Senior Data Platform Engineer (TS/SCI) | Airflow & Spark

Shield Consulting Solutions, Inc.; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days PTO and 11 paid holidays

100% employer-paid healthcare for you

8% 401(k) employer match

Job summary

Shield Consulting Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer with an active TS/SCI w/Polygraph clearance to design and maintain data workflows using Apache Airflow, Python, and Spark.

The role focuses on secure, scalable, and observable pipelines with collaboration across data engineering and platform teams. The position offers 16 hours of telework per week and is a full-time role based in Maryland, requiring 5 years of software engineering experience and a technical degree.

Qualifications

• 5 years of software engineering experience required.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, or 2 additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Active TS/SCI w/Polygraph clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain data workflows and automation pipelines using Apache Airflow.
• Build reliable, scalable, and observable workflow orchestration solutions for data engineering, analytics and operations.
• Collaborate with data engineers, platform teams, and stakeholders to ensure workflows are secure and production-ready.

Skills

5 years software engineer experience

Active TS/SCI w/Polygraph

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Linux CLI

Bash scripting

Python

Java

Apache Airflow

Apache Spark

Docker/Podman/containerd

Git

Job description

Shield Consulting Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Software Engineer with an active TS/SCI w/Polygraph clearance to design and maintain data workflows using Apache Airflow, Python, and Spark.

The role focuses on secure, scalable, and observable pipelines with collaboration across data engineering and platform teams. The position offers 16 hours of telework per week and is a full-time role based in Maryland, requiring 5 years of software engineering experience and a technical degree.