Forward-Deployed Data Engineer for DoD (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; Colorado Springs, Melbourne (CO, FL); Híbrido; USD 123.000 - 167.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Defense Unicorns seeks a forward-deployed FDE Data Engineer to deploy and operate our data stack for DoD space programs. You’ll work closely with mission heroes, engineers, and government stakeholders, delivering production-ready data capabilities in IL4/IL5 environments.

The role emphasizes open-source data tooling, data governance, and end-to-end pipeline implementation, with remote work predominating and occasional on-site work as required.

Formación

• Breadth of data engineering across storage, ingestion, streaming, governance and access.
• Experience with stream processing infra (Kafka, Redpanda, Flink) and bridging data from heterogeneous sources.
• Open-source oriented data infra and governance practices.
• Proficiency in building and operating data pipelines with orchestration tools.

Responsabilidades

• Deploy and configure data capability in mission environment and stand up data store components.
• Integrate data capability with legacy systems and identity providers; ensure data movement.
• Map complex data landscapes and trace data flows across systems.
• Build pipelines through ingestion, transformation, cataloging, and cross-domain transit.
• Operate capacity, performance, backups, observability and incident response.

Conocimientos

Data breadth

Streaming

Data warehousing

Pipelines & orchestration

SQL

Open-source tooling

Herramientas

Kafka

Redpanda

Flink

Airflow

Dagster

Argo Workflows

Iceberg

Postgres

Descripción del empleo

Defense Unicorns seeks a forward-deployed FDE Data Engineer to deploy and operate our data stack for DoD space programs. You’ll work closely with mission heroes, engineers, and government stakeholders, delivering production-ready data capabilities in IL4/IL5 environments.

The role emphasizes open-source data tooling, data governance, and end-to-end pipeline implementation, with remote work predominating and occasional on-site work as required.