Data Engineer, Lead - Secure AI-Driven Systems

Two Six Technologies; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Retirement Benefits

Paid Leave

Tuition Assistance

Professional Development

Job summary

Two Six Technologies is seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to join a cross-functional team in Arlington, Virginia. You will advance mission tracking tech with AI/ML, designing data sharing, storage strategies, and scalable data models across microservices.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in Python or Go, strong PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch experience, and familiarity with Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Eligibility for a TS clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or comparable experience.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience with Python and/or Go in highly distributed environments.
• 4+ years designing and optimizing relational schemas in PostgreSQL and experience using Elasticsearch for indexing.
• 3+ years implementing and scaling event-driven architectures with Kafka and leveraging Redis for caching.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a TS security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Partner across teams to design and support the implementation of a seamless, decentralized, and secure data sharing framework that ensures consistent data exchange across different platform instances.
• Work closely with backend and database teams to align storage strategies across relational, indexing, and time-series engines.
• Maintain and align complex, multi-domain data models across dozens of microservices, ensuring data integrity and system-wide consistency.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to scale data systems across bare-metal and cloud environments.
• Design and implement resilient data patterns (CQRS, secure store-and-forward) for data security and strict access controls in a distributed microservices environment.

Skills

Python

Go (Golang)

Distributed systems

Data modeling

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Redis

Kubernetes

AWS

TS clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Git

AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Two Six Technologies is seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer to join a cross-functional team in Arlington, Virginia. You will advance mission tracking tech with AI/ML, designing data sharing, storage strategies, and scalable data models across microservices.

Ideal candidates have 6+ years in Python or Go, strong PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch experience, and familiarity with Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Eligibility for a TS clearance is required.