Senior IC Data Engineer — Lead for Data Modernization

MITRE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE's National Intelligence Division is seeking an IC Data Engineer at the Lead level to provide senior data engineering, enterprise data architecture, and integration expertise to an IC sponsor. This full-time role will be embedded on-site with the sponsor in McLean VA and will help design, assess, and modernize enterprise data capabilities that enable mission operations, analytics, and AI.

The successful candidate will define data architectures, integration patterns, and interface

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or related roles with a technical bachelor's.
• Experience leading data architecture and enterprise data integration.
• Active Top Secret/SCI w/Poly; US citizen required.

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead data engineer and technical advisor for sponsor priorities and enterprise data modernization.
• Translate mission needs into implementable data engineering requirements, designs, and integration plans.
• Architect and assess enterprise data platforms and end-to-end pipelines for ingestion, transformation, storage, and access across batch and streaming workloads.
• Define and evaluate data models, schemas, APIs, interfaces, data contracts, and integration patterns such as ETL/ELT and event-driven approaches.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelors in CS/related field

Tools

ETL Tools

APIs

Cloud Data Platforms

Job description

MITRE's National Intelligence Division is seeking an IC Data Engineer at the Lead level to provide senior data engineering, enterprise data architecture, and integration expertise to an IC sponsor. This full-time role will be embedded on-site with the sponsor in McLean VA and will help design, assess, and modernize enterprise data capabilities that enable mission operations, analytics, and AI.

The successful candidate will define data architectures, integration patterns, and interface