Mission-Driven Senior Data Engineer with Secret Clearance

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan options

Dental plan

Vision plan

401(k) with company match

Flexible work weeks

Paid time off

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Data Engineer Sr Principal to turn data into measurable outcomes for mission-critical challenges. You will own data infrastructure, optimize pipelines, and collaborate with AI/ML teams to enable scalable, secure data solutions in controlled environments.

The ideal candidate has strong SQL, Python, PostgreSQL expertise, and experience with vector databases, containerization, and data governance in government settings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years in data engineering, database development, or data integration.
• Strong Python for data processing and automation.
• Advanced SQL, database schema design, and performance tuning.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar enterprise relational databases.
• ETL/ELT design and implementation experience.
• Experience with REST APIs and data formats (JSON).
• Linux administration and deployment automation.
• Familiarity with data modeling and data governance concepts.
• Git, testing, and modern software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data infrastructure for AI-driven applications.
• Manage PostgreSQL databases and vector search components (pgvector).
• Build and optimize data ingestion pipelines for diverse data.
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to support retrieval-augmented generation workflows.
• Migrate databases/services into Podman containers and ensure reliability.

Skills

Python

SQL

PostgreSQL

ETL/ELT

Data pipelines

REST APIs

Linux

Data modeling

Git

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

pgvector

Docling

Tesseract

Podman

Linux

Splunk

Job description

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. seeks a Data Engineer Sr Principal to turn data into measurable outcomes for mission-critical challenges. You will own data infrastructure, optimize pipelines, and collaborate with AI/ML teams to enable scalable, secure data solutions in controlled environments.

The ideal candidate has strong SQL, Python, PostgreSQL expertise, and experience with vector databases, containerization, and data governance in government settings.