Data Engineer with Secret Clearance — AWS GovCloud ETL

Zantech; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Vacation package

Job summary

Zantech in Arlington, VA is seeking a talented Data Engineer to contribute to our Data Infrastructure and Platform Support project. This on-site role focuses on maintaining and enhancing automated data pipelines feeding the Data and Analytics Platform from Navy systems and external sources.

The ideal candidate has experience building ETL/ELT pipelines in cloud environments, proficiency in Python and SQL, and a DoD-level security clearance.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines in a cloud environment.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with data cleansing, data quality validation, and integrating data from multiple sources.
• DoD 8140.03 qualifying certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+ CE) prior to start.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, monitor, and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines feeding 10–20 data sources and 1–20+ TB of data.
• Build and modify pipelines using AWS Glue, Step Functions, Lake Formation, Athena, and RDS.
• Write modular, parameterized pipeline code for flexible data structures and refresh frequencies.
• Ingest and export data in Parquet, CSV, JSON formats.
• Serve as resolver for Tier 3 tickets on pipeline failures and performance issues.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL pipelines

Data cleansing

Data validation

Education

DoD 8140.03 qualifying certification

AWS certification

Tools

AWS Glue

Step Functions

Lake Formation

Athena

RDS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Zantech in Arlington, VA is seeking a talented Data Engineer to contribute to our Data Infrastructure and Platform Support project. This on-site role focuses on maintaining and enhancing automated data pipelines feeding the Data and Analytics Platform from Navy systems and external sources.

The ideal candidate has experience building ETL/ELT pipelines in cloud environments, proficiency in Python and SQL, and a DoD-level security clearance.