AWS MDM & Big Data Engineer — On-Site Data Lake Architect

Select Search Associates LLC; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Select Search Associates LLC (SSA) seeks an experienced AWS MDM / Big Data Engineer to join a highly skilled team delivering cloud engineering capabilities for a mission-critical, security-sensitive initiative.

You will help shape the next generation of secure enterprise data platforms, making complex datasets discoverable, governed, and useful through scalable AWS data engineering and modern data architecture.

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 and ability to work effectively in highly controlled environments.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

AWS data engineering

Amazon S3

AWS Glue

Data governance

ETL/ELT pipelines

TS/SCI clearance

Tools

Athena

OpenSearch

EMR

Job description

Select Search Associates LLC (SSA) seeks an experienced AWS MDM / Big Data Engineer to join a highly skilled team delivering cloud engineering capabilities for a mission-critical, security-sensitive initiative.

You will help shape the next generation of secure enterprise data platforms, making complex datasets discoverable, governed, and useful through scalable AWS data engineering and modern data architecture.