2 days ago
Springfield, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$180k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, development, and operation of scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
- Design and oversee secure API connectors and integrations for internal platforms and external services.
- Establish data processing, storage, database performance, data quality, validation, monitoring, and governance practices.
- Partner with mission stakeholders, analysts, architects, and product teams to define requirements and technical solutions.
- Diagnose and resolve complex data integration, pipeline, and production performance incidents.
- Coordinate with security and compliance teams to implement protections and controls in data systems.
- Maintain architecture and operational documentation and mentor engineers through design discussions and code reviews.
- Contribute to Agile planning, work breakdown, technical dependency management, and platform/tooling evaluations.
Requirements
- Production coding experience in Python, Scala, Java, or a comparable language using Git, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
- Strong experience with ETL/ELT architecture, data modeling, data quality, secure API integrations, authentication troubleshooting, and data exchange issues.
- Experience designing and operating scalable production data pipelines across structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data.
- Experience owning complex data engineering work from requirements and design through production operation.
- Experience collaborating with analytics, data science, product, security, or mission teams and mentoring engineers.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or a related field plus at least five years of relevant experience, or a related master’s degree plus at least three years of relevant experience.
- Active TS/SCI clearance required at start, with the ability to gain and maintain a Poly.
- Preferred qualifications include knowledge of metadata standards, search tools, search-result organization, indexing, catalog content, and GIS-related applications.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs.
Benefits
- Hybrid Monday–Friday schedule with a minimum of 2–3 days onsite.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Retirement benefits including 401(k) matching.
- Educational reimbursement.
- Parental leave.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Tax-saving options.
- Disability and life insurance.
- Pet insurance.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of drug screening, which may include marijuana and other federally controlled substances.
- Posting opened November 10, 2026 and remains open until filled.
About Amentum
Amentum provides engineering, operations and maintenance, logistics, and mission support services to U.S. federal agencies and allied governments, including defense and energy programs. Its business centers on large, long-term government contracts spanning defense, space, nuclear cleanup, and infrastructure, with program management and technical services at the core. Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, it was formed in 2020 from the spinoff of AECOM’s Management Services division.