Senior Data Engineer – Design, Architecture

🕒 June 2

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K2United

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🔒 Cybersecurity

Consulting • Healthcare • Cybersecurity

K2United houses K2Share and CareerSafe, two brands dedicated to creating impactful solutions for their clients' success. K2Share specializes in cybersecurity consulting, offering services related to information assurance, cyber risk management, and security awareness training. CareerSafe excels in online OSHA training and career-focused education. Founded by Dr. Larry Teverbaugh, K2United emphasizes innovation and a positive work environment, aiming to unite its dual brands under a shared purpose.

📋 Description

• The Senior Data Engineer will own the data engineering function on K2Share's Federal Team, partnering with technical and product leadership to deliver data products that support mission-critical decision-making for federal agency clients. • Design and build relational data layers that handle OSCAL and other structured compliance data - including ingestion, validation, transformation, and export workflows that preserve fidelity to source schemas across the full data lifecycle • Design and maintain data models that support governance, risk, compliance, scoring, and reporting workflows for federal cybersecurity programs, with OSCAL as the connective layer across them - including long-term retention and archival policies that align with federal recordkeeping and audit requirements • Design and build big-data processing pipelines on Databricks (PySpark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) that normalize cybersecurity data from across federal agency environments and produce analytical layers for trend analysis, executive reporting, and cross-program insights • Optimize data systems for performance and cost - identifying I/O and compute bottlenecks, scaling compute responsibly, and balancing throughput against the cost discipline federal engagements require • Architect, build and maintain AWS data infrastructure that meets federal security and operational requirements - working across services such as S3, Bedrock, Lambda, Fargate, and EC2 in support of compliance and analytical workloads • Design and implement audit-ready data primitives - change capture, access controls, validation, and lineage — that support agency reporting and continuous monitoring needs • Lead AI-first development and responsible AI deployment on the data team - using AI development tools as a standard part of the engineering loop, prototyping AI-assisted compliance workflows, and designing the production AI systems behind them (RAG architectures, vector store management, conversational agents, prompt and output guardrails, and evaluation pipelines), in alignment with federal AI governance guidance (OMB, NIST AI RMF) • Engage with federal agency stakeholders and internal teams during requirement discovery, delivery, and ongoing support — translating compliance needs into data products and customer feedback into improvements

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of production data engineering experience, with a track record of designing and owning data systems end-to-end • Strong relational database expertise with PostgreSQL or equivalent — schema design at scale, indexing and partitioning strategy, access control, and patterns for handling semi-structured data including JSON. • Strong system design and architecture instincts - able to translate business and compliance requirements into data system designs, document tradeoffs, and lead design reviews with technical and non-technical stakeholders. • 3+ years of big-data processing on Databricks, Spark, or equivalent — PySpark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and medallion (bronze/silver/gold) architecture patterns • Strong AWS experience including S3, Bedrock, Lambda, Fargate, EC2, relational database services, change-data-capture services, serverless compute, IAM, and KMS — ideally in GovCloud or other regulated-cloud environments • Strong Python development skills, including data manipulation libraries such as pandas, for ETL, transformation, and analytical workflows • Proficient with Git and modern version-control practices — branching strategies, code review discipline, and collaborative workflows in a team setting • Experience working with structured external schemas - OSCAL or similar standards-based data — including the discipline of preserving fidelity through transformation • Demonstrated focus on data system optimization - identifying I/O bottlenecks, remediating performance issues, balancing cost and performance, and scaling compute responsibly • Schema evolution discipline - migration strategy, backward compatibility, change-data-capture-friendly design, and the operational rigor of running production schemas under change control • Experience with async data processing patterns — task queues, message-based pipelines, idempotent task design • Active use of AI development tools as a routine part of the engineering workflow, with informed views on where they accelerate and where they need supervision • Familiarity with responsible AI deployment patterns — RAG architectures, vector databases, embedding management, prompt and output guardrails, and evaluation methods • Working knowledge of federal cybersecurity frameworks: FISMA, NIST RMF, NIST SP 800-53, NIST CSF • Demonstrated ability to interpret regulatory and policy guidance and translate it into product or data-product requirements • Comfort working across ambiguous, fast-moving federal programs with minimal supervision and strong collaborative instincts

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions • Low-cost, comprehensive medical benefits for employees and their families • Flexibility for those needing time off for jury duty, voting, military leave, etc. • Paid time off • Wellness stipend program (includes fitness reimbursement program) • Tuition stipend • Casual dress work environment • Technical training and certifications as required • Any of our CareerSafe Online training courses for free to employees and their immediate family