Senior Data Engineer

Description & Requirements

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Data Engineer to join our team in Ashburn, VA. This is a hybrid-remote position with 2-3 days on-site per week.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will facilitate data-driven decision-making in response to national security threats supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). In this role, you will apply advanced data engineering techniques to large-scale operational datasets, architecting resilient pipelines and analytics solutions to ensure the movement of people, capital, and products remains legal, safe, and secure.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Apply analytical reasoning, problem-solving, investigative techniques, and creative thinking to large-scale datasets supporting mission-critical operational scenarios.
• Develop, implement, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines and data workflows using modern cloud technologies.
• Support database modernization and migration from legacy on-premises environments to cloud platforms.
• Respond to data queries and analytical requests from organizational stakeholders by developing, publishing, and maintaining scheduled and ad hoc reports.
• Research, define, and document data elements, business definitions, and source-system information across core business subject areas.
• Maintain source code repositories and standard version control practices using GitLab.
• Apply a practical understanding of cargo and passenger data systems to support analytical application functionality and frontline targeting operations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Relevant professional experience based on highest level of education:
  • BS/BA with 10+ years of experience
  • MS/MA/MBA with 8+ years of experience
  • PhD/Doctorate with 6+ years of experience
  • AS/AA with 14+ years of experience
  • High School Diploma/GED with 16+ years of experience
• Experience in application development across the full life cycle on Data Warehouse engagements.
• Experience in large-scale (80TB+) and complex data warehousing architecture, design, and implementation or migration.
• Experience administering and tuning relational database management systems (such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL), including advanced SQL development, schema modeling, query performance optimization, and indexing.
• Experience engineering and maintaining scalable data pipelines and Lakehouse solutions using Databricks, including Apache Spark workload tuning and Delta Lake table design.
• Experience deploying and operationalizing scalable ETL/ELT data-integration pipelines and migrating on-premises workloads to cloud environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or equivalent platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret clearance is strongly preferred (to accelerate the CBP background investigation timeline).
• Working knowledge of Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools.
• Experience with business intelligence and data analytics tools, including Microsoft Power BI or Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), to build actionable dashboards and visualizations.
• Experience with the Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, YARN, Hive, Pig) and distributed batch/streaming frameworks such as Spark, Kafka, or Storm.
• Experience using Atlassian collaboration and agile delivery tools, including Jira and Confluence, for sprint tracking and technical documentation.

Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain DHS CBP Suitability.
• Active Top Secret clearance preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, or to communicate with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.

The projected compensation range for this position is $104,200.00-$172,900.00. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, MANTECH invests in its employees beyond just compensation. MANTECH's benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.