Data Engineer — Secure ETL Pipelines, Onsite SCIF (Secret)

Agile Defense, LLC; Nellis Air Force Base Census-Designated Place (NV); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Agile Defense is seeking a Data Engineer to support secure data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and analytics-ready datasets across our mission-focused environments. You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and stakeholders to process structured and unstructured data using Databricks, Spark, Palantir Foundry, or comparable platforms, while adhering to DoD/security standards.

Candidates must be a U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of data engineering or related experience.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL with data validation and data-quality practices.
• Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain secure data pipelines and analytics-ready datasets.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and stakeholders.
• Process structured and unstructured data using Databricks or Spark.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Databricks

ETL/ELT pipelines

Version control

Agile development

Collaboration

Data validation

Data quality

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Maven Smart Systems

War Data Platform

Docker

CI/CD

MLflow

APIs

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Job description

Agile Defense is seeking a Data Engineer to support secure data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and analytics-ready datasets across our mission-focused environments. You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and stakeholders to process structured and unstructured data using Databricks, Spark, Palantir Foundry, or comparable platforms, while adhering to DoD/security standards.

Candidates must be a U.S.