Chief Data Engineer - Cloud Data Platform Lead

CACI International

United States

Remote

USD 115,000 - 252,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

CACI International is seeking a Chief Data Engineer to lead the development of an enterprise, cloud-based data platform for DHS OIG. You will architect data pipelines, migrate from legacy ETL to cloud-native solutions, and ensure data quality, governance, and security across all data assets while leading a team of data engineers in secure Azure Government environments.

You will guide data architecture, lakehouse design, and advanced analytics to enable AI workloads, analytics, and

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree with 15 years of data engineering/architecture experience or equivalent
Proven leadership in enterprise data integration and ETL/ELT solutions
Strong cloud data engineering experience with Azure or AWS/GCP

Responsibilities

Lead design, development, testing, and deployment of enterprise data ingestion and transformation pipelines
Oversee migration from legacy ETL tools to cloud-based data integration solutions
Architect scalable data integration patterns supporting batch, streaming, and metadata-driven pipelines
Lead production data pipeline operations, monitoring, and data quality validation
Design integration with DHS data fabric, Delta Sharing, APIs, and secure file transfer
Coordinate phased data onboarding and production deployments
Provide technical leadership for lakehouse design, data modeling, and analytics engineering
Supervise data engineering resources and coordinate surge support for complex analytics
Create comprehensive technical documentation and runbooks
Collaborate with government stakeholders to enable AI model consumption of datasets