Senior Data Engineer - Remote Gov Cloud & Data Fabric

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

Job summary

Synectics for Management Decisions Inc. in the Washington DC metro area seeks a Sr. Data Engineer to establish enterprise data pipelines and high-availability structures for a government agency. This is a remote position with periodic onsite reporting and requires the contract to be awarded.

You will design, build, and optimize secure ETL/ELT pipelines, migrate legacy systems to cloud-native lakehouse repositories, and enable discovery across multiple networks to support AI-driven insights.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience with Spark, Kafka and cloud data services.
• Active IAM Level II/III certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize secure ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Enable unified discovery across 11 operational networks.
• Migrate legacy systems to cloud-native lakehouse architectures.

Skills

Apache Spark

Kafka

AWS Glue

Azure Data Factory

Cloud-native infrastructure automation

IAM Certification

Tools

AWS GovCloud

Azure Government

Job description

Synectics for Management Decisions Inc. in the Washington DC metro area seeks a Sr. Data Engineer to establish enterprise data pipelines and high-availability structures for a government agency. This is a remote position with periodic onsite reporting and requires the contract to be awarded.

You will design, build, and optimize secure ETL/ELT pipelines, migrate legacy systems to cloud-native lakehouse repositories, and enable discovery across multiple networks to support AI-driven insights.