Data Engineering Architect - Federal IT (Onsite DC)

Tetrad Digital Integrity LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Tetrad Digital Integrity LLC seeks a Data Engineering Software Developer to join a new Agile team in Washington, DC. You will architect, build, and integrate data infrastructure for DoD-focused missions, with a strong emphasis on security and scalable pipelines.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance, hands-on experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, Elastic Stack, Kafka, and cloud-native tools on OpenShift. This onsite position supports government modernization initiatives and analytics dashboards.

Qualifications

• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance required.
• Current Security+ or equivalent/higher.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines (ETL/ELT).
• Experience with data warehouse and/or data lake technologies (e.g., AWS Redshift, S3, Hadoop, Snowflake).
• Proficiency with Python, Java, SQL, and shell scripting.
• Experience with Elastic Stack and/or Kafka for data ingestion/processing.
• Familiarity with DoD network data and related data models.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized pipelines (Git/Bitbucket).

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data systems and pipelines for analytics and reporting.
• Unifies data from multiple systems into a consistent, accessible platform with data quality and security.
• Implements pipelines with Kafka, Elastic Stack, AWS, and OpenShift; supports Kibana dashboards with React/JS/HTML.
• Develops data warehouses and data lakes; optimizes for performance, scalability, and cost.
• Analyzes and optimizes ingestion throughput, queries, indexing, and storage across Elastic and Kafka.
• Automates ETL/ELT processes, validation, monitoring, and CI/CD integration.
• Collaborates with analysts and visualization engineers; documents architecture and procedures.
• Troubleshoots data ingestion, processing, and platform performance issues.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

Shell scripting

Elastic Stack

Kafka

AWS

OpenShift

CI/CD

DevOps

Git

Linux/UNIX

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

React

Job description

Tetrad Digital Integrity LLC seeks a Data Engineering Software Developer to join a new Agile team in Washington, DC. You will architect, build, and integrate data infrastructure for DoD-focused missions, with a strong emphasis on security and scalable pipelines.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance, hands-on experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, Elastic Stack, Kafka, and cloud-native tools on OpenShift. This onsite position supports government modernization initiatives and analytics dashboards.