23 hours ago
Aberdeen, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$155k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and maintainable data platforms and pipelines in cloud-based and self-hosted environments.
- Develop batch and streaming processing solutions for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Create data models, schemas, interfaces, and storage architectures supporting mission and analytical requirements.
- Evaluate and improve data quality, lineage, governance, access controls, performance, reliability, and secure data handling.
- Translate sponsor and stakeholder needs into technical requirements and engineering solutions.
- Analyze data flows between legacy systems and modern data platforms and identify integration and interoperability gaps.
- Work with Army NGC2 sponsors, vendors, and industry partners during lab and field integration events.
- Apply software engineering practices including automated testing, version control, code review, modular design, observability, and continuous integration.
- Diagnose complex system, performance, reliability, and data-quality problems and evaluate emerging data technologies.
- Lead technical workstreams or complex projects involving multiple contributors, dependencies, risks, and stakeholders.
- Mentor engineers, communicate complex technical concepts, transfer knowledge across teams, and contribute to applied research, prototypes, and technical publications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a related field with 8 years of relevant experience.
- Advanced hands-on proficiency with distributed data processing, cloud-based data platforms, data lakehouse architectures, ETL orchestration, data modeling, and data governance.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with data integration, data flows, data formats, interoperability, batch and streaming processing, and data quality assessment.
- Experience with Linux-based development environments, Git, cloud platforms, containerization, and orchestration.
- Active Secret U.S. Government-issued security clearance.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI U.S. Government-issued security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for security-clearance eligibility.
- Preferred qualifications include a relevant master ’s degree with 6 years of experience, a relevant PhD with 3 years of experience, or an active DoD Top Secret clearance.
Benefits
- MITRE offers competitive benefits, meaningful career development, applied research opportunities, and a culture of innovation and technical excellence.
- The position requires a minimum of three days per week onsite and is designated as onsite.
- The role supports work with national-security sponsors and may include participation in MITRE’s internal research and development program.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
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.