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Senior Data Engineer
Artech LLC
🌏 Worldwide
Remote
Senior
3 months ago
$60 – $62 / hour
- AI
- FedRAMP
- NIST
- IaC
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Python
- SQL
- ETL
- Data Modeling
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- Databricks
- dbt
- Snowflake
- CMMC
- Unity Catalog
- Airflow
3 months ago
Location : Remote
Duration : 12 Months
Salary Range: $60.00 - $62.00/Hour on W2 (Without Benefits).
Applicants must be willing to work on W2.
Clearance : Must be able to obtain and maintain a T5/SSBI federally adjudicated clearance, active TS clearance is preferred.
Job Description:
- Peraton is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to support critical missions within Peraton's Risk Decision Group.
- This is a remote role all and TS clearance is preferred- if not, candidates will need to obtain one within a few months but can begin working without one.
- This role builds and extends a greenfield data and AI platform supporting federal background investigation work.
- Working alongside the platform's lead engineer, you'll develop and maintain the pipelines, transformations, and data products that move the platform forward — growing your ownership as the platform matures.
- This is hands-on engineering in a high-trust environment where FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, and CUI handling shape how the work is built.
- 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 set by the lead platform engineer.
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) 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.
- 5-7 years building and maintaining production data pipelines.
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Hands-on ETL / data pipeline development and sound analytical data modeling.
- Working familiarity with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred, AWS or GCP fine) and version control / CI/CD workflows.
- Solid analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
- Databricks experience (or a comparable lakehouse stack: Spark, Delta, dbt, Snowflake).
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD for data workloads.
- Experience in regulated or accredited environments: FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC, or CUI handling.
- Active security clearance (T5/SSBI or higher).
- Government or defense contracting experience.
- Familiarity with data governance / cataloging tooling (e.g., Unity Catalog) and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt).
- Dependable, self-directed execution with minimal oversight.
- Strong collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
- Clear documentation and knowledge-sharing.
- Eagerness to grow ownership and learn the compliance environment.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field required.
- Remote role, TS clearance preferred, US Citizens only
Senior Data Engineer · Artech LLC