Senior Data Solutions Engineer — Remote & Governance

Aretum, Llc; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 115,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Retirement Plan (401k)

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Family Leave

Disability (Short & Long-Term)

Training & Development

Job summary

Aretum is seeking a Senior Data Solution Engineer to design data governance, tagging, and metadata standards and to work with medallion architecture.

You will help determine scalability, debt, and long-term viability while handling sensitive data under federal-contract requirements. This remote role may involve occasional travel and requires U.S. work authorization and compliance with safeguarding standards.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree with at least 6 years' Databricks/UCI production experience.
• Experience designing data governance, tagging, and metadata standards.
• Deep understanding of medallion architecture and data classification.
• Experience implementing column masking, row-level security, and dynamic access controls.
• Strong SQL and Spark; able to define pipelines declaratively (e.g., YAML).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data management and governance within Databricks and Unity Catalog.
• Evaluate scalability, maintainability, and performance of solutions.
• Develop data governance tagging, meta standards, and classification frameworks.
• Enforce governance across Bronze to Gold medallion layers as data evolves.
• Implement column masking, row-level security, and dynamic access controls.
• Develop and optimize data pipelines using SQL and Spark in production.
• Collaborate with data owners, security stakeholders, and business partners.

Skills

SQL

Spark

Data governance

Medallion architecture

Security controls

YAML

Education

BS/BA degree

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Job description

Aretum is seeking a Senior Data Solution Engineer to design data governance, tagging, and metadata standards and to work with medallion architecture.

You will help determine scalability, debt, and long-term viability while handling sensitive data under federal-contract requirements. This remote role may involve occasional travel and requires U.S. work authorization and compliance with safeguarding standards.