Senior Data Engineer, Mission Data Products

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

Job summary

LMI Consulting, LLC seeks a Staff Data Engineer to build authoritative data products and lead data pipelines for Army acquisition and program operations. This senior individual-contributor role focuses on architecture decisions, production systems, and elevating the team's technical standards.

The candidate will own data pipelines, models, and ontology within Army Vantage or Palantir Foundry, and collaborate with engineers, designers, and stakeholders to ensure quality, security, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Information Systems/Data Science or equivalent.
• Eight or more years of experience building production data systems.
• Strong proficiency with Python, SQL, and modern data-engineering patterns.
• Experience designing data pipelines and products on Palantir Foundry, Army Vantage, or a comparable enterprise data platform.
• Experience with data modeling, ontology, data quality, and lineage.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals, including testing, source control, CI/CD, and monitoring.
• Experience supporting a Department of Defense 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 that support 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 technical designs, mentor engineers, and resolve complex data challenges.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Ontology

Testing

CI/CD

Source control

Monitoring

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Information Systems/Data Science

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Army Vantage

PySpark

CI/CD tooling

Job description

LMI Consulting, LLC seeks a Staff Data Engineer to build authoritative data products and lead data pipelines for Army acquisition and program operations. This senior individual-contributor role focuses on architecture decisions, production systems, and elevating the team's technical standards.

The candidate will own data pipelines, models, and ontology within Army Vantage or Palantir Foundry, and collaborate with engineers, designers, and stakeholders to ensure quality, security, and