Senior Data Engineer - Secure Data Ingestion & Integration

Systems Planning and Analysis; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Systems Planning and Analysis seeks a Senior Data Engineer / Integration Specialist to design and optimize secure enterprise data-ingestion, transformation, and integration capabilities for HQ USSTRATCOM at Offutt AFB.

You will lead data engineering, integration, and enterprise-scale solutions across C3 and NC3 modernization initiatives, building real-time and batch pipelines with strong data governance and IL5/IL6 compliance. Expect collaboration with diverse teams and mentoring of engineers.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship with Top Secret clearance and SCI eligibility.
• Onsite full-time work five days a week at Offutt AFB, NE.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 6–10 years in data engineering/integration with 3+ years in DoD/IC missions.
• Proficient in Python/Java and designing ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Experience with Kafka/NiFi/Spark and relational or NoSQL databases.
• Experience delivering RESTful APIs and gRPC in distributed systems.
• Cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) and DevSecOps pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead data engineering, integration, and enterprise-scale data solutions.
• Design secure, scalable data-ingestion, transformation, and pipelines.
• Architect real-time and batch data flows across legacy and cloud systems.
• Ensure data quality, lineage, governance, and IL5/IL6 compliance.
• Develop APIs, messaging middleware, schemas, and interface docs.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with stakeholders to translate needs into architectures.
• Support evaluations, experiments, and capability prototypes for data-centric solutions.
• Produce technical documentation and senior-leader briefings.

Skills

Python

Java

ETL/ELT pipelines

RESTful APIs

gRPC

Apache Kafka

NiFi

Spark

PostgreSQL

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Job description

Systems Planning and Analysis seeks a Senior Data Engineer / Integration Specialist to design and optimize secure enterprise data-ingestion, transformation, and integration capabilities for HQ USSTRATCOM at Offutt AFB.

You will lead data engineering, integration, and enterprise-scale solutions across C3 and NC3 modernization initiatives, building real-time and batch pipelines with strong data governance and IL5/IL6 compliance. Expect collaboration with diverse teams and mentoring of engineers.