Data Engineer: Secure DoD/Healthcare Pipelines (Remote)

Imagineeer; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Competitive salary

Health insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Imagineeer is seeking a Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain secure data pipelines and enterprise data platforms within DoD and federal healthcare environments. You will work with data architects, cybersecurity teams, and data scientists to deliver trusted, audit-ready data infrastructure in regulated cloud environments.

This role emphasizes scalable ingestion frameworks, secure data transformations, and adherence to federal cybersecurity, privacy, and records management standards,

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of data engineering experience.
• Experience with DoD or federal civilian agencies.
• Hands-on with IL4/IL5 cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or equivalent).
• Strong SQL and Python proficiency.
• Experience building pipelines with Spark or distributed processing.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps and CI/CD practices.
• Understanding of NIST 800-series security controls and federal compliance.
• Experience encryption, logging, and monitoring controls.
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain secure ETL/ELT pipelines in IL4/IL5 cloud environments.
• Build scalable ingestion frameworks integrating structured and unstructured data sources.
• Develop API-based and streaming ingestion mechanisms.
• Integrate enterprise systems including MHS GENESIS, TRICARE, and United States Transportation Command.
• Enforce data validation, schema enforcement, and metadata tagging standards.
• Implement encryption in transit and at rest per DoD/NIST.
• Develop automated logging, monitoring, and audit trails.
• Support ABAC and RBAC mechanisms.
• Assist RMF documentation and ATO package development.
• Participate in DevSecOps pipeline and CI/CD automation.
• Support data cataloging, metadata management, and lineage tracking.
• Apply data quality checks and fitness-for-use assessments.
• Document engineering methods and pipelines for government sustainment.

Skills

SQL

Python

Spark

DevSecOps

CI/CD

RBAC/ABAC

Public Trust readiness

Education

DoD 8140 certified/approved

Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure Gov)

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Collibra

Apache Atlas

Informatica

Job description

Imagineeer is seeking a Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain secure data pipelines and enterprise data platforms within DoD and federal healthcare environments. You will work with data architects, cybersecurity teams, and data scientists to deliver trusted, audit-ready data infrastructure in regulated cloud environments.

This role emphasizes scalable ingestion frameworks, secure data transformations, and adherence to federal cybersecurity, privacy, and records management standards,