Senior Data Engineer: Army Data Pipelines & Foundry

LMI; Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build authoritative data products supporting Army acquisition and program operations. This senior individual-contributor role will own data pipelines, models, and ontology within Army Vantage or Palantir Foundry.

You will make architectural decisions, build production systems, and raise technical standards. This role requires leading-edge data engineering expertise, U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years building production data systems.
• Strong Python and SQL; modern data-engineering patterns.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry, Army Vantage, or comparable platform.
• Experience with data modeling, ontology, quality, and lineage.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals: testing, source control, CI/CD, monitoring.
• Experience supporting a DoD customer.
• Active Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and implementation of scalable data pipelines and data products.
• Integrate and transform data from multiple Army and enterprise sources.
• Develop data models and ontology supporting applications, reporting, and analysis.
• Design for data quality, lineage, security, observability, and long-term maintainability.
• Establish engineering standards for testing, source control, deployment, and operations.
• Partner with software engineers, product designers, and customer stakeholders.
• Review designs, mentor engineers, and resolve complex data challenges.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Ontology

Palantir Foundry

Army Vantage

CI/CD

Testing

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, or related field

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Army Vantage

Job description

LMI is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build authoritative data products supporting Army acquisition and program operations. This senior individual-contributor role will own data pipelines, models, and ontology within Army Vantage or Palantir Foundry.

You will make architectural decisions, build production systems, and raise technical standards. This role requires leading-edge data engineering expertise, U.S.