Senior Data Engineer, Mission Data Products (Onsite)

LMI; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build authoritative data products supporting Army program operations, owning data pipelines, models, and ontology within Maven or Palantir Foundry. This is a senior IC role for an engineer who can make architectural decisions, build production systems, and raise the team's technical bar.

The role requires onsite support at the customer site in Fort Bragg, NC, and an Active Top Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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, Maven, 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 Top 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 engineering patterns

Data modeling

Ontology

Testing/CI-CD/Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS/Data Science or related field

Tools

Palantir Foundry

Maven

Army Vantage

PySpark

Job description

LMI is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to build authoritative data products supporting Army program operations, owning data pipelines, models, and ontology within Maven or Palantir Foundry. This is a senior IC role for an engineer who can make architectural decisions, build production systems, and raise the team's technical bar.

The role requires onsite support at the customer site in Fort Bragg, NC, and an Active Top Secret clearance.