Senior Data Engineer - Mission-Critical Data Pipelines (Hybrid)

Amentum; Springfield (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

PTO & holidays

401(k) matching

Education reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Tax-saving options

Disability and life insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the design, development, and operation of scalable data pipelines supporting analytics, mission operations, and secure data exchanges. You will coordinate with cross‑functional teams, guide technical solutions, and mentor engineers in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities include building robust ETL/ELT architectures, ensuring data quality, and driving agile delivery.

Qualifications

• Design, write, review, and support production code in Python/Scala/Java, with Git, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Strong experience with ETL/ELT architecture, data modeling, data quality, and secure API integrations.
• Ability to own complex data engineering work end-to-end from requirements to production.
• Experience delivering scalable production data pipelines across structured and unstructured data.
• Experience designing API connectors and ingestion patterns for enterprise apps and external services.
• Excellent written and verbal communication to explain tradeoffs.
• Experience collaborating with analytics, data science, product, security, and mission teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, development, and operation of scalable data pipelines for analytics and mission operations.
• Design and oversee API connectors that securely ingest data from internal platforms and external services.
• Set data processing, storage, and DB performance approaches to meet scale and latency needs.
• Establish and improve data quality, validation, monitoring, and governance across production data products.
• Partner with mission stakeholders, analysts, architects, and product teams to define requirements and guide technical solutions.
• Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex data integration and production performance incidents.
• Coordinate with security and compliance teams to build protections into data systems.
• Maintain architecture and operational documentation and mentor engineers through design discussions and code reviews.
• Contribute to Agile planning and delivery, helping the team break down work and manage dependencies.
• Evaluate platform and tooling choices, explain tradeoffs, and recommend improvements to data architecture.

Skills

Python/Scala/Java

ETL/ELT architecture

Data modeling

Data quality & governance

API integrations

Production data pipelines

Data security practices

Mentoring engineers

Agile collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or related field + 5-8 years of relevant experience

Master's degree related + at least 3 years of relevant experience

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Amentum is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the design, development, and operation of scalable data pipelines supporting analytics, mission operations, and secure data exchanges. You will coordinate with cross‑functional teams, guide technical solutions, and mentor engineers in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities include building robust ETL/ELT architectures, ensuring data quality, and driving agile delivery.