Senior Data Engineer

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will support an exciting National Security mission to position NGA to be the enterprise and community GEOINT data provider, improving the way analysts, customers, and end users access, discover, stage, link, produce, re-integrate, and deliver intelligence. You will guide technical decisions, work across mission and engineering teams, and improve cloud-based data platforms.

Work Schedule:

Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and operation of scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes for analytics, reporting, and mission operations
• Design and oversee API connectors and integrations that ingest data securely from internal platforms and external services
• Set engineering approaches for data processing, storage, and database performance to meet scale, reliability, and latency needs
• Establish and improve data quality, validation, monitoring, and governance practices across production data products
• Partner with mission stakeholders, analysts, architects, and product teams to define requirements and guide technical solutions
• Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex data integration, pipeline, and production performance incidents
• Coordinate with security and compliance teams to build required protections and controls into data systems
• Maintain architecture and operational documentation, and mentor engineers through design discussions and code reviews
• Contribute to Agile planning and delivery, helping the team break down work and manage technical dependencies
• Evaluate platform and tooling choices, explain tradeoffs, and recommend improvements to data architecture and engineering practices