Senior Data Engineer - Elasticsearch & Graph Pipelines

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

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.