Principal Data Engineer — Secure Pipelines & 10% Travel

Northrop Grumman; Roy (UT); On-site; USD 98,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Corp. seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and publishing across enterprise systems. You will collaborate with platform engineers, domain teams, and stakeholders to translate requirements into robust reusable components.

Required hands-on experience with modern data platforms, strong software engineering skills, and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with fewer years.
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and publishing.
• Strong software engineering skills including version control, code reviews, testing, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and publishing.
• Collaborate with platform engineers, domain teams, and stakeholders to translate requirements into reusable components.
• Ensure observability with logging, metrics, and error handling in data pipelines.
• Contribute to data quality and governance practices across pipelines.

Skills

Data pipelines

Version control

Cross-functional collaboration

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree or PhD in STEM

Tools

Apache Spark/Delta Lake

Databricks

Snowflake

Apache Airflow

Job description

Northrop Grumman Corp. seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and publishing across enterprise systems. You will collaborate with platform engineers, domain teams, and stakeholders to translate requirements into robust reusable components.

Required hands-on experience with modern data platforms, strong software engineering skills, and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government secret clearance.