Dark Wolf Solutions
Senior Data Engineer
$130K–$170K
Chantilly/Herndon, VA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- Chantilly/Herndon, VA
Chantilly, Virginia, United States - Experience
- 4-7+ years of data engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field; Master’s degree preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen; active TS/SCI security clearance with Full-Scope Polygraph required.
About the job
Designs and deploys secure data pipelines, warehouses, streaming solutions, and containerized data services for defense and intelligence missions.
What you'll do
- Build batch and real-time ingestion pipelines, analytical data models, and enterprise data warehouse structures.
- Deploy containerized data services and integrate security scanning and credential management into CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate in Agile teams, review code, estimate user stories, and mentor junior data engineers.
What they ask for
- U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with an active Full-Scope Polygraph.
- Hands-on experience with PySpark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, and dbt.
- Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, Scala, or Java, alongside REST API development.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and managed cloud data platforms in AWS GovCloud or Azure.
Nice to have
- AWS Certified Data Engineer, Databricks Certified Data Engineer, or CKA certification.
- Experience implementing fine-grained ABAC/RBAC access control in classified databases.
Pay
$130,000.00 – $170,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Spark, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Docker, Kubernetes
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