enables modern data engineering and governance. The successful candidate brings Databricks deployment and operations experience, cloud engineering, automation, and troubleshooting skills, and can work across multiple technologies in a dynamic federal environment. As a senior team member, the engineer will work directly with HUD stakeholders, help guide technical approaches, and provide technical leadership to other engineers. The position is remote. The employer prefers candidates in the Greater Washington, DC metro area or Huntsville, Alabama, to support on-site client meetings as needed. A government contract requires applicants to be U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents and to provide documentation of that status; the basic qualifications also specify U.S. citizenship. The role has no supervisory or management authority. It is subject to Cherokee Federal pre-employment qualifications, drug testing, and potentially a background investigation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- 10 or more years of relevant cloud, data engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps experience.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks deployments and operations.
- Experience working with AWS, Azure, or another major cloud platform.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools and practices.
- Working knowledge of Python, SQL, and/or scripting languages.
- Understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, security, and data integration concepts.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaborative problem-solving skills.
- Must be a U.S. citizen; the posting also states that the government contract restricts the position to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents and requires documentation of status.
- Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer; may occasionally require standing or moving about the office for extended periods.
Nice To Haves
- Located in the Greater Washington, DC metro area or Huntsville, Alabama, to support on-site client meetings as needed.
- Databricks or relevant cloud certification.
- Experience with Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Apache Spark, and Databricks automation tools.
- Experience with enterprise data pipelines, data governance, or modern lakehouse architectures.
- Familiarity with federal cybersecurity requirements, including NIST, FedRAMP, or RMF.
- Experience supporting federal government technology environments.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, configure, and support enterprise data platform workspaces and associated cloud infrastructure.
- Configure compute, storage, identity, access controls, Unity Catalog, and related platform services.
- Automate deployments and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), scripting, APIs, and CI/CD tools.
- Integrate the data platform with enterprise data sources, cloud services, security capabilities, and development tools.
- Support data engineering workloads, ingestion pipelines, and Databricks-based applications.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve platform, integration, performance, and access issues.
- Collaborate with data, cloud, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, and application teams to implement secure and reliable solutions.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, deployment procedures, and operational guidance.
- Work directly with HUD stakeholders, help guide technical approaches, and provide technical leadership to other engineers.
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Up to a 6% 401(k) company match.
- Paid time off.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus prescription drug coverage.
- Basic life and AD&D insurance, with supplemental life options.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Paid holidays.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options.
- Professional development, training, and certification support.
- Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, and identity theft protection.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
