Data Engineer, Mission Data Products - Clearance Required
Logistics Management Institute1 month ago
Fort Belvoir, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$128k - $191k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and implementation of scalable data pipelines and data products.
- Integrate and transform data from multiple Army and enterprise sources.
- Develop data models and ontologies supporting applications, reporting, and analysis.
- Design 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, Army Vantage, 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 Defense customer.
- Active Secret clearance and eligibility to meet U.S. Government security-clearance requirements; only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include U.S. Army support, direct Palantir Foundry or Army Vantage experience, PySpark or other distributed data-processing experience, Army acquisition or program-management data familiarity, and cloud, DevSecOps, or infrastructure-as-code experience.
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.