Principal Data Engineer - Active SC required
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Overview
In this role you will design and run scalable, secure data platforms within a Secure Digital Platform environment. You will lead enterprise data pipelines and data products, ensuring quality, security, and compliance. You will mentor data engineering teams and champion DataOps/DevOps to improve deployment and reliability. You will collaborate across functions to translate data needs into robust solutions, including cloud migration efforts. This is a high-impact, long-term contract in a defence-focused program requiring active SC clearance.
Responsibilities- Design and maintain scalable, secure data architectures and platforms
- Lead development of enterprise data pipelines, data integration frameworks, and data products
- Establish and enforce data engineering standards and best practices
- Implement DataOps and DevOps to boost deployment efficiency and reliability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to capture data requirements and deliver solutions
- Ensure data quality, lineage, security, and compliance across data assets
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to data engineering teams
- Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives for data platforms and services
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
- Experience in data engineering, software engineering, or data platform development
- Proven design and implementation of enterprise-scale data solutions
- Extensive experience with cloud data platforms (Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud)
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, Spark, and modern data processing frameworks
- Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and streaming data solutions
- Practical experience with DataOps, DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code
- Expertise in data modelling, data warehousing, and master data management
- Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks
- Active SC clearance
- leadership
- collaboration
- communication
- Azure
- AWS
- Google Cloud