Principal Data Platform Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $146k - $234k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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Peraton

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise that supports national security initiatives through advanced IT and cyber services. They provide capabilities in areas such as cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, and intelligence. With a commitment to solving complex challenges, Peraton integrates data-driven technologies to ensure mission success for their military and government clients.

📋 Description

• Design and stand up the organization's data and AI platform from the ground up, including architecture, compute, storage, and the lakehouse foundation • Codify the platform as infrastructure-as-code using Terraform • Build CI/CD pipelines promoting work from development through the accredited production environment • Establish data governance, cataloging, lineage, and fine-grained access control • Build and own ingestion, transformation, and pipeline layers that turn raw and synthetic data into governed, analysis-ready data products • Design the platform within FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, and CUI constraints • Define artifact promotion so only signed, validated artifacts enter the accredited environment • Partner with cloud engineering across the infrastructure/security boundary, owning the in-platform layer • Enable the data science and ML team with platform capabilities, governed data, and tooling for models and AI features • Own platform reliability, performance, and cost discipline as usage scales • Set engineering standards, patterns, and documentation for the growing data team • Translate business needs into performant, well-architected data solutions

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required • Must be able to obtain and maintain a T5/SSBI federally adjudicated clearance; active clearance preferred • 8+ years in data engineering / data platform engineering, with demonstrated principal-level ownership • Has stood up a data platform or lakehouse from scratch, owning the architecture and build end to end • Design of batch and, where needed, streaming data pipelines and SQL-based transformations on a lakehouse/Delta foundation • Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and CI/CD for data workloads, including environment promotion from development to production • Platform-level data governance, including cataloging, lineage, and fine-grained access control • Hands-on cloud experience with a major provider; Azure preferred, AWS or GCP considered • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL • Track record partnering across an infrastructure/security boundary and setting technical standards for other engineers • Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills • Minimum 12 years work experience with BS/BA • Preferred: Hands-on Databricks, including Unity Catalog, Databricks Asset Bundles, and MLflow • Preferred: Experience in regulated or accredited environments, including FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, CMMC, CUI handling, or the ATO/RMF process • Preferred: Active security clearance (T5/SSBI or higher) • Preferred: Government or defense contracting experience • Preferred: Familiarity with MLOps patterns, including model registry and model serving • Preferred: Cost governance / FinOps discipline for cloud data platforms • Preferred: Spark / PySpark • Ability to translate business needs into performant, well-architected data solutions • Strong collaboration across technical and non-technical teams • Clear documentation and communication in fast-paced environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential eligibility for overtime • Potential eligibility for shift differential • Potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus • Equal opportunity employment, including disability and protected veterans