Staff Data Engineer - Mission Data Products (DoD)

LMI; Fort Bragg (NC); On-site; USD 128,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a staff-level Data Engineer to build authoritative mission data products for Army program operations, focusing on scalable pipelines, data models, and enterprise data integration.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product designers, and customer stakeholders to design high-quality data systems, enforce security and observability, and mentor engineers while maintaining DoD requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience building production data systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, plus modern data-engineering patterns.
• Experience designing data pipelines and products on Palantir Foundry, Maven, Army Vantage, or comparable enterprise data platform.
• Experience with data modeling, ontology, data quality, and lineage.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals: testing, source control, CI/CD, and monitoring.
• Experience supporting a Department of Defense customer.
• Active Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and implementation of scalable data pipelines and data products.
• Integrate and transform data from multiple Army and enterprise sources.
• Develop data models and ontology to support applications, reporting, and analysis.
• Design for data quality, lineage, security, observability, and long-term maintainability.
• Establish engineering standards covering testing, source control, deployment, and operations.
• Partner with software engineers, product designers, and customer stakeholders.
• Review technical designs, mentor engineers, and help resolve complex data engineering challenges.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Python

SQL

Palantir Foundry

Maven

Army Vantage

CI/CD

PySpark

Job description

LMI is seeking a staff-level Data Engineer to build authoritative mission data products for Army program operations, focusing on scalable pipelines, data models, and enterprise data integration.

You will collaborate with software engineers, product designers, and customer stakeholders to design high-quality data systems, enforce security and observability, and mentor engineers while maintaining DoD requirements.