Horizon3AI
Federal Senior Data Engineer
$200K–$235K
US, Remote · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in data engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend software engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- US Citizen with/ability to gain and maintain a TS Security clearance.
About the job
Designs and operates a business-critical data platform and pipelines, with a focus on Federal workloads and multi-region deployment.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain data pipelines, including AWS Glue/Spark jobs feeding the warehouse and Tableau.
- Operate and evolve the warehouse, orchestration, BI/reporting, data models, and pipeline observability across multiple regions.
- Define data contracts and architecture across teams, including batch versus streaming, CDC, reprocessing, and multi-tenant trade-offs.
What they ask for
- Experience working within US Government enclaves from FedRAMP through TS cloud environments.
- Fluent SQL and strong data-modeling skills; experience owning production data infrastructure end to end.
- Experience with cloud data platforms/distributed processing, Tableau or comparable BI, SQL and Python, and workflow orchestration tooling.
- US Citizen with/ability to gain and maintain a TS Security clearance.
Nice to have
- Databricks or lakehouse platform experience is relevant to the warehouse strategy; not stated as a requirement.
Pay
$199,750 - $235,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS Glue, Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Tableau, SQL, Python, Apache Airflow
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