Data Engineer
Delaware Nation Industries3 months ago
Dahlgren, VA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$150k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, troubleshoot, tune, and administer cloud-native AWS data engineering solutions and workflows.
- Develop data ingestion, ETL, integration, transformation, validation, publication, and lifecycle-management capabilities.
- Integrate structured and unstructured data from databases, web services, message traffic, data dumps, documents, and other sources.
- Design data architectures and managed data stores supporting analytics, feature engineering, model training, and real-time inference.
- Create REST APIs and web services for JWAC applications and analytical systems.
- Support AI/ML infrastructure, model hosting, model-ready datasets, agentic workflow orchestration, RAG, and LLM optimization.
- Develop automation, monitoring, alerting, self-healing, data discovery, and search capabilities using AWS-native services.
- Apply FinOps practices, including tagging, cost allocation, right-sizing, storage tiering, query optimization, budget monitoring, and AI/LLM cost tracking.
- Implement DoD Zero Trust and NIST security controls, including IAM, encryption, network segmentation, certificate management, and security monitoring.
- Support security assessments, compliance documentation, data-flow diagrams, control mappings, authorization activities, technical recommendations, and architecture documentation.
- Develop technical proposals, operating procedures, user documentation, training materials, briefings, and knowledge-transfer products.
- Collaborate with government stakeholders, data scientists, analysts, cybersecurity personnel, cloud engineers, and other technical teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in computer science, computer engineering, data engineering, data science, or a related technical discipline.
- At least three years of full-time experience in computer science, data engineering, or data science, including hands-on software development lifecycle experience.
- Recent experience designing or implementing AWS data engineering solutions or cloud-native systems.
- At least one year of experience with cloud-native data warehouse or analytics platforms such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue Data Catalog, or AWS Lake Formation.
- At least one year of experience supporting data science applications and analytical tools such as Python, Jupyter, Amazon SageMaker Studio, AWS Glue DataBrew, or Amazon QuickSight.
- Experience preparing data for data scientists, including data preparation, feature engineering, and model-ready dataset construction.
- At least one year of experience implementing cloud-native data security controls, including IAM, encryption, and network segmentation.
- Ability to meet applicable DoD 8140.03 requirements, including Primary Work Role 422 – Data Architect (Intermediate).
- Ability to obtain and maintain required TS/SCI/SAP access.
- Ability to work onsite in Dahlgren, Virginia, during core hours and support scheduled maintenance.
- Preferred experience with Amazon Bedrock, Knowledge Bases, RAG architectures, agentic services, and LLM prompt or token optimization.
- Preferred experience with AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, AWS KMS, AWS IAM Identity Center, and AWS Certificate Manager.
- Preferred experience applying NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 and DoD Zero Trust Architecture principles.
- Preferred experience with FinOps dashboards and AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Cost and Usage Reports.
- Preferred experience with data discovery, federated search, geospatial or non-geospatial search, knowledge management, classified DoD environments, and relevant AWS, data engineering, or DoD cybersecurity certifications.
Benefits
- Full-time position working onsite at JWAC in Dahlgren, Virginia.
- Requires TS/SCI/SAP access and support for established core hours and scheduled maintenance activities.
About Delaware Nation Industries
Delaware Nation Industries is a tribally owned parent organization for multiple SBA 8(a) and HUBZone-certified subsidiaries providing enterprise IT, cybersecurity, software development, engineering, and professional services to U.S. federal and commercial clients. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Oklahoma City, it serves as a prime contractor and operates in more than 34 states, with corporate offices in the Washington, D.C. area and work performed OCONUS.