AWS Data Lake & MDM Engineer - Secure, On-Site

VSO Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits and competitive salary

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

VSO is seeking an experienced AWS MDM / Big Data (Data Lake) Engineer to join a highly skilled team delivering secure cloud engineering capabilities for a mission-critical initiative. You will shape scalable data platforms, make datasets discoverable and governed, and collaborate with senior technical partners.

The role requires 5+ years of data engineering with hands-on AWS delivery, strong data governance, and the ability to work in a highly controlled environment on-site at approved secure

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience with hands-on AWS delivery.
• Experience with data ingestion, transformation, catalogs, and lake architectures.
• Strong understanding of data governance and secure access controls.
• Hands-on AWS cloud experience in highly controlled environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve AWS data lakes using S3, Glue, and Lake Formation.
• Build and maintain metadata catalogs, schema ingestion, and data discovery.
• Create ETL/ELT pipelines and optimize data access for analytics workloads.
• Implement fine-grained data governance, tagging, and attribute-based access controls.

Skills

5+ years data eng

AWS delivery

Tools

Athena

OpenSearch

EMR

Job description

VSO is seeking an experienced AWS MDM / Big Data (Data Lake) Engineer to join a highly skilled team delivering secure cloud engineering capabilities for a mission-critical initiative. You will shape scalable data platforms, make datasets discoverable and governed, and collaborate with senior technical partners.

The role requires 5+ years of data engineering with hands-on AWS delivery, strong data governance, and the ability to work in a highly controlled environment on-site at approved secure