Staff Data Engineer - Clearance Required
Logistics Management Institute28 days ago
Arlington, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$130k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and implementation of scalable data pipelines and data products.
- Integrate and transform data from Army and enterprise sources.
- Develop data models and ontology for application modernization, reporting, and analysis.
- Design systems for data quality, lineage, security, observability, and long-term maintainability.
- Establish engineering standards for testing, source control, deployment, and operations.
- Partner with software engineers, product designers, and customer stakeholders.
- Review technical designs, mentor engineers, and resolve complex data challenges.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least eight years of experience building production data systems.
- Strong proficiency with Python, SQL, and modern data-engineering patterns.
- Experience designing data pipelines and products on Palantir Foundry or a comparable enterprise data platform.
- Experience with data modeling, ontology, data quality, and lineage.
- Strong software-engineering fundamentals, including testing, source control, CI/CD, and monitoring.
- Experience supporting a Department of War customer.
- Active Secret clearance and current U.S. government security-clearance eligibility; only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
- Experience supporting the U.S. Army and direct experience with Army Vantage are desired.
- Experience with PySpark or other distributed data-processing technologies is desired.
- Familiarity with Army ERPs and SAP-based systems is desired.
- Experience with cloud platforms, DevSecOps, and infrastructure as code is desired.
- Familiarity with API design and development, backend services, and service orchestration is desired.
About Logistics Management Institute
Logistics Management Institute (LMI) provides consulting, software development, and analytics services to U.S. federal agencies, with strengths in supply chain, digital engineering, AI, and modeling and simulation. It builds and sustains government systems—such as Army acquisition and contract-writing platforms—while delivering data-driven modernization and program support across defense, space, healthcare, and energy. Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI operates as a privately held contractor to the public sector.