Remote Data Cloud Engineer — DoD-Grade Data Pipelines & Analytics

Zachary Piper Solutions

Fort Meade (MD)

Remote

USD 125,000 - 140,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Data Cloud Engineer to support a long-term federal modernization program focused on enterprise cloud data solutions within secure DoD environments. This fully remote role is based out of Fort Meade, VA and requires an active Secret security clearance.

The Data Cloud Engineer will modernize the program’s data infrastructure for secure analytics and operational decision-making across the DoD.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience designing and operating scalable, production-grade data pipelines.
Hands-on PySpark development with high-performance coding for ETL pipelines.
Advanced experience with Spark SQL, Python, and SQL for large-scale transformations.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines with PySpark.
Build scalable data pipelines using Azure Synapse, Databricks, and AWS Glue.
Develop ingestion frameworks for structured and unstructured data including REST APIs.
Implement full and incremental data loads, including CDC and late-arriving data.
Design and maintain cloud data lakes, warehouses, and analytics-ready datasets.
Implement data quality, schema validation, and lineage controls.
Monitor pipelines for performance, latency, and reliability; troubleshoot issues.
Support CI/CD, automated deployments, and environment promotions.
Collaborate with cybersecurity and DevOps to meet RMF, STIG, FedRAMP, DoD security requirements.