Senior Data Engineer
Full-time
Oxenham Group
Senior AWS Data Engineer | Onsite, Washington DC Area | TS/SCI Required
About the Role
Our client, a federal services contractor, needs a senior data engineer to build and run cloud data pipelines supporting a government mission. You'll own the full data lifecycle on AWS, from ingestion through modeling, with a strong emphasis on security and reliability.
What You'll Do
- Build and support batch and incremental data pipelines that pull structured and semi-structured data from a variety of sources
- Develop processing jobs in Python, Spark, and SQL that are fast, stable, and easy to maintain
- Work across the AWS data stack: S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, and Step Functions
- Design lake and warehouse models, including schemas, partition strategies, and metadata catalogs
- Add validation, monitoring, logging, and alerting to production workloads
- Enforce security controls such as IAM roles, encryption, and least-privilege access
- Contribute to automated deployment and infrastructure-as-code for data systems
- Partner with business and technical teams to scope requirements, resolve issues, and document work
Must Haves
- Active TS/SCI clearance (U.S. citizenship required)
- 8+ years in professional IT, with 5+ focused on data engineering or ETL
- 3+ years hands-on with AWS data services
- Expert-level Python and SQL, plus working Spark/PySpark experience
- Track record supporting large-scale production pipelines
- Solid grasp of dimensional modeling, warehousing, and data lake design
- Git and Agile experience
- Clear communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Bachelor's in a technical field or equivalent experience
Nice to Haves
- AWS certification (Data Engineer, Solutions Architect, or similar)
- Terraform or CloudFormation
- Airflow/MWAA or Step Functions orchestration
- Exposure to Databricks, Snowflake, or Informatica
- Streaming experience with Kafka or Kinesis
- Background with federal financial or regulatory data
- Work in FedRAMP or similar compliance-heavy environments
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