Senior Data Engineer – Cloud Pipelines for NGA Mission

The Bison Group LLC; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

Accrued PTO including vacation, sick,&

Job summary

The Bison Group LLC seeks a Senior Data Engineer to support a National Security mission for the NGA, onsite in Springfield, VA. You will guide technical decisions and strengthen cloud-based data platforms through scalable pipelines, integrations, and production operations.

Responsibilities include building scalable data pipelines, API connectors, and data processing architectures. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality and secure data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; 5+ years of experience with a bachelor’s, or 3+ years with a related master’s.
• Experience designing, writing, reviewing, and supporting production code in Python, Scala, Java or comparable languages.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, and operation of scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
• Design and oversee API connectors and integrations to ingest data securely from internal platforms and external services.
• Define engineering approaches for data processing, storage, and database performance to meet scale, reliability, and latency requirements.
• Establish and improve data quality, validation, monitoring, and governance across production data products.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and guide technical solutions.
• Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex data integration, pipeline, and production incidents.
• Coordinate with security/compliance teams to implement protections and controls.
• Maintain architecture and operational documentation; mentor engineers through design reviews.
• Contribute to Agile planning and manage technical dependencies.
• Evaluate platform/tools options and recommend improvements.

Skills

Python

Scala

Java

Git

CI/CD practices

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

Data quality

APIs

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Master's degree in related field (advantage)

Tools

CI/CD tooling

API integrations

ETL tooling

Cloud platforms

Job description

The Bison Group LLC seeks a Senior Data Engineer to support a National Security mission for the NGA, onsite in Springfield, VA. You will guide technical decisions and strengthen cloud-based data platforms through scalable pipelines, integrations, and production operations.

Responsibilities include building scalable data pipelines, API connectors, and data processing architectures. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality and secure data