Data Pipeline Engineer - Java/Spring, Secret Clearance

Bow Wave LLC; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bow Wave LLC is seeking a Software Engineer to support the Department of Homeland Security with building and maintaining data processing pipelines and ingestion workflows using Java, Spring Boot, XML/XSLT.

You will design and implement data ingestion, integrate with APIs and databases (SQL/NoSQL), and help deploy in on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments while maintaining federal standards and security requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 3+ years of professional Java development experience, with a focus on data processing or integration.
• Strong understanding of data formats (JSON, CSV, XML) and transformation techniques.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Security clearance level: Secret; US citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Java and Spring Boot in a distributed computing environment.
• Develop and optimize XML/XSLT-based data processing logic for structured and semi-structured data.
• Integrate with APIs, web services, and SQL and NoSQL databases to facilitate data exchange and validation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve data processing issues, ensuring accuracy, performance, and compliance with federal standards.
• Contribute to system documentation, testing, and continuous process improvement efforts.
• Support deployment and maintenance of data pipeline components in on premise and in hybrid and cloud environments.

Skills

Data processing

Data integration

Distributed computing

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems

Tools

Java

Spring

XML

XSLT

SQL

NoSQL

AWS

Docker

Jenkins

Maven

RHEL / Linux

Shell scripting

Job description

Bow Wave LLC is seeking a Software Engineer to support the Department of Homeland Security with building and maintaining data processing pipelines and ingestion workflows using Java, Spring Boot, XML/XSLT.

You will design and implement data ingestion, integrate with APIs and databases (SQL/NoSQL), and help deploy in on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments while maintaining federal standards and security requirements.