Senior Data Engineer, Mission Data Products (Top Secret)

LMI Consulting, LLC; Fort Bragg (NC); On-site; 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 at Fort Bragg. You will own data pipelines, data models, and ontology within Maven or Palantir Foundry, and drive architecture decisions for production systems.

This senior IC role requires hands-on delivery, collaboration with customers and engineers, and adherence to security and DoD requirements. Onsite presence at Fort Bragg is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/engineering/IS/data science.
• 8+ years of experience building production data systems.
• Strong Python and SQL proficiency; modern data-engineering patterns.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry, Maven, Army Vantage or similar platforms.
• Experience with data modeling, ontology, data quality, and lineage.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals: testing, source control, CI/CD, monitoring.
• Experience supporting a DoD customer.
• Active Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and implementation of scalable data pipelines and data products.
• Integrate and transform data from Army and enterprise sources.
• Develop data models and ontology for 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

CI/CD

Data modeling

Ontology

Data quality

Data lineage

Testing

Source control

Monitoring

DoD experience

Security clearance

Education

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

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 at Fort Bragg. You will own data pipelines, data models, and ontology within Maven or Palantir Foundry, and drive architecture decisions for production systems.

This senior IC role requires hands-on delivery, collaboration with customers and engineers, and adherence to security and DoD requirements. Onsite presence at Fort Bragg is required.