Senior Data Engineer — TS/SCI Clearance

NS2 Mission; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

NS2 Mission seeks a Senior/Expert Data Engineer to lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable ETL pipelines and cloud-based data platforms in Chantilly, VA. You will collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, and mission stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions supporting critical objectives.

The role emphasizes ownership of complex data challenges, performance enhancements, and modernization of data capabilities within an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical field.
• 8–12 years in data or software engineering with senior/expert responsibilities.
• Experience across the ETL lifecycle: design, develop, optimize data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and maintenance of scalable ETL pipelines.
• Develop Python-based data processing applications for production use.
• Engineer data ingestion, transformation, and integration across platforms.
• Improve pipeline architecture, performance, quality, and reliability.
• Design cloud-based data solutions in AWS (EC2, Lambda, EKS, S3).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet mission requirements.
• Identify root causes and implement long-term stability improvements.
• Drive modernization and automation of data workflows.
• Support testing, deployment, and sustainment of the data platform.
• Establish data engineering best practices for code quality and performance.
• Produce technical docs on system design and data workflows.

Skills

ETL lifecycle experience

Python production-grade

Data modeling

Agile collaboration

Independent problem solving

Data pipeline optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/DE/SE/IS or equivalent

Tools

Apache Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

NS2 Mission seeks a Senior/Expert Data Engineer to lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable ETL pipelines and cloud-based data platforms in Chantilly, VA. You will collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, and mission stakeholders to deliver production-ready solutions supporting critical objectives.

The role emphasizes ownership of complex data challenges, performance enhancements, and modernization of data capabilities within an Agile environment.