Senior Data Engineer (TS/SCI) - Graph & Elasticsearch

Sunayu; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

Dental and Vision

401k with match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Sunayu, LLC seeks a mission-driven Senior Data Engineer to join our high-impact team supporting the NDOC DOMEX Technology Platform. You will design scalable data pipelines and modern data stores (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and graph DBs) to enable advanced analytics for OSINT and DoW/IC workloads.

Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and government stakeholders in a hybrid by-location model, mentor teammates, drive architecture decisions, and ensure secure, resilient services in a

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain polygraph.
• Experience with large-scale data platforms and OSINT/IC domains.
• Strong design of scalable data pipelines and data stores.
• Proficiency in Python or Java for data engineering tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable data management solutions for analytics and AI/ML workloads.
• Build Elasticsearch indices and graph data stores for hierarchical data.
• Create scalable ingestion pipelines and data schemas for performance and storage efficiency.
• Collaborate with infra and platform teams to deploy services in Kubernetes and cloud environments.
• Partner with data scientists to ingest, curate, and securely manage datasets.

Skills

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch architecture,

Graph databases

Data modeling

ETL/ELT pipelines

Kubernetes deployment

Distributed storage

Python or Java

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Data Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure-as-Code

Job description

Sunayu, LLC seeks a mission-driven Senior Data Engineer to join our high-impact team supporting the NDOC DOMEX Technology Platform. You will design scalable data pipelines and modern data stores (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and graph DBs) to enable advanced analytics for OSINT and DoW/IC workloads.

Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and government stakeholders in a hybrid by-location model, mentor teammates, drive architecture decisions, and ensure secure, resilient services in a