Senior Data Engineer — Defense Intelligence & AI Analytics

IBM; Maryland; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting seeks a data engineer with TS/SCI clearance to develop analytic tools and decision support systems for senior DoD leaders. You will work on mission‑critical workflows, employing open‑source scripting and visualization to enable rapid, data‑driven decisions.

The role emphasizes building scalable data pipelines, collaborating with defense intelligence teams, and delivering actionable insights while advancing your expertise in a government context.

Qualifications

• US Citizen with active TS/SCI clearance or eligibility per DISS security database (SCI within last 2 years).
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in STEM fields.
• 7+ years of experience applying data engineer or software development skills to analytic tools and data workflows.
• 5+ years of experience using programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, VBA, R) for data engineering or software development.
• 1+ years of experience leveraging graph databases and platforms for analytics.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior National Security leaders with decision‑worthy data and analysis to improve intelligence systems.
• Build mission‑critical intelligence workflows to produce decision advantage for OUSW(I&S).
• Utilize open‑source scripting and data visualization tools to wrangle, clean, analyze and display data for decision support.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

Data engineering

Software development

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's Degree in STEM

Master's Degree

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

React/Node.js

Job description

IBM Consulting seeks a data engineer with TS/SCI clearance to develop analytic tools and decision support systems for senior DoD leaders. You will work on mission‑critical workflows, employing open‑source scripting and visualization to enable rapid, data‑driven decisions.

The role emphasizes building scalable data pipelines, collaborating with defense intelligence teams, and delivering actionable insights while advancing your expertise in a government context.