AWS MDM & Data Lake Engineer — TS/SCI Cleared, On-Site

VSO Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

VSO is seeking an experienced AWS MDM / Big Data Engineer to join a skilled team delivering cloud engineering capabilities for a mission-critical, security-sensitive initiative. Shape secure enterprise data platforms, making complex datasets discoverable, governed, and usable through scalable AWS data engineering and modern data architecture.

You will work with experienced technical partners in a collaborative environment where careful engineering and measurable results matter, contributing to

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

Data engineering

AWS cloud

Data governance

ETL/ELT pipelines

Secure environment

Tools

Athena

OpenSearch

EMR

Job description

VSO is seeking an experienced AWS MDM / Big Data Engineer to join a skilled team delivering cloud engineering capabilities for a mission-critical, security-sensitive initiative. Shape secure enterprise data platforms, making complex datasets discoverable, governed, and usable through scalable AWS data engineering and modern data architecture.

You will work with experienced technical partners in a collaborative environment where careful engineering and measurable results matter, contributing to