TS/SCI Senior Data Engineer & Technical Lead

IAMUS Consulting; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) and financial planning support

Paid time off and holidays

Professional development and tuition‑a

Job summary

IAMUS Consulting is seeking a Senior Data Engineer / Technical Lead to support mission-critical cyber and network operations. You will design, build, and optimize data pipelines transforming complex, high-volume data into actionable intelligence for national security.

This role combines hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities, guiding technical direction, mentoring engineers, and shaping data practices across the program.

Qualifications

• 14+ years in data engineering, software engineering, or related technical fields.
• ETL pipelines and data ingestion frameworks experience.
• Hands-on with Kafka, NiFi, AWS (S3, SQS).
• Java and/or Python, unit/integration testing.
• Knowledge of data formats (JSON, XML, SQL schemas).
• Data pipelines, system performance, and dataflow troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale data ingestion pipelines for large datasets.
• Integrate new data sources and enhance data flows for performance and reliability.
• Lead data integrity, validation, monitoring, and troubleshooting efforts.
• Enable timely, accurate, accessible data for analysis for mission partners.
• Decompose and solve complex system and dataflow challenges across distributed environments.
• Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders across mission teams.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers.
• Drive best practices across ETL development, data modeling, and system architecture.

Skills

ETL pipelines

Data ingestion

Data integrity

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Agile

Troubleshooting

Education

Degree optional/considered

Tools

Kafka

Apache NiFi

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Airflow

Mage AI

GitLab

Maven

Job description

IAMUS Consulting is seeking a Senior Data Engineer / Technical Lead to support mission-critical cyber and network operations. You will design, build, and optimize data pipelines transforming complex, high-volume data into actionable intelligence for national security.

This role combines hands-on engineering with leadership responsibilities, guiding technical direction, mentoring engineers, and shaping data practices across the program.