Data Engineering SME: Enterprise Data Pipelines & Ontology

Doist; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Platinum Technologies, a Northern Virginia based firm, seeks a Data Engineering Subject Matter Expert to lead design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise data pipelines and integration frameworks for Object-Based Intelligence mission requirements.

The role requires an active TS/SCI with CI polygraph and involves mentoring personnel, developing scalable data architectures, and collaborating with government stakeholders to ensure data quality, governance, and interoperability across

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. citizen with an active TS/SCI + CI polygraph.
• Extensive experience designing enterprise-scale data solutions and integration architectures.
• Proven ETL/ELT development across heterogeneous data sources.
• Strong data modeling, governance, and metadata management capabilities.
• Experience with semantic web technologies and knowledge graphs.
• Clear communication to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and implementation of enterprise data solutions for mission requirements.
• Design scalable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and integrating data from multiple sources.
• Develop data integration frameworks supporting ontologies and knowledge graphs (RDF/OWL/SPARQL).
• Collaborate with engineers and government stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Design architectures for cloud-native, distributed, and hybrid environments.
• Establish data quality, governance, metadata, lineage, and interoperability across assets.
• Optimize processing performance with modern distributed frameworks and storage tech.
• Support AI/ML initiatives by providing curated data and semantic context.
• Develop monitoring, validation, and testing capabilities; document data flows and standards.

Skills

Data modeling

Metadata management

Data governance

Semantic Web technologies

Ontology-based data integration

ETL/ELT pipelines

Communication

Education

Advanced degree

Bachelor's degree + 17 years experience

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Graph databases

NoSQL databases

Distributed data processing

Job description

Platinum Technologies, a Northern Virginia based firm, seeks a Data Engineering Subject Matter Expert to lead design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise data pipelines and integration frameworks for Object-Based Intelligence mission requirements.

The role requires an active TS/SCI with CI polygraph and involves mentoring personnel, developing scalable data architectures, and collaborating with government stakeholders to ensure data quality, governance, and interoperability across