Senior Data Engineer with Security Clearance

Prescient Edge; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Healthcare benefits

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Professional networking opportunities

Job summary

Prescient Edge in Washington, DC seeks a senior technical leader to define and drive the technical vision for integrating multiple applications and data initiatives into a scalable platform. You will serve as the primary technical authority for architectural decisions, integration strategy, and system-level design across frontend, backend, and data science efforts.

The role collaborates with product ownership and engineering teams to set clear boundaries, responsibilities, and contracts between

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience with the last 2 years.
• Experience designing and integrating distributed systems or service-oriented architectures.
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with modern web stacks: React frontend, Python-based APIs, PostgreSQL.
• Experience integrating cloud storage solutions into existing systems.
• Experience in containerized, Kubernetes-based environments.
• Knowledge of NIST STIGs, API design, contracts between microservices, and scalable systems.
• Proven ability to define and own platform-level architecture across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall technical architecture for a platform of services and data products.
• Set architectural guardrails to enable team autonomy.
• Make final decisions on service boundaries, infrastructure, and integration patterns.
• Establish standards, patterns, and guiding principles for consistency.
• Translate products into scalable, secure system designs.
• Produce architectural artifacts and deployment standards.
• Identify risks early and guide teams to pragmatic solutions.
• Lead transition of data science projects to production-ready services.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Service-oriented architectures

Architectural decision making

Communication skills

Frontend (React)

Backend (Python APIs)

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Education

Master's degree in a related field

Security clearance TS/SCI with CI POLY or ability to obtain CI POLY

Tools

React

Python

REST APIs

Docker

Job description

Benefits: At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule. Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.
• Salary range: $160,000 - $180,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills and the abilities of the applicant internal equity, and alignment with market data. Overview: We are seeking a senior technical leader to define and drive the technical vision for integrating multiple independent applications, services, and data initiatives into a cohesive, scalable platform. This role will serve as the primary technical authority responsible for architectural decisions, integration strategy, and system-level design across frontend, backend, and data science efforts. The successful candidate will work closely with product ownership and engineering teams to establish clear boundaries, responsibilities, and contracts between systems while ensuring solutions are practical, scalable, and aligned with long-term organizational goals. Description:
• Define and own the overall technical architecture for a platform composed of multiple services, applications, and data products.
• Support teams without micromanaging, enabling autonomy within clear architectural guardrails.
• Make final technical decisions regarding service boundaries and ownership, shared vs. isolated infrastructure (e.g., databases, storage), integration patterns (APIs, eventing, shared libraries, contracts).
• Establish architectural standards, patterns, and guiding principles to ensure consistency across teams.
• Translate products into scalable, maintainable system designs compatible with the security requirements for the deployment environment.
• Produce architectural artifacts such as high-level system diagrams, interface and microservice contract definitions, integration and deployment standards.
• Identify technical risks and tradeoffs early and guide teams toward pragmatic solutions.
• Guide the transition of data science projects from prototypes to production-ready, scalable services.
• Define integration patterns for: Data access, model outputs and UI consumption of data and analytics Job Requirements Desired experience:
• 12+ years of experience relevant to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Experience designing and integrating distributed systems or service-oriented architectures.
• Strong communication skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with modern web application stacks, including: Web frontends (e.g., React or similar frameworks), backend services (e.g., Python-based APIs) and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
• Experience integrating cloud storage solutions (e.g., object storage) into existing systems.
• Experience working in containerized and Kubernetes-based environments, especially where infrastructure is externally managed.
• Strong understanding of practical implementation of NIST STIGs for software applications (Security Technical Implementation Guides), API design (primarily REST) and contracts between independent microservices, data ownership and integration patterns and system scalability and maintainability.
• Proven ability to define and own platform-level architecture across multiple teams or products.

Desired Education

• Master's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Security Clearance:
• Security clearance required TS/SCI with CI POLY or the ability to obtain CI POLY. Location:
• Washington, D.C. (DIA HQ).