Sr. Data Engineer

Spatial Front, Inc; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Spatial Front, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to support our modernization team on federal IT modernization projects.

The role focuses on migrating from Oracle to open-source databases (Postgres), with data modeling, schema improvements, and ETL automation. The position is remote with occasional customer meetings; US citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance are required. A Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, with 5+ years in SQL development and 4+ years in PostgreSQL

Qualifications

• US Citizenship with ability to obtain Public Trust clearance
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification or above is desired
• SQL Developer (5+ years)
• Postgres (4+ years)
• Oracle DB (3+ years)
• DB Administration (4+ years)
• Developer skills (5+ years)

Responsibilities

• Embedded with App teams in a Data Developer function, converting PL/SQL to new code for applications
• Assist with Schema/Model improvements and data architecture tasks
• Provide ETL assistance/automation as needed within the team

Skills

SQL Development

PostgreSQL

Oracle DB

Database Administration

Software Development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Spatial Front, Inc. (SFI) is seeking an Sr. Data Engineer to support our growing modernization team. SFI was recently awarded the 2025 USA Today National Top Places to Work award and the 2025 Washington Post Top Workplaces.

Project Overview

Support the customer's missions including application development, rapid prototyping, standards development, and research and development of new technologies. This position requires database administration, data engineering and data architecture skills. Our customer is migrating applications away from Oracle RDBMS to open-source DBs like Postgres. This position will support these migrations through identification of the target data architecture and hands-on implementation of the migration. Database administration support is also expected on an as-needed basis.

Work Location

Remote with ability to be available for customer meetings.

Summary Of Major Job Functions

• Assist app teams in converting existing PL/SQL (and other code) away from Oracle into Postgres (and potentially other databases).
• These projects include support to app teams in improving existing data models and data structures on an as-needed basis.

Responsibilities

• This position will be embedded with App teams in a Data Developer function, assisting with converting the PL/SQL procedures/functions to new code for the applications.
• It will eventually include some "Data Engineering/Architecture" job functions, assisting with Schema/Model improvements.
• This role will assist with other ETL assistance/automation needs as they arise in the team.

Requirements

• US Citizenship with ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification or above is desired
• SQL Developer (5+ years)
• Postgres (4+ years)
• Oracle DB (3+ years)
• DB Administration (4+ years)
• Developer skills (5+ years)

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale federal government IT modernization projects is highly desirable.
• Experience with Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) environments and large-scale data integration initiatives.

Additional Information

• In order to meet the clearance requirements for this opportunity, candidates must be US Citizen.
• All candidates will be subject to a complete background check to include, but not limited to Criminal History, Education Verification, Professional Certification Verification, Verification of Previous Employment and Credit History.
• Public Trust background investigations can take approximately four to eight weeks and requires fingerprinting.

Other Information

• The salary for this position is $130,000 - $150,000 annually
• For information on SFI's benefits please visit http://www.spatialfront.com/pages/career.html
• This is a full-time W2 position.
• Please no agencies, third parties, or corp-to-corp.
• Spatial Front Inc. is an Equal-opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Spatial Front Inc. participates in E-Verify.

Salary Description

$130,000 - $150,000