Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Location: Dahlgren, VA - Travel Required: Minimal

Level/Salary Range: $130,000 - $140,000 - Position Type: Full-Time

Mandatory Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree3+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, software development, or related discipline
• 1+ years of experience with Cloud-native data warehouse, or analytics platforms, and supporting data science applications and analytical tools
• Pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship
• Current DoD TS/SCI clearance eligibility day one and prior to entry on duty

Applications Accepted By:

Email: Michelle Might, Talent Acquisition Manager, View email address on click.appcast.io

Email Subject Line: Data Engineer (IMC00867)

The data engineer is responsible for designing, building, securing, and optimizing cloud-native data solutions in AWS that support data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language model (LLM) initiatives.

Work Location: Onsite in Dahlgren, VA.

Basic Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, data science, computer engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, software development, or related discipline, including hands-on software development lifecycle (SDLC) experience.
• 1+ years of experience with:
• Cloud-native data warehouse, or analytics platforms, such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue Data Catalog, or AWS Lake Formation.
• Supporting data science applications and analytical tools such as Python, Jupyter, Amazon SageMaker Studio, AWS Glue DataBrew, or Amazon QuickSight.
• Implementing cloud-native data security controls, including IAM, encryption, and network segmentation.
• Experience preparing data for data scientists, including data preparation, feature engineering, and model-ready dataset construction.
• Ability to meet DoD 8140.03 requirements for the applicable work role, including Data Architect (Intermediate) or equivalent.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with SAP eligibility.
• Pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U.S. Citizenship.
• All applicants must have current DoD TS/SCI clearance eligibility day one and prior to entry on duty.

Desired Qualifications and Skills:

• Experience with:
• Amazon Bedrock, Knowledge Bases, RAG architectures, agentic services, or LLM prompt and token optimization.
• AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS KMS, AWS IAM Identity Center, and AWS Certificate Manager.
• Applying NIST SP 80-53 Rev. 5 and DoD Zero Trust Architecture principals.
• FinOps dashboards and tools such as AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost and Usage Reports
• Data discovery, federated search, geospatial or non-geospatial search, and knowledge-management solutions.
• Supporting classified or highly regulated DoD environments.
• AWS, data engineering, AI/ML, or DoD cybersecurity certifications preferred.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, build, troubleshoot, and tune end-to-end cloud-native data engineering solutions within AWS.
• Develop and administer data ingestion, ETL, integrations, transformations, validations, publications, and data lifecycle workflows.
• Integrate structured and unstructured data from databases, web services, message traffic, data dumps, documents, and other sources.
• Design data architectures and managed data stores that support analytics, feature engineering, model training, and real-time inference.
• Develop solutions using AWS services, including Glue, Athena, Redshift, Kinesis, Lake Formation, Glue Data Catalog, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and related technologies.
• Create REST APIs and web services to expose data to applications, analytics platforms, and downstream systems.
• Support AI/ML infrastructure, including model hosting, model-ready datasets, agentic workflow orchestration, RAG solutions, LLM integrations, and workflow orchestration.
• Develop automation, monitoring, alerting, and operational resilience using AWS-native tools such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
• Implement data discovery and search capabilities using services such as AWS OpenSearch, Glue Data Catalog, and Kendra.
• Apply FinOps best practices, including resource tagging, cost allocation, right-sizing, storage tiering, query optimization, budget monitoring, cost-per workload analysis, and AI/LLM cost tracking.
• Implement and maintain DoD Zero Trust and NIST 800-53 security controls across data engineering and AI environments.
• Configure identity and access management, least-privilege access, encryption at rest and in transit, network segmentation, certificate management, and security monitoring.
• Support security assessments, compliance documentation, data-flow diagrams, control mappings, and authorization activities.
• Gather requirements, evaluate data sources, communicate technical recommendations, and document architecture, processes, risks, costs, and implementation decisions.
• Develop briefings, technical proposals, operating procedures, user documentation, training materials, and knowledge-transfer products.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders, data scientists, analysts, cloud engineers, cybersecurity teams, and other technical personnel.
• Other duties as assigned.

Salary and Benefits Information:

Please see the salary information listed at the beginning of this document, which is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. All salaries will be based on relevant experience, geographic location, and position and/or contractual requirements, which could fall outside of the listed range.

Full-time positions at IMC are eligible to participate in any or all of the benefit programs offered, including 401(k) with a 3% employer match, paid time off, paid holidays, FSA spending, dental, vision, health insurance, company-sponsored AD&D, and life insurance. Additional voluntary benefits are offered, such as voluntary life, AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet insurance. Benefits are subject to change. Positions at IMC may also be eligible for a bonus and/or other incentives.