10 days ago
McLean, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$155k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a lead data engineer and technical advisor for enterprise data modernization, architecture decisions, and sponsor priorities.
- Translate mission needs into data engineering requirements, technical designs, integration plans, and interface specifications.
- Architect and assess enterprise data platforms and batch or streaming pipelines for ingestion, transformation, storage, distribution, and access.
- Develop and evaluate data models, schemas, APIs, data contracts, exchange formats, ETL/ELT approaches, messaging, and federated or virtualized data access.
- Define approaches for metadata, cataloging, lineage, data quality, observability, master and reference data, lifecycle management, access controls, and interoperability.
- Develop prototypes, proofs of concept, benchmarks, test strategies, and technical trade studies to validate integration approaches and reduce implementation risk.
- Produce architecture documentation, engineering requirements, interface documentation, implementation plans, technical assessments, and executive briefings.
- Coordinate government, MITRE, and contractor teams and mentor staff supporting data engineering efforts.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree, 6 years with a master's degree, 3 years with a PhD, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in computer science, computer engineering, data science, data engineering, information systems, systems engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field.
- Experience leading technical tasks or small multidisciplinary engineering teams and designing, implementing, or modernizing enterprise data architectures, integration solutions, and production data pipelines.
- Strong proficiency with SQL and experience with a modern programming language such as Python, Java, or Scala.
- Experience with ETL/ELT, APIs, batch and streaming processing, data modeling, schema design, and interface development.
- Experience with cloud or hybrid data platforms, distributed data processing, scalable storage and compute, and warehouse, lake, or lakehouse architectures.
- Strong understanding of metadata, cataloging, lineage, data quality, observability, lifecycle management, interoperability standards, and enterprise information sharing.
- Ability to evaluate scalability, performance, resilience, security, and cost tradeoffs and resolve complex integration risks and dependencies.
- Experience developing technical requirements, architecture artifacts, interface documentation, implementation plans, and test or verification approaches.
- Strong understanding of Intelligence Community missions, organizations, data-sharing environments, interoperability challenges, security considerations, and enterprise coordination.
- Ability to work effectively in complex, classified, matrixed, fast-paced sponsor environments and communicate recommendations to senior executives.
- Active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph U.S. government-issued security clearance and U.S. citizenship required for security-clearance eligibility.
- Preferred qualifications include an advanced technical degree, Intelligence Community or national security experience, modern integration architecture experience, DevSecOps or DataOps experience, technology evaluation experience, AI/ML data-enablement experience, legacy modernization experience, and cross-IC coordination experience.
Benefits
- MITRE offers competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- The role is full-time and requires working onsite five days per week in McLean, Virginia.
- The position requires or must obtain a Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph clearance within one year of hire.
About MITRE
MITRE is a nonprofit systems engineering and applied research organization that operates multiple federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies. It builds prototypes, frameworks (such as the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base), and provides technical guidance across defense, cybersecurity, aviation, and healthcare. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, MITRE runs FFRDCs for sponsors including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and health agencies.