Senior Data Engineer

Absolute Business Solutions Corp; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 153,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Health and Wellness allowance

Education and training funds

Volunteer time off

Charitable match

Referral program

Living Our Values awards

Job summary

Absolute Business Solutions Corp (ABSC) is actively seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our high-impact team at the Bethesda, MD client location. You will design and optimize data pipelines, build scalable Elasticsearch and graph data platforms, and partner with data scientists to enable advanced analytics across the intelligence and defense domains.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance and willingness to obtain a CI polygraph.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field with 12–15 years of experience or Master’s with 10–13 years of experience.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain a Polygraph.
• Deep experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch architecture, index design, mappings, analyzers, and query optimization.
• Experience with graph databases such as JanusGraph, Neo4j, TigerGraph, Amazon Neptune, or Memgraph.
• Strong data modeling skills for hierarchical and highly connected datasets.
• Kubernetes deployment and operations for stateful data services.
• Distributed storage systems and high-volume data ingestion.
• Python or Java for data engineering and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable data management solutions for analytics and AI/ML workloads.
• Build and maintain Elasticsearch indices and a graph data store for large hierarchical structures.
• Develop scalable ingestion pipelines and data schemas for fast querying and storage efficiency.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to deploy Elasticsearch and graph services in Kubernetes.
• Ingest, curate, manage, and secure datasets across the data lifecycle with data scientists.
• Create automated data loading, transformation, validation, and QA pipelines.
• Improve availability and performance of graph/search infrastructure under heavy workloads.
• Work with software engineers to integrate services into microservices-based apps.
• Participate in SAFe Agile activities and drive engineering best practices.
• Engage cross-functionally to identify high-value integrations and system design inputs.

Skills

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Graph databases

Data modeling

Kubernetes

Distributed storage

Python/Java

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

JanusGraph

Neo4j

TigerGraph

Amazon Neptune

Memgraph

Kubernetes

Job description

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Absolute Business Solutions Corp (ABSC) is not just another tech company. We’re a community of innovators, engineers, analysts and business professionals working together with our customers to tackle the most complex challenges. For more than 20 years we’ve supported critical Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), Federal Civilian missions and global, multi-national corporations. We specialize in supporting our clients in the Intelligence, Technology, Defense, AI/ML, and Data Science fields. As we continue to grow at a rapid pace, we need some amazing new professionals to join our team.

ABSC is seeking a mission-driven Senior Data Engineer to join our high-impact team supporting the National Digital Exploitation and Open Source Center (NDOC) DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). In this role, you will help improve data intelligence pipelines serving both Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) operations and document media exploitation for the Department of War (DoW) and the broader Intelligence Community (IC). You’ll play a critical role in developing a future state AI-managed DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) and DIA-NDOC’s mission.

While the work is primarily conducted on-site at our client location in Bethesda, MD, we offer a flexible schedule and, occasionally, some tasks may be performed remotely. Percentage of remote work will vary based on client requirements/deliverables.

Security clearance required for this role: An Active TS/SCI with ability/willingness to obtain a CI polygraph is required.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design, develop, and optimize scalable data management solutions supporting advanced analytics and AI/ML workloads. Working closely with data scientists, software engineers, and infrastructure teams, you will build and maintain Elasticsearch and graph-based data platforms that enable efficient storage, discovery, and analysis of complex hierarchical data.Ability to become a POSTMAN power user to support the discovery of critical intelligence insights.

• Design and optimize Elasticsearch indices to efficiently manage large-scale hierarchical classification structures, ensuring high-performance search, aggregation, and update operations.
• Design, implement, and maintain a graph data store supporting hierarchical graph structures optimized for large, dense batch updates and high-throughput analytics.
• Develop scalable ingestion pipelines that support scalable graph analytics.
• Design data schemas, indexing strategies, and partitioning approaches to maximize query performance, scalability, and storage efficiency.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform engineering teams to deploy, operate, and optimize Elasticsearch and graph database services in a Kubernetes environment using cloud-native technologies.
• Partner with Data Scientists and AI/ML engineers to ingest, curate, manage, analyze, and securely expunge datasets throughout the data lifecycle.
• Develop automated data loading, transformation, validation, and quality assurance pipelines supporting production analytics workflows.
• Optimize graph and search infrastructure for high availability, resilience, and performance under large-scale analytical workloads.
• Collaborate with software engineers and system architects to integrate graph and search services into microservice-based applications.
• Participate in SAFe Agile development activities, including sprint planning, design reviews, architecture discussions, and technical demonstrations.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and professional development within the team.
• Ensure sound engineering practices, compliance with policies, and delivery of high-quality software.
• Coordinate with test teams to develop and monitor automated system integration tests.
• Engage with cross-functional teams to identify and develop high-value integrations with other systems/applications.
• Provide specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of COTS/GOTS in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you need (required):

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field and 12–15 years of relevant experience, or Master’s with 10–13 years of experience.
• Must possess an Active Top Secret/SCI clearance and ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph.
• Elasticsearch/OpenSearch architecture, index design, mappings, analyzers, and query optimization.
• Graph databases such as JanusGraph, Neo4j, TigerGraph, Amazon Neptune, or Memgraph.
• Data modeling for hierarchical and highly connected datasets.
• Kubernetes deployment and operations for stateful data services.
• Distributed storage systems and high-volume data ingestion.
• Python or Java for data engineering and automation.

Desired Skills

You will wow us even more if you have some of these:

• Experience supporting AI/ML and data science workflows. Apache Kafka or similar streaming technologies.
• Experience with Linux, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Graph analytics frameworks and algorithms, including graph traversal, centrality, community detection, similarity analysis, and link prediction.
• Experience with Keycloak, and security best practices (authN/Z, secrets management).
• Experience building and maintaining microservices in Kubernetes.
• Familiar with infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi).

Salary is commensurate with education and years’ experience. Salary range for this requisition is: $125k-$255k annual.

Who we are:

ABSC is a technology and services company that combines the agility of a small business with proven processes refined over more than two decades in business. We specialize in supporting public sector clients in the Intelligence, Defense, Health, and Safety areas. Our team stands ready to deliver the next generation of programs, personnel, and solutions to help advance our federal government customers’ driving innovation, agility, and security across all mission areas.

Some of our benefits include:

• Retirement Planning – 401k Fully Vested with Match
• Annual Health and Wellness Allowance – buy an Apple Watch, a treadmill, or hit the gym on us
• Career Development – Annual Funds to spend on Education and Training
• Volunteer Time Off – Annually, all employees can spend 8 hours directly supporting a charity of choice
• Charitable Match – ABSC matches an employee’s donation to a qualifying charity
• Referral Program – We pay for internal and external referrals!
• LOV Awards – Earn bonus awards throughout the year from our Living Our Values awards program

*ABSC is a proud V3, Virginia Values Vets, member which recognizes our commitment to hiring Veterans. If you are a veteran, please be sure to include that in your application.*

Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.