Senior Data Engineer - TS Clearance, Cloud Migration

Orchard LLC; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Orchard LLC is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in Huntsville, AL or Quantico, VA to design, develop, and operate scalable data pipelines for petabyte-scale migration and storage in cloud environments.

Role requires active Top Secret clearance and US citizenship. You will lead data migration efforts, ensure data quality, and collaborate with DevSecOps and migration teams on secure, compliant architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required and 8+ years in data engineering, ETL development, or large-scale data operations.
• Hands-on experience building pipelines for structured/unstructured data across enterprise environments.
• Strong proficiency in data modeling, transformation logic, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and loading of large datasets.
• Lead data cleansing, normalization, enrichment, and validation efforts across legacy sources.
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineers, DevSecOps teams, and migration engineers to integrate data flows in AWS-based environments.
• Mentor junior engineers on pipeline operations and data best practices.

Skills

Active TS Clearance

US Citizenship

Cloud experience

ETL/ELT

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Orchard LLC is seeking a Senior Data Engineer in Huntsville, AL or Quantico, VA to design, develop, and operate scalable data pipelines for petabyte-scale migration and storage in cloud environments.

Role requires active Top Secret clearance and US citizenship. You will lead data migration efforts, ensure data quality, and collaborate with DevSecOps and migration teams on secure, compliant architectures.