Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer 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 DoW military and civilian decision makers, analysts, and builders with unprecedented access to enterprise data, tools, and capabilities. Responsibilities Design, build, and operate enterprise-grade Advana data pipelines supporting ingestion, transformation, movement, and storage across Unclassified and NIPR, Secret and SIPR, and Top Secret and JWICS enclaves. Architect 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. Establish medallion‑architecture zones using bronze, silver, and gold tiers to govern data refinement, optimize lineage tracking, and strengthen analytics readiness. Implement data quality monitoring capabilities using Great Expectations, Soda, and custom validation gates to detect drift, measure completeness, and elevate accuracy across distributed lakes. Apply encryption, IAM policies, role‑segregated access, and cross‑domain guards to maintain compliance with cybersecurity directives. Lead engineering of self‑service connection utilities enabling standardized inbound and outbound integration patterns for mission owners. Direct root‑cause analysis, Tier‑3 support responses, performance optimization, and AoA evaluations that recommend modernization paths for cataloging, orchestration, and observability tools. Produce architecture diagrams, engineering guides, governance documents, and performance dashboards that quantify latency reduction, throughput increases, and platform resilience improvements. Mentor multi‑enclave teams and synchronize with customer‑facing groups to translate operational pain points into scalable data engineering enhancements that strengthen Advana enterprise readiness. Requirements Education: Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree. Experience: 10+ years of related experience. Certification: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified: Big Data Specialty. Security clearance level: TS/SCI Eligibility. Salary The likely salary range for this position is $147,292 - $199,278. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Benefits Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post‑tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long‑term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most. We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans #J-18808-Ljbffr