Senior Data Engineer - Remote Gov Cloud & AI Pipelines

Synectics for Management Decisions Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Synectics for Management Decisions Inc in the Washington DC metro area is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to design and operate large-scale enterprise data platforms for a government client.

The role is remote, with periodic onsite reporting as required, and is contingent on contract award. You will build secure ETL pipelines, cloud-native lakehouse strategies, and support AI-ready data flows in AWS GovCloud and Azure Government, requiring 7+ years in data engineering and federal environment

Qualifications

• 7+ years of data engineering experience using Spark, Kafka, AWS Glue, or Azure Data Factory.
• Experience with cloud-native automation in federal government environments.
• Active IAM Level II or III security certifications preferred (e.g., Security+ CE, CISSP).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize secure ETL/ELT pipelines for maritime operational data.
• Implement enterprise data fabric architectures enabling unified discovery across networks.
• Transition legacy systems to cloud-native lakehouse repositories for AI ingestion.

Skills

Apache Spark

Kafka

AWS Glue

Azure Data Factory

Tools

Spark & Streaming

Job description

Synectics for Management Decisions Inc in the Washington DC metro area is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to design and operate large-scale enterprise data platforms for a government client.

The role is remote, with periodic onsite reporting as required, and is contingent on contract award. You will build secure ETL pipelines, cloud-native lakehouse strategies, and support AI-ready data flows in AWS GovCloud and Azure Government, requiring 7+ years in data engineering and federal environment