DoD Forward-Deployed Data Engineer — Remote

Defense Unicorns; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage paid by company

401(k) plan with stock options

Home office budget

Paid time off & holidays

Training and conferences

Job summary

Defense Unicorns is seeking a forward-deployed data engineer to deploy, integrate, and operate the UDS data capability in DoD environments. You will work closely with mission heroes, operators, and program engineers to run workloads in mission-critical settings and translate learnings back into product improvements.

You will frequently collaborate with government stakeholders, maintain data provenance and governance, and handle streaming, ingestion, and cross-domain data flows.

Qualifications

• Experience storing and querying large unstructured datasets in data lake architectures.
• Experience with stream processing and bridging data from heterogeneous sources.
• Open-source data warehousing experience and working without proprietary platforms.
• Experience building and operating data pipelines with orchestration tools.
• Deep SQL skills and ability to design analytical and operational schemas.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure UDS Data Capability in the mission hero's environment.
• Build and support integrations with mission systems and legacy databases.
• Map complex data landscapes and trace data flows with stakeholders.
• Create pipelines across ingestion, transformation, and governance stages.
• Implement provenance, lineage, and governance practices.
• Operate deployments including observability and incident response.

Skills

Data breadth

Unstructured data at scale

Streaming & integration

Data warehousing

Pipelines & orchestration

Data modeling & SQL

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Airflow

Dagster

Argo Workflows

Iceberg/Delta

Job description

Defense Unicorns is seeking a forward-deployed data engineer to deploy, integrate, and operate the UDS data capability in DoD environments. You will work closely with mission heroes, operators, and program engineers to run workloads in mission-critical settings and translate learnings back into product improvements.

You will frequently collaborate with government stakeholders, maintain data provenance and governance, and handle streaming, ingestion, and cross-domain data flows.