Senior Data Engineer

General Dynamics Information Technology; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to advance the CMM program in support of AO’s data and analytics objectives across 204+ federal courts.

The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable data pipelines and platforms, aligning with federal standards and CI/CD practices, and partnering with Data Architecture, Governance, and Migration teams to ensure auditable, high-quality data solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or related field.
• Experience with data governance, security, and cloud platforms.
• Strong SQL, Python, and data transformation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
• Develop and maintain data platforms (data lake, lakehouse, or data warehouse) and data products.
• Collaborate with architects, DBAs, and analysts to deliver secure, auditable solutions.

Skills

Data Analysis

Data Analytics

Data Lake

Data Warehousing

ETL Design

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

AWS Redshift

Job description

Req ID: RQ226019

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Public Trust/Other Required: None

Job Family: Data Science and Data Engineering

Skills

Data Analysis,Data Analytics,Data Lake,Data Warehousing (DW),ETL Design

Experience

7 + years of related experience

Job Description

Senior Data Engineer

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact supporting the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program. The CMM program is an initiative to support the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AO) in developing a modern cloud-based solution to support all 204+ federal courts across the United States.

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. The Senior Data Engineer will work as part of the CMM Data Modernization and Governance team responsible for delivering an integrated data governance, engineering, data platform, reporting, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) capabilities that support operational decision-making and fulfill AO’s data and analytics objectives in support of the CMM program.

The successful candidate is responsible for designing, building, testing, and maintaining scalable data engineering components and platform services that power the CMM Program. This role delivers high-quality, secure, and performant data pipelines, transformations, ETL/ELT delivery, data management solutions, and system integrations aligned with federal standards and CMM objectives for modernization, analytics, and operational excellence. The Senior Data Engineer partners closely with the Data Architecture, Data Governance, and Migration teams to ensure engineering work is consistent, auditable, and aligned with CMM’s cloud-based CI/CD standards.

The Senior Data Engineer will execute the following responsibilities:

Data Platform & Architecture

• Develop and implement a scalable, secure, cloud-based data platform supporting operational data, reporting, and analytics delivering cloud-based architecture (data lake, lakehouse, or data warehouse).

• Ensure alignment with federal security requirements, judiciary architecture standards, data governance policies, and application modernization initiatives

• Engineer multi-tenant, cloud-based environments supporting hybrid/on‑premises systems, enabling SQL, NoSQL, IaaS, PaaS, distributed SQL, multi-modal, and event-driven/streaming databases.

• Produce and maintain dimensional data models that form the basis for the data marts to satisfy the requirements of the data products

• Develop and maintain downstream data marts and / or consumable data and their corresponding ETL/ELT processes (on a near real-time basis or overnight batch depending on the individual use case requirements) and their associated reports and dashboards

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation including the STTMs, data models (logical and physical), design documents, testing documents and other related documents

• Develop, deploy and maintain the data presentation and data reports for each of the data products using visualization or presentation tool(s) selected by the customer

• Support development of the Data and Technology Enabler Roadmap across data engineering, reporting/analytics, and AI/ML use cases

Data Engineering & Integration

• Design and develop data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines for integrating data from multiple enterprise sources, and transformation logic for near-real-time and batch workloads

• Implement robust, reusable data services supporting analytics, reporting, and downstream data marts and / or gold layers

• Collaborate with architects to implement logical and physical data models in cloud-based platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, or AWS Redshift)

• Develop and maintain high-quality, testable code using secure coding standards and best practices

• Support the operationalization CMM Data Classification Standards, including workshops, security controls, metadata requirements, and integration into system design, procurement, and training

• Configure metadata structures, workflows, automation, and security settings; develop ingestion processes and attribute definitions for catalog entries

• Create training, job aids, and communications to support user adoption

• Integrate data pipelines with cloud services, messaging, and storage components

• Implement data quality checks, validations, and error-handling mechanisms

• Optimize pipeline performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

• Support CI/CD-enabled deployments, including automated testing and promotion across environments

• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and sprint ceremonies.

• Support incident resolution and root cause analysis for data pipeline failures

• Produce and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and workflows

• Ensure deliverables meet federal security, governance, and audit requirements

• Operates within an Agile federal delivery environment across multiple scrum teams

• Collaborates closely with architects, DBAs, business analysts, and QA personnel

• Accountable for code quality, performance, and delivery timelines.

• Expected to maintain audit-ready documentation and technical artifacts

Data Migration & Archiving

• Partners closely with the Data Architecture, Data Governance, and Migration teams to execute the data migration, archival, and disaster recovery (DR) strategy

• Deliver migration documentation for scripts, transformations, and validation results

• Support the Failover Testing and DR drills engineering activities

• Implement operational databases supporting data migration, archival, DR, document storage, indexing services, schemas, and secure data APIs using IaC for provisioning and configuration

This role will require you to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and will require you to provide onsite fingerprinting at a designated facility. This investigation may review personal and criminal behavior, financial conduct, foreign influence, as well as other adjudications.

QUALIFICATIONS

• MA/MS degree with 5+ years or BS/BA degree with 7+ years of general experience in information systems and 5+ years of specialized experience

• Experience in data engineering and design data architecture

• Experience and understanding of best practices regarding system security measures

• Experience with building and migration software and IT services to align to strategic business needs and goals

• Experience in conducting research for advanced technologies to determine how IT can support business needs by leveraging software, hardware, or infrastructure

• Experience with AWS data and compute services

• Experience with data orchestration tools

• Knowledge of cloud messaging and storage services

• Proven track record in software and data engineering roles

• Hands‑on experience building enterprise‑scale data pipelines

• Strong proficiency with SQL, Python and data transformation techniques

• Experience developing in cloud‑based data platforms

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery environments

• Experience working in regulated or compliance‑driven environments

• Experience supporting data platforms or analytics programs

• Hands‑on experience with Data Platforms

• Proficiency with ETL/ELT frameworks

• Experience with streaming or near–real‑time data ingestion

• Familiarity with data governance, metadata, and classification standards

• Experience mentoring junior data engineers

• US Citizen or US Person (Lawful resident, refugee, or asylee) required for this role per contract

COMMUNICATION & ORGANIZATIONAL

• Excellent presentation and communication (oral and written) skills

• Consultant mindset with the ability to work with high level customer stakeholders and build excellent customer relationships

• Experience identifying and applying industry tools, solutions, methods best practices, and emerging technologies

• Strong analytical skills and problem‑solving skills with the ability to formulate and communicate recommendations for improvement

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively, independently, and as part of a team

CERTIFICATIONS (Preferred)

• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

• Snowflake SnowPro Core

• Databricks Certified Data Professional

• AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

• AWS Certified Data Engineer

• Associate or Professional level certifications in one or more cloud platforms

The likely salary range for this position is $140,821 - $190,523. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post‑tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long‑term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees are told they value most.

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