Senior Data Engineer

Responsibilities: Act as senior technical analyst for data engineering, data integration, and enterprise-scale data solutions supportingCommand, Control, and Communications (C3)andNC3 modernizationand strategic deterrence missions. Lead design, development, and optimization ofsecure, scalable data-ingestion, transformation, and integration pipelinessupporting testing, experimentation, and rapid prototyping of new C3 and NC3 capabilities. Architectreal-time and batchdata-flow systems to enable data exchange across legacyDepartment of War (DoW) Nuclear Command-and-Control (NC2)systems, sensors, platforms, and modern cloud environments. Integratestructured and unstructuredsources into authoritative datasets while ensuringdata quality, lineage, governance, and compliancewithImpact Level 5 (IL5)andImpact Level 6 (IL6)security requirements. Develop and maintainAPIs, messaging middleware, schemas, data models, and interface control documentsto support system-to-system integration. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, analysts, and integration specialists, supporting growth and consistent engineering practices. Collaborate with systems engineers, software developers, modelers, and mission stakeholders to translate operational needs into data-driven technical requirements and architectures. Support technology evaluations, experiments, demonstrations, and capability-prototype assessments focused on data-centric solutions and distributed architectures. Produce high-quality technical documentation, data-flow diagrams, engineering artifacts, and senior-leader briefings covering findings and recommendations.

Requirements: U.S. citizenshipandactive Top Secret (TS)clearance withSCI eligibility, plus eligibility on day one forNuclear Command and Control – Extremely Sensitive Information (NC2-ESI) , NATO, andSpecial Access Required (SAR)programs; maintain all required clearances and program eligibilities throughout employment. Ability to workfull-time onsite ,5 days a week, atOffutt Air Force Base (AFB)inOffutt AFB, NE. Bachelor’s degreein Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field. 6–10 yearsof progressive experience in data engineering, data integration, or software development, including3+ yearssupportingDoW, DoD, or Intelligence Communitymissions. Demonstrated expertise designing and implementing complexETL/ELTpipelines and integration workflows. Strong proficiency inPython , Java, or comparable enterprise data engineering languages. Hands-on experience with streaming and distributed data frameworks: Apache Kafka , NiFi , Spark, or similar. Experience withrelational databases(PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server) andNoSQL/graph databases. Proven experience developing and consumingRESTful APIsandgRPCin distributed architectures. Experience with cloud technologies ( AWS, Azure, GCP ), hybrid environments, DevSecOpspipelines, CI/CD , Infrastructure as Code(Terraform, Ansible), and containerization ( Docker , Kubernetes ). TechnologiesPython, Java ETL, ELT Apache Kafka, NiFi, Spark PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server RESTful APIs, gRPC AWS, Azure, GCP DevSecOps, CI/CD Terraform, Ansible Docker, Kubernetes

Desired Qualifications: Experience supportingUSSTRATCOM , NC3, or strategic C3 modernization efforts. Knowledge of data-centric modernization, Digital Mission Engineering, andAuthoritative Sources of Truthframeworks. Experience with graph databases (Neo4j, JanusGraph) for modeling complex interdependencies. Familiarity with data governance, data quality frameworks, and lineage tools. Experience working withinIL5/IL6classified environments.