ME00580-Data/Systems Engineer

Location
Annapolis Junction, MD
Workplace
On-site
Compensation
$170k – $235k

About this role

Job Summary

  • Seeking a Data/Systems Engineer to support a mission-critical environment by designing, integrating, and sustaining secure, compliant dataflow and system solutions
  • This role combines systems engineering, data engineering, and compliance expertise to enable reliable data ingestion, transformation, and routing across enterprise platforms
  • The engineer provides technical direction across the full systems engineering lifecycle, ensuring solutions align with legal, policy, and compliance directives while supporting evolving mission data requirements

Primary Responsibilities

  • Plan, design, and integrate secure, compliant dataflow solutions aligned with legal, policy, and mission directives
  • Provide technical leadership across the full systems engineering lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, and sustainment
  • Define system interfaces, including data origination, destination, stimulus, and data characteristics
  • Develop and implement data engineering solutions to support ingestion, transformation, and routing of enterprise data
  • Analyze and work with IC-provided datasets to identify, map, and model data transformation routines
  • Document and maintain data flows, routing logic, and system interfaces to support enterprise data repositories
  • Utilize tools such as Apache NiFi to support data ingestion, processing, and workflow automation
  • Work within Linux environments to develop, deploy, and maintain data solutions
  • Interact with data ontologies and schemas, including structured data formats such as XML, CSV, and JSON
  • Execute analytic queries and support data analysis across enterprise platforms
  • Ensure solutions align with policy, compliance, and data governance requirements

Required Qualifications

  • Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph (MD Customer)
  • Bachelor's Degree with 20 years' experience
  • Experience planning and integrating secure, compliant systems and dataflow solutions
  • Strong background in data engineering and systems engineering principles
  • Experience defining and documenting system interfaces and data flows
  • Proficiency with Apache NiFi or similar dataflow tools
  • Experience working in Linux environments
  • Experience working with structured data formats (XML, CSV, JSON)
  • Experience with database technologies (MySQL and/or NoSQL)
  • Experience performing data mapping, transformation, and ingestion
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Intelligence Community (IC) data environments and datasets

Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

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Top Benefits

  • 11 Paid holidays
  • Minimum of 3 weeks PTO
  • Company sponsored group medical plan
  • Company paid dental
  • Vision
  • Life insurance
  • STD/LTD plans