Senior Data Architect & AI Platform Lead (TS/SCI)

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Koniag Professional Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a Principal Data Engineer with TS/SCI eligibility to support DoW data ecosystems in Washington, DC. You will lead AI-enabled data architectures, scalable pipelines, and governance across classified and unclassified environments.

The role requires hands-on data engineering, enterprise architecture, and strong collaboration with government stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions and modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related technical discipline.
• 10-15+ years of progressively responsible technical experience delivering enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Senior/principal/lead data engineer with architecture experience.
• Expert-level proficiency with Python and SQL.
• Experience with modern data engineering tech such as Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Airflow.
• Cloud-based data solutions in AWS, Azure, or similar.
• Knowledge of data lake, lakehouse, warehouse, data mesh/fabric.
• Experience building production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines with many data sources.
• Experience with APIs, microservices, CI/CD, DevSecOps.
• Data architectures for AI/ML workloads.
• Ability to work with complex DoW mission requirements and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior AI2 technical authority for enterprise data engineering and AI-enabled infrastructure.
• Design scalable data architectures across classified and unclassified environments.
• Architect and develop resilient pipelines, data products, APIs, streaming solutions, and automated workflows.
• Support machine learning, generative AI, analytics, and decision-support applications.
• Design for cloud, hybrid-cloud, and government-hosted environments with cybersecurity and data governance in mind.
• Lead integration of diverse government and contractor data sources.
• Develop data models, metadata, lineage, and data governance.
• Optimize large-scale data platforms for performance, cost, and reliability.
• Collaborate with data scientists, AI/ML engineers, and security teams to operationalize prototypes.
• Provide architectural direction, reviews, and technology selection.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and modernization opportunities (data fabrics, lakehouse, vector databases, etc.).
• Diagnose complex data availability, latency, and security issues.
• Develop roadmaps and communicate risks to leadership.
• Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices.
• Support government acquisition and decision-making as required.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL/ELT

Data architecture

Cloud platforms

AI/ML workloads

APIs

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Kubernetes

Job description

Koniag Professional Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a Principal Data Engineer with TS/SCI eligibility to support DoW data ecosystems in Washington, DC. You will lead AI-enabled data architectures, scalable pipelines, and governance across classified and unclassified environments.

The role requires hands-on data engineering, enterprise architecture, and strong collaboration with government stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions and modernization initiatives.