Senior Defense Data Engineer — Intelligence & AI Workflows

IBM; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting seeks a TS/SCI cleared Data Engineer to help build mission-critical intelligence workflows for senior leaders in the Office of the Under Secretary of War. The role emphasizes data wrangling, analysis, and visualization to support decision-making across defense intelligence programs.

Candidates will apply Python, JavaScript, Java, and other tools to deliver analytics, dashboards and decision-support capabilities, collaborating with DoW/IOUSW(I&S) teams.

Qualifications

• US Citizen with active TS/SCI clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in STEM fields.
• 7+ years applying data engineering or software development to analytic tools and data visualization.
• 5+ years programming in Python/JavaScript/Java/VBA/R for data engineering or software development.
• 1+ years using graph databases to deliver analytics.

Responsibilities

• Build mission-critical intelligence workflows to enable decision advantage for senior leaders.
• Provide data-driven analysis to improve intelligence system effectiveness.
• Wrangle, clean, analyze and visualize data for decision-support tools.
• Collaborate with DoW/OUSW(I&S) stakeholders to drive data initiatives.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

Java

VBA

R

Graph databases

Data visualization

Education

Master's Degree

Bachelor's Degree in STEM fields

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

React

Node.js

Job description

IBM Consulting seeks a TS/SCI cleared Data Engineer to help build mission-critical intelligence workflows for senior leaders in the Office of the Under Secretary of War. The role emphasizes data wrangling, analysis, and visualization to support decision-making across defense intelligence programs.

Candidates will apply Python, JavaScript, Java, and other tools to deliver analytics, dashboards and decision-support capabilities, collaborating with DoW/IOUSW(I&S) teams.