Data Lake Engineer with Security Clearance

Base-2 Solutions; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Data Lake Engineer to support USSOUTHCOM J26 Enhanced Domain Awareness. You will develop and optimize data pipelines, APIs, and front-end interfaces for geospatial and structured data visualization across ESRI ArcGIS environments, Unity Catalog, and cloud-based databases.

The role requires experience with Databricks, Kubernetes, and secure API authentication, plus CI/CD and scalable web apps for data visualization and analytics. Active Top Secret/SCI is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field (or 5 years equivalent experience).
• Experience building and deploying full-stack apps for data visualization, dashboards, and analytics in ESRI GIS and cloud databases.
• Experience implementing RESTful and GraphQL APIs for data retrieval and integration.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes deployments; API authentication.
• Experience optimizing queries for large geospatial and structured datasets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize data integration pipelines, APIs, and front-end interfaces for geospatial data visualization.
• Work with Data Lakes platforms (Databricks, Kubernetes, ESRI ArcGIS).
• Build scalable, secure web apps with metadata-driven search and retrieval features.
• Integrate APIs for data interoperability and dashboards within ESRI GIS platforms and cloud databases.
• Deploy full-stack apps enabling data visualization and analytics; implement REST/GraphQL APIs.

Skills

Full-stack development

Data engineering

API design

CI/CD

Kubernetes

ESRI ArcGIS

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

5+ years of equivalent experience in data engineering

Tools

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Containerization

Job description

Job Description Position Summary Base-2 Solutions is seeking a Data Lake Engineer to support USSOUTHCOM J26 ENHANCED DOMAIN AWARENESS task order. The role involves developing, maintaining, and optimizing data integration pipelines, API services, and front-end interfaces for accessing and visualizing geospatial and structured data. The candidate must be proficient in Data Lakes platforms such as Databricks, Kubernetes, ESRI ArcGIS environments, and cloud-based data engineering.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize data integration pipelines, API services, and front-end interfaces for geospatial and structured data visualization.
• Work with Data Lakes platforms including Databricks, Kubernetes, and ESRI ArcGIS environments.
• Build scalable, secure web applications with metadata-driven search and retrieval features.
• Integrate APIs for seamless data interoperability.
• Develop and deploy full-stack applications enabling data visualization, dashboarding, and analytics within ESRI-based GIS platforms, Unity Catalog, and cloud-based databases.
• Implement RESTful and GraphQL APIs for data retrieval and integration between Data Lake, ESRI ArcGIS, and external sources.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments in Kubernetes, and API authentication mechanisms to ensure secure access to research products.
• Optimize database queries and indexing strategies for large-scale geospatial and structured datasets. Required Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field OR a minimum of 5 years of equivalent experience in full-stack development and data engineering.
• Demonstrated experience developing and deploying full-stack applications for data visualization, dashboarding, and analytics within ESRI-based GIS platforms, Unity Catalog, and cloud-based databases.
• Experience implementing RESTful and GraphQL APIs for data retrieval and integration.
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments in Kubernetes, and API authentication mechanisms.
• Experience optimizing database queries and indexing strategies for large-scale geospatial and structured datasets.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate.
• ESRI ArcGIS Developer Certification.

Required Education and Experience Equivalency

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• OR 5 years of equivalent experience in full-stack development and data engineering.

Required Certifications

• None specified.

Required Security Clearance

• Active Top Secret/SCI

Pay & Benefit Highlights Compensation

• Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
• Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
• Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).

Health

• 100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.
• 100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
• 100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.

Income Protection

• 100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.
• 100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.
• 100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).
• 100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.

Retirement

• 401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).
• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.

Leave

• Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
• 11 paid floating holidays.

Work-Life Balance

• Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).
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