Senior Data Engineer

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Senior Data Engineer leading Microsoft Fabric pipelines, security, automation, and medallion architectures. Supporting Rackner’s mission-critical software systems for U.S. government agencies.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design, development, and optimization of enterprise data ingestion pipelines, transformation logic, and data platform components within Microsoft Fabric
  • Design and implement scalable ETL and ELT architectures for structured and semi-structured enterprise data
  • Configure, administer, and maintain Microsoft Fabric tenants, workspaces, capacities, security, and governance
  • Implement Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion architecture layers
  • Develop transformation processes with schema validation, cleansing, normalization, enrichment, and reconciliation
  • Establish data quality monitoring, validation controls, automated testing, and alerting
  • Design environment separation across development, test, staging, and production
  • Build and maintain CI/CD deployment pipelines for data platform artifacts
  • Implement infrastructure-as-code for repeatable, version-controlled deployments
  • Develop and optimize Spark, PySpark, SQL, and related data-processing workloads
  • Configure and maintain encryption, RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID integration, Privileged Identity Management, and least-privilege controls
  • Support secure integration with enterprise source systems and hybrid on-premises/cloud connectivity
  • Troubleshoot and optimize pipeline, platform, performance, connectivity, and data-quality issues
  • Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning; develop and test rollback, recovery, and restoration procedures
  • Establish reusable engineering patterns, standards, and technical documentation
  • Collaborate with architects, governance specialists, cybersecurity teams, application teams, and source-system owners
  • Participate in architecture reviews and recommend modernization and integration solutions
  • Mentor Data Engineers and Associate Data Engineers; review implementations and provide technical guidance
  • Provide senior-level problem-solving support and support knowledge transfer and operational transition

Requirements:

  • Significant experience designing and implementing enterprise data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud-based data platforms
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric
  • Experience administering or configuring enterprise cloud data environments
  • Strong experience with Azure Data Factory or comparable data integration technologies
  • Strong SQL proficiency
  • Experience with Spark and PySpark for large-scale data processing and transformation
  • Experience implementing enterprise ETL/ELT frameworks
  • Experience designing and implementing medallion architectures using Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers
  • Experience with schema validation, data cleansing, normalization, reconciliation, and data quality controls
  • Experience developing CI/CD pipelines for data platform deployments
  • Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code
  • Experience with source control, automated deployment, and environment promotion processes
  • Understanding of cloud security principles, including RBAC, identity integration, encryption, and least-privilege access
  • Experience troubleshooting complex data pipeline, platform, and integration issues
  • Experience supporting production data environments with availability, reliability, and performance requirements
  • Strong technical documentation and communication skills
  • Experience mentoring or providing technical leadership to other engineers
  • Active Secret clearance

Benefits:

  • Company-supported certifications aligned to current and future program work, including cloud, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, security, AI/ML, project management, and related technical areas
  • Clear advancement tracks and future leadership opportunities
  • 401(k) with 100% match up to 6%
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
  • Generous PTO and paid holidays
  • Home-office equipment plan and remote work support
  • Fitness and wellness reimbursement
  • Weekly pay schedule
  • Modern perks, including team events