Senior Data Platform Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $112k - $179k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 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

• Build, test, and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline code • Turn raw and synthetic data into governed, analysis-ready data products • Extend the platform following the architecture, patterns, and standards set by the lead platform engineer • Contribute to infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines promoting work into the accredited production environment • Monitor data quality, pipeline reliability, and performance • Troubleshoot and resolve issues • Apply data governance, cataloging, and access-control practices • Support the data science and ML team with governed datasets and tooling • Operate within FedRAMP Moderate, NIST 800-171, and CUI constraints • Collaborate closely with the engineering team • Maintain clear documentation of pipelines and processes

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required • Must be able to obtain and maintain a T5/SSBI federally adjudicated clearance; active clearance preferred • 4 years building and maintaining production data pipelines • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL • Hands-on ETL / data pipeline development • Sound analytical data modeling • Working familiarity with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP fine) • Familiarity with version control and CI/CD workflows • Solid analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills • 5 years work experience with BS/BA • Databricks experience or comparable lakehouse stack (Spark, Delta, dbt, Snowflake) preferred • Exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD for data workloads preferred • Experience in regulated or accredited environments preferred • Active security clearance preferred • Government or defense contracting experience preferred • Familiarity with data governance/cataloging tooling and orchestration tools preferred • Dependable, self-directed execution with minimal oversight • Strong collaboration across technical and non-technical teams • Clear documentation and knowledge-sharing • Eagerness to grow ownership and learn the compliance environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay