Job Role: AWS Data Engineer
Location: Herndon, VA | Washington, DC | Seattle, WA | Denver, CO
Work Model: Full-Time | On-Site
Experience: 5+ Years
Security Clearance: Active TS/SCI Required
Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship Required
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced AWS MDM / Big Data Engineer to join a highly skilled cloud engineering team working on a mission-critical, security-sensitive government initiative.
In this role, you will design, build, and enhance scalable AWS-based data lake architectures, enabling secure data ingestion, discovery, governance, and analytics across complex enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain AWS data lake solutions using Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and Lake Formation.
- Build and manage metadata catalogs, data discovery frameworks, and schema ingestion processes.
- Develop and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines for large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
- Implement data governance, tagging, and fine-grained access controls.
- Apply attribute-based access control (ABAC) and secure data-sharing practices.
- Optimize data lake architecture and performance for analytics workloads.
- Collaborate with cloud architects, security teams, and engineering stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on Data Engineering experience.
- Strong experience with AWS cloud services and data lake architecture.
- Hands-on expertise with Amazon S3, AWS Glue, and AWS Lake Formation.
- Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines, metadata catalogs, and data ingestion frameworks.
- Strong understanding of data governance, data security, and access management.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance with eligibility for SCI read-on and additional program-specific access approvals.
- U.S. Citizenship is mandatory.
- Must be located within commuting distance of one of the approved work locations.
- Ability to work on-site in a secure government facility.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Data Mesh or Zero Trust Data Architecture.
- Knowledge of Amazon Athena, OpenSearch, and Amazon EMR.
- Experience with enterprise metadata management platforms.
- AWS Professional/Specialty certifications.
- Security+ or CISSP certification.
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This position is listed as full time and onsite.